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heartaches

heartaches is the plural of heartache.

Meaning of heartache

Noun

heartache (countable and uncountable, plural heartaches)

  1. Emotional distress or pain, often caused by a loved one or their absence.
    • […]: to dye, to ſleepe, / No more; and by a ſleepe, to ſay we end / The Heart-ake, and the thouſand Naturall ſhockes / That Fleſh is heyre too?c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Questions about heartaches

What is heartaches the plural of?
Heartaches is the plural of heartache.

Words near heartaches in the dictionary

  1. heart-warming
  2. heart-whole
  3. heart-wrenching
  4. heart-wrenchingly
  5. heartache
  6. heartaches
  7. heartachey
  8. heartaching
  9. heartachingly
  10. heartachy
  11. heartake

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