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单词 heart-rending
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heart-rending

also heartrending
adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
You use heart-rending to describe something that causes you to feel great sadness and pity.
...heart-rending pictures of refugees.
I heard the most heartrending screams and moans.
Synonyms: moving, sad, distressing, affecting More Synonyms of heart-rending

heart-rending in British English

adjective
causing great mental pain and sorrow
Derived forms
heart-rendingly (ˈheart-ˌrendingly)
adverb

heart-rending in American English

(ˈhɑrtˌrɛndɪŋ)
adjective
causing much grief or mental anguish
Derived forms
heart-rendingly (ˈheart-ˌrendingly)
adverb

Examples of 'heart-rending' in a sentence
heart-rending

There are no heart-rending scenes as she is given her diagnosis and no five stages of grief.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He sent us heart-rending letters telling us how he had found a secluded corner in the grounds where he could cry undetected.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Her book is sweetly sentimental, and full of heart-rending scenes of separation and reunion.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The film is being billed as a heart-rending love story and will be shot in Liverpool.
The Sun (2015)
Fast forward a few days, and another heart-rending story about doomed youth.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It is also a heart-rending account of the searing, slow dissolution of a marriage.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The trench and battle scenes were heart-rending and as authentic as any I have seen.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
An eye-opening and heart-rending story.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
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