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Meaning of "heart-rending" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HEART-RENDING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEART-RENDING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heart-Rending is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HEART-RENDING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

heart-rending

Grief

Grief is a multifaceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something to which a bond was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, spiritual, and philosophical dimensions. While the terms are often used interchangeably, bereavement refers to the state of loss, and grief is the reaction to loss. Grief is a natural response to loss. It is the emotional suffering one feels when something or someone the individual loves is taken away. Grief is also a reaction to any loss. The grief associated with death is familiar to most people, but individuals grieve in connection with a variety of losses throughout their lives, such as unemployment, ill health or the end of a relationship. Loss can be categorized as either physical or abstract, the physical loss being related to something that the individual can touch or measure, such as losing a spouse through death, while other types of loss are abstract, and relate to aspects of a person’s social interactions.

Definition of heart-rending in the English dictionary

The definition of heart-rending in the dictionary is causing great mental pain and sorrow.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEART-RENDING

heart problem
heart rate
heart starter
heart surgeon
heart surgery
heart transplant
heart trouble
heart urchin
heart-lung machine
heart-rate monitor
heart-rendingly
heart-searching
heart-shaped
heart-throb
heart-to-heart
heart-warming
heart-water
heart-whole
heart-wholeness
heartache

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEART-RENDING

according
ascending
binding
branding
corresponding
defending
demanding
descending
ending
expanding
finding
funding
landing
lending
mending
outstanding
pending
spending
standing
surrounding
understanding

Synonyms and antonyms of heart-rending in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HEART-RENDING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «heart-rending» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of heart-rending

Translation of «heart-rending» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HEART-RENDING

Find out the translation of heart-rending to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of heart-rending from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «heart-rending» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

心脏,裂开
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desgarrador
570 millions of speakers

English

heart-rending
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दिल प्रतिपादन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تدمى القلب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

истошный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

de cortar o coração
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হার্ট রেট মনিটর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déchirant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Monitor kadar jantung
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

herzzerreißend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

悲痛
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

감동적
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ati-tingkat monitor
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nao lòng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இதய துடிப்பு மானிட்டர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हृदय गती मॉनिटर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kalp atışı monitörü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

straziante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozdzierające
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нестямний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inima - sfâșietoare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σπαραξικάρδιες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hartverskeurend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

uppslitande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hjerteskjærende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heart-rending

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEART-RENDING»

The term «heart-rending» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.865 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEART-RENDING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about heart-rending

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEART-RENDING»

Discover the use of heart-rending in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heart-rending and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes: A Heart-rending Memoir ...
She tells the story of her early life without an ounce of self-pity and manages to recreate a lost era in which the shadow of the Catholic Church loomed large and if you didn't work, you didn't eat.
Martha Long, 2008
2
Willikind and hys Dinah. An original pathetic and ...
WILLIKIND AND HYS DINAH. 1 AN ORIGINAL PATHETIC AND HEART- RENDING TRAGEDY1311 mm: gal! gums. BY J. . STIRLING coYlgE, Author of The Hope of the Family, Boa: and Cox Married amt Settled, My Wife's Daughter, Bin/cs the ...
Joseph Stirling COYNE, 1854
3
That Or Which, and Why: A Usage Guide for Thoughtful Writers ...
Trager, an editor in the San Francisco Bay area, e- mailed with an unhappy observation about idioms and their mutations: The one I see and hear regularly now that I'm attuned to it is “heart-wrenching,” a mismatch of “heart-rending” and  ...
Evan Jenkins, 2007
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The Prisioners of Malta (Asira'n-e-Malta): The Heart-rending ...
This Book Is A Translation Of `Asira`N-E-Malta` Written By Maulana Mohammad Mian In Urdu Long Back. This Translation In English Has Made The Book Accessible To Non-Urdu Knowing Readers.
Sayyid Muḥammad Miyān̲, 2005
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The Reformed Grammar Or Philolsophical Test of English ...
When we see, we must see something, and it is that thing which we see, that renders the act of seeing pleasant, unpleasant, melancholy, or heart-rending, etc. : as, " To see the sun is pleasant;" " to see your property destroyed is unpleasant;  ...
Gerald Murray, 1847
6
God for Us: An Analysis and Assessment of Dutch Reformed ...
This unnerves anyone who preaches, especially after one has read this moving and heart-rending work of Johan Cilliers: the result of an in-depth analysis of the under-ground, the ideological foundation - one could say the heart – of a number  ...
Johan Cilliers, 2006
7
Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy: Tales of ...
Tales of Shipwreck and Disaster, with Accounts of Providential Escapes and Heart-Rending Fatalities Anonymous. Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy Tales of Shipwreck and Disaster, with Accounts of Provia'ential Escapes ana' ...
Anonymous, 2012
8
Birth of a Mission
Chapter. 22. LEPROSY: A. HEART-RENDING. DISCOVERY. Eager to make friends among the few Europeans in the area, I find their modest mission cottage on the periphery of the small town that serves as headquarters for the District ...
Oliver L. Jacques, 2006
9
Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy: A Weird ...
... PART OF THE CENTURY TO THE PRESENT TIME WITH ACCOUNTS OF PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPES AND HEART-RENDING FATALITIES ANONYMOUS Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy:Aweird seriesof tales ofshipwreck.
Anonymous
10
Oxford Thesaurus of English
adjective a heart-rending cry of torment: distressing, upsetting, disturbing, heartbreaking, sad, tragic, painful, saddening, traumatic, agonizing, desolate, harrowing, excruciating; pitiful, piteous, poignant, plaintive, affecting, moving, tear -jerking; ...
Maurice Waite, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEART-RENDING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term heart-rending is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Australians living overseas: 10 lessons you'll learn
You'll come home with all of these amazing stories of life overseas, all of these hilarious anecdotes, all of these heart-rending tales of hardship, ... «Bendigo Advertiser, Jul 15»
2
This is one of the best books of 2015, but I'm not sure you should …
Her passing is heart-rending, but it also serves as motivation for her sisters. Jo, who has sublimated her longings for family into Beth's care, ... «Kane County Chronicle, Jul 15»
3
Steppenwolf Tackles Faith and Suffering in Grand Concourse
But it's the final scenes of Grand Concourse that make it so heart-rending and unique, that add punctuation marks to everything that came ... «Gapers Block, Jul 15»
4
Opposition blames Naidu
Observing that the tragedy was heart-rending, he said when reviews were conducted in the past few days with the Chief Minister himself ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
5
Rape sentences must encourage victims to break their silence
His victim did not have to endure the harrowing experience of the court process and she delivered a very heart-rending victim impact statement, ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
6
This Campaign Wants You to Make a Child Cry
Is there anything more heart-rending than the wail of a small child? The beginning of this spot for French charity Doctors of the World (Medecins ... «Creativity, Jul 15»
7
Heartbreaking video shows mum tearfully explaining why she broke …
This is the heart-rending moment a tearful mum of two explains how she finally found the courage to spilt up from their allegedly violent father. «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Mother asks for help recovering daughter taken to Russia
“It's a heart-rending situation,” Blumenthal said, “This child really has been kidnapped. And Russia is essentially a lawless country. But we are ... «Greenwich Time, Jul 15»
9
Eight maths problems that writers must solve
Option 3: E, a 74-old audience member who tells everyone the heart-rending story of his gout and resultant complications. Problem 4. A writer ... «Scroll.in, Jul 15»
10
How to bury a case of negligent driving
These are some tragic consequences of reckless driving across the state, but perhaps not heart-rending enough to jolt police in Ranchi into ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Jul 15»

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