heartbreak

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

heartbreak
    n 1: intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by
         death) [syn: {grief}, {heartache}, {heartbreak},
         {brokenheartedness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Heartbreak \Heart"break`\ (-br[=a]k`), n.
   Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief. --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

27 Moby Thesaurus words for "heartbreak":
      aching heart, affliction, agonizingness, agony, anguish, bale,
      bleeding heart, broken heart, brokenheartedness, care,
      desolateness, desolation, dole, excruciatingness, excruciation,
      grief, heartache, heartbrokenness, heartsickness, heartsoreness,
      regret, rue, torment, tormentingness, torture, torturousness,
      woe

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