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heart-rendingly

heart-rendingly adverb: in a heart-rending manner.

Adverb

heart-rendingly (comparative more heart-rendingly, superlative most heart-rendingly)

  1. In a heart-rending manner.

Forms of heart-rendingly

comparativemore heart-rendingly
superlativemost heart-rendingly

Origin of heart-rendingly

From heart-rending + -ly.

Questions about heart-rendingly

What does heart-rendingly mean?
Heart-rendingly means in a heart-rending manner.
What part of speech is heart-rendingly?
Heart-rendingly is an adverb.

Words near heart-rendingly in the dictionary

  1. heart-lung machine
  2. heart-lung machines
  3. heart-pounding
  4. heart-poundingly
  5. heart-rending
  6. heart-rendingly
  7. heart-searching
  8. heart-service
  9. heart-shaped
  10. heart-shattering
  11. heart-spent

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