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heartattack

heartattack is the alternative form of heart attack.

Meaning of heart attack

Noun

heart attack (plural heart attacks)

  1. An acute myocardial infarction, sometimes fatal, caused by the sudden occurrence of coronary thrombosis, which obstructs the blood supply to the heart and leads to necrosis of heart muscle tissue.
    • Before kick-off, a section of Chelsea's support sadly let themselves and their club down by noisily interrupting the silence held in memory of the Hillsborough disaster and for Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini, who collapsed and died after suffering a heart attack during a Serie B game on...2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC
  2. (figuratively) A major fright.
    • She'll have a heart attack when she sees that!
  3. (figuratively) Death or failure.
    • My computer had a heart attack when I tried to get it to run that program.

Forms of heartattack

pluralheartattacks

Questions about heartattack

What is heartattack the alternative form of?
Heartattack is the alternative form of heart attack.

Words near heartattack in the dictionary

  1. heartaching
  2. heartachingly
  3. heartachy
  4. heartake
  5. heartakes
  6. heartattack
  7. heartbalm
  8. heartbalms
  9. heartbeat
  10. heartbeat bill
  11. heartbeat bills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heartattack (page history and authors); heart attack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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