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heartspent

heartspent adjective: having experienced the strongest emotion possible.

Adjective

heartspent (comparative more heartspent, superlative most heartspent)

  1. Having experienced the strongest emotion possible.
    • On and on we crept, two beggars humping toward the moonlit house, and dreamt that spring came full of heartspent hope, a winter deadman shadowing the unthawed pond.1962, Herbert David Croly, The New Republic - Volume 148, page 22
    • Pretty soon they were in the sack, and that first time, each new time, their lovemaking was a frenzied and violent offering of hope; heartspent like runners at the tape, they flung themselves forward into a faint of reconciliation— body, saliva, sweat, all—all.1970, James Whitfield Ellison, Descent, page 18

Forms of heartspent

comparativemore heartspent
superlativemost heartspent
alternative formheart-spent

Origin of heartspent

From heart + spent.

Questions about heartspent

What does heartspent mean?
Heartspent means having experienced the strongest emotion possible.
What part of speech is heartspent?
Heartspent is an adjective.

Words near heartspent in the dictionary

  1. heartsomeness
  2. heartsong
  3. heartsongs
  4. heartsore
  5. heartsores
  6. heartspent
  7. heartstopper
  8. heartstoppers
  9. heartstopping
  10. heartstoppingly
  11. heartstricken

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