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heart-wrenching
[ hahrt ren-ching ]
adjective
- causing or involving great sadness or distress; heartbreaking:
The accounts of their persecution are heart-wrenching.
Other Word Forms
- -ɰԳ·Բ· adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of heart-wrenching1
Example Sentences
It's gross, and it's coming at a high cost for the families involved and the larger community, ratcheting up racial tensions and sowing paranoia, all over a case that is already heart-wrenching enough.
My punishment as a teenager was “You can’t go skating” and that was heart-wrenching right there.
Just three weeks after his release, Mr Sharabi gave a heart-wrenching TV interview to Israel's Channel 12 TV.
These include episodes Mantle is proud of, like the award-winning segment in which women called in with their heart-wrenching personal stories of abortion or moments when guests let their guard down.
Laura said expecting a couple to agree to this was "cruel and heart-wrenching".
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