BREAK SOMEONE'S HEART

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody

Example:

The young man broke the girl's heart when he told her was going to marry her best friend

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "break someone's heart" is one way to...):

anguish; hurt; pain (cause emotional anguish or make miserable)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

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