your heart goes out to sb
Definition
› If your heart goes out to someone who is in trouble, you feel sympathy for them: Our hearts go out to the families of the victims of this terrible tragedy.Sympathy and compassion
(Definition of your heart goes out to sb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a good listener idiom
- a shoulder to cry on idiom
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- better luck next time idiom
- bleeding heart noun
- fellow feeling noun
- go out to sb phrasal verb
- hard luck! idiom
- hard/tough cheese! idiom
- heartrending adjective
- pitiful adjective
- pity noun
- pity verb
- poor adjective (DESERVING SYMPATHY)
- relate to sb phrasal verb
- sympathetic adjective (UNDERSTANDING)
- sympathize verb (UNDERSTAND)
- sympathy noun (UNDERSTANDING)
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