heart-breaking

See also: heartbreaking

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

heart-breaking (comparative more heart-breaking, superlative most heart-breaking)

1. (idiomatic) That causes extreme sorrow or grief.

Derived terms

• heart-breakingly
• heart-breakingness

Related terms

• break someone's heart

Translations

that causes extreme sorrow or grief

• Finnish: sydäntäsärkevä (fi)
• French: déchirant (fr)
• Greek: σπαραξικάρδιος (el) (sparaxikárdios)
• Irish: croíbhriste
• Italian: straziante (it)
• Maori: hanga aroha
• Norwegian:

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• Russian: душераздира́ющий (ru) (dušerazdirájuščij) (lit: soul-rending)
• Spanish: desgarrador (es), devastador (es), desolador