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heartbreakings

heartbreakings is the plural of heartbreaking.

Meaning of heartbreaking

Noun

heartbreaking (plural heartbreakings)

  1. The breaking of a heart; great grief, anguish or distress.
    • One could argue that Eliot's "great heartbreakings" were the overt physical signs of the inner psychological transformations achieved through brainwashing, cultural attack, and epidemic mortality.1999, Karen Gayton Swisher, John Tippeconnic, Next Steps: Research and Practice to Advance Indian Education, page 17

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Questions about heartbreakings

What is heartbreakings the plural of?
Heartbreakings is the plural of heartbreaking.

Words near heartbreakings in the dictionary

  1. heartbreakers
  2. heartbreakin'
  3. heartbreaking
  4. heartbreakingly
  5. heartbreakingness
  6. heartbreakings
  7. heartbreaks
  8. heartbroke
  9. heartbroken
  10. heartbrokenly
  11. heartbrokenness

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