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break sb's heart
Definition
B2 to make someone who loves you very sad, usually by telling them you have stopped loving them: He's broken a lot of girls' hearts.Making people sad, shocked and upsetDisappointing yourself and others B2 If an event or situation breaks your heart, it makes you feel very sad: She really broke her mother's heart when she left home.Making people sad, shocked and upset
(Definition of break sb's heart from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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SMART Thesaurus: Disappointing yourself and others
Synonyms and related words:
- anticlimax noun
- be one in the eye for sb idiom
- chagrin noun
- comedown noun
- damp squib noun
- disappointment noun
- dishearten verb
- dishonour verb
- disillusion verb
- droop verb
- fail verb (NOT HELP)
- let the side down idiom
- letdown noun
- non-event noun
- not be all it's cracked up to be idiom
- pity noun
- sick as a parrot idiom
- swizz noun
- the bubble bursts idiom
- turn your back on sb idiom
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