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Idiom

broken hearted

Meaning

Of a person, that has a broken heart.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“He is broken hearted after his girlfriend left him.”

“She felt completely broken hearted when she had to say goodbye to her best friend at the airport.”

“The poet wrote verses about being broken hearted, capturing the profound sense of loss that follows the end of a long-term relationship.”

Examples

simple

“He is broken hearted after his girlfriend left him.”

contextual

“She felt completely broken hearted when she had to say goodbye to her best friend at the airport.”

complex

“The poet wrote verses about being broken hearted, capturing the profound sense of loss that follows the end of a long-term relationship.”

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