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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) [syn: grief, heartache, heartbreak, brokenheartedness]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1602 anguish of mind ; sorrow

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. mental anguish or grief.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Heartache Heart"ache`, n. [Cf. AS. heortece.] Sorrow; anguish of mind; mental pang. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also heart-ache(heartaches) Heartache is very great sadness and emotional suffering. ...after suffering the heartache of her divorce from her first husband. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Grief, sorrow, distress, anguish, affliction, woe, bitterness, dole, heartbreak, broken heart, heavy heart, bleeding heart.

Moby Thesaurus

aching heart, affliction, agony, agony of mind, anguish, bale, bitterness, bleeding heart, broken heart, brokenheartedness, care, crushing, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, dole, extremity, grief, heartbreak, heartbrokenness, heartsickness, heartsoreness, heavy heart, infelicity, melancholia, melancholy, misery, prostration, regret, rue, sadness, suicidal despair, woe, wretchedness