heartrending

heartrending adjective: that causes great grief, anguish or distress.

Adjective

heartrending (comparative more heartrending, superlative most heartrending)

That causes great grief, anguish or distress.
- Near-synonyms: heartbreaking, heartwrenching
- [T]he old man, who appeared to be an ardent fisherman, told me of the large trout he caught in the neighbourhood thirty years ago, when he came here from Gudbrandsdale, and made the most heartrending complaints of the decrease of fish and increase of saw-dust, just as Sir Humphry Davy makes in his...1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 154
Synonyms:

heartbreaking, heartwrenching
That elicits deep sympathy.
- I am suddenly assaulted by the most heartrending puppy-dog eyes I've ever seen as Emi pouts.
- Oh, Marilla, it was heartrending. Mr. Phillips made such a beautiful farewell speech beginning, ‘The time has come for us to part.’ It was very affecting. And he had tears in his eyes too, Marilla.1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC

இதயத்தைப் பிளக்கும், வேதனைப்படுத்து, இரக்கத்தை ஏற்படுத்தும்

دردناک, دل گداز, دلخراش

It wavered an instant—then there was a heartrending crash—and the canary-coloured cart, their pride and their joy, lay on its side in the ditch, an irredeemable wreck.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
“If I must die, I beg it be done quickly,” reads one heartrending scrawl, signed by a man known only as Anthony.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave...

From heart + rending.

What does heartrending mean?: Heartrending means that causes great grief, anguish or distress.
What is heartrending in Tamil?: Heartrending in Tamil is இதயத்தைப் பிளக்கும், வேதனைப்படுத்து, இரக்கத்தை ஏற்படுத்தும். See Heartrending meaning in Tamil.
How do you use heartrending in a sentence?: It wavered an instant—then there was a heartrending crash—and the canary-coloured cart, their pride and their joy, lay on its side in the ditch, an irredeemable wreck.
What part of speech is heartrending?: Heartrending is an adjective.

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