Word Meanings - HEARTBROKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.

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• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• GRIEVABLE
  Lamentable.
• OVERCOMER
  One who overcomes.
• SORROWLESS
  Free from sorrow.
• CRUSH
  LL. cruscire, prob. of Ger. origin, from a derivative of the word seen in Goth. kruistan to gnash; akin to Sw. krysta to squeeze, Dan. 1. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of
• GRIEVOUS
  1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful. The famine was grievous in the land. Gen. xii. 10. The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight. Gen. xxi 11. 2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous;
• SORROWFUL
  1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. "This sorrowful prisoner." Chaucer. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Matt. xxvi. 38. 2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous;
• GRIEVANCER
  One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint. Petition . . . against the bishops as grand grievancers. Fuller.
• OVERCOME
  1. To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle. This wretched woman overcome Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been. Spenser. 2. To overflow; to surcharge. J. Philips. 3. To come or pass over;
• GRIEVANCE
  1. A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury. 2. Grieving; grief; affliction. The . . . grievance of a mind unreasonably
• CRUSHER
  One who, or that which, crushes. Crusher gauge, an instrument for measuring the explosive force of gunpowder, etc., by its effect in compressing a piece of metal.
• DEEPLY
  1. At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply. 2. Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics. He had deeply offended both his nobles and people. Bacon. He
• GRIEVE; GREEVE
  A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.
• GRIEVER
  One who, or that which, grieves.
• GRIEVING
  Sad; sorrowful; causing grief. -- n.
• CRUSHING
  That crushes; overwhelming. "The blow must be quick and crushing." Macualay.
• AGGRIEVANCE
  Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
• ENGRIEVE
  To grieve. Spenser.
• OVERSORROW
  To grieve or afflict to excess. Milton.
• SEEK-SORROW
  One who contrives to give himself vexation. Sir P. Sidney.
• INGRIEVE
  To render more grievous; to aggravate. Sir P. Sidney.
• UNSORROWED
  Not sorrowed for; unlamented. Beau. & Fl.