heart-spent

English

Adjective

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

1. Alternative form of heartspent
   • 1885, Mrs. Frank Leslie, Ellery Sedgwick, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly - Volume 19, page 58:

     So many waves have not the ocean floods, As my rent heart hath torments all the night And heart-spent sighs when Phoebus brings the light.

   • 2004, Opus - Volumes 28-29, page 9:

     ... others played hide and seek with ornaments, or stumbled, heart-spent, over a catch in her throat.

   • 2014, Catherine Kaufman, Beloved Healer, →ISBN:

     Then in a cautious drone, she looked away and began to share her heart-spent regrets.