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heart-spent

heart-spent is the alternative form of heartspent.

Meaning of heartspent

Adjective

heartspent (comparative more heartspent, superlative most heartspent)

  1. Having experienced the strongest emotion possible.
    • On and on we crept, two beggars humping toward the moonlit house, and dreamt that spring came full of heartspent hope, a winter deadman shadowing the unthawed pond.1962, Herbert David Croly, The New Republic - Volume 148, page 22

Forms of heart-spent

comparativemore heart-spent
superlativemost heart-spent

Questions about heart-spent

What is heart-spent the alternative form of?
Heart-spent is the alternative form of heartspent.

Words near heart-spent in the dictionary

  1. heart-rendingly
  2. heart-searching
  3. heart-service
  4. heart-shaped
  5. heart-shattering
  6. heart-spent
  7. heart-splitting
  8. heart-stirring
  9. heart-stopper
  10. heart-stoppers
  11. heart-stopping

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