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heart-wrenching

[ hahrt ren-ching ]

adjective

  1. causing or involving great sadness or distress; heartbreaking:

    The accounts of their persecution are heart-wrenching.



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Other Word Forms

  • 𲹰-ɰԳ·Բ· adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of heart-wrenching1

First recorded in 1835–40; heart ( def ) + wrench ( def ) + -ing 2( def )
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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.

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My punishment as a teenager was “You can’t go skating” and that was heart-wrenching right there.

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Just three weeks after his release, Mr Sharabi gave a heart-wrenching TV interview to Israel's Channel 12 TV.

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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.

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Laura said expecting a couple to agree to this was "cruel and heart-wrenching".

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