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heart-wrenching

heart-wrenching is the alternative form of heartwrenching.

Meaning of heartwrenching

Adjective

heartwrenching (comparative more heartwrenching, superlative most heartwrenching)

  1. Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
    • Near-synonyms: heartbreaking, heartrending

Forms of heart-wrenching

comparativemore heart-wrenching
superlativemost heart-wrenching

Questions about heart-wrenching

What is heart-wrenching the alternative form of?
Heart-wrenching is the alternative form of heartwrenching.

Words near heart-wrenching in the dictionary

  1. heart-tugging
  2. heart-warmer
  3. heart-warmers
  4. heart-warming
  5. heart-whole
  6. heart-wrenching
  7. heart-wrenchingly
  8. heartache
  9. heartaches
  10. heartachey
  11. heartaching

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