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—heartrendingly, adv./hahrt"ren'ding/, adj.causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.[1680-90; HEART + RENDING]
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Heartrending — Heart rend ing ( r[e^]nd [i^]ng), a. Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
heartrending — [adj] arousing deep sympathy agonizing, distressing, doleful, excruciating, harrowing, heartbreaking, heartsickening, moving, piteous, pitiful, sad, tear jerking, touching, tragic; concepts 529,537 … New thesaurus
heartrending — adjective causing or marked by grief or anguish a grievous loss a grievous cry her sigh was heartbreaking the heartrending words of Rabin s granddaughter • Syn: ↑grievous, ↑heartbreaking • Sim … Useful english dictionary
heartrending — heart|rend|ing [ˈha:tˌrendıŋ US ˈha:rt ] adj making you feel great pity = ↑heartbreaking ▪ heartrending stories of children being taken from their parents … Dictionary of contemporary English
heartrending — adjective making you feel great pity: heartrending stories of children being taken from their parents … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
heartrending — adjective Date: 1594 heartbreaking 1a • heartrendingly adverb … New Collegiate Dictionary
heartrending — adjective a) That causes great grief, anguish or distress b) That elicits deep sympathy … Wiktionary
heartrending — Synonyms and related words: affecting, afflictive, agonizing, calamitous, consuming, desolating, dire, distressing, doleful, excruciating, grievous, harrowing, heartbreaking, heartsickening, heartwounding, lamentable, moving, pathetic, piteous,… … Moby Thesaurus
heartrending — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. harrowing; heartbreaking. See dejection. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. painful, distressing, agonizing, mournful, touching, moving, grievous, anguishing, saddening, excruciating, soul stirring.… … English dictionary for students
heartrending — see heart rending … English dictionary
