heartrending
Collocations
3ADJ.
full, most
VERB + HEARTRENDING
made
HEARTRENDING + NOUN
grief
Definitions
adj
That causes great grief, anguish or distress.
Near-synonyms: heartbreaking, heartwrenching
[T]he old man, who appeared to be an ardent fisherman, told me of the large trout he caught in the neighbourhood thirty years ago, when he came here from Gudbrandsdale, and made the most heartrending complaints of the decrease of fish and increase of saw-dust, just as Sir Humphry Davy makes in his Salmonia.
That elicits deep sympathy.
I am suddenly assaulted by the most heartrending puppy-dog eyes I've ever seen as Emi pouts.
Oh, Marilla, it was heartrending. Mr. Phillips made such a beautiful farewell speech beginning, ‘The time has come for us to part.’ It was very affecting. And he had tears in his eyes too, Marilla.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — causing or marked by grief or anguish
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Example Bank
4Near-synonyms: heartbreaking, heartwrenching
Wiktionary[T]he old man, who appeared to be an ardent fisherman, told me of the large trout he caught in the neighbourhood thirty years ago, when he came here from Gudbrandsdale, and made the most heartrending
WiktionaryIt wavered an instant—then there was a heartrending crash—and the canary-coloured cart, their pride and their joy, lay on its side in the ditch, an irredeemable wreck.
WiktionaryWhen his wife died he was full of heartrending grief.
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