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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: 14th century crushing grief, anguish, or distress

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. overwhelming distress. Derivatives: heartbreaker n. heartbreaking adj. heartbroken adj.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Heartbreak Heart"break`, n. Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(heartbreaks) Heartbreak is very great sadness and emotional suffering, especially after the end of a love affair or close relationship. N-VAR

Moby Thesaurus

aching heart, affliction, agonizingness, agony, anguish, bale, bleeding heart, broken heart, brokenheartedness, care, desolateness, desolation, dole, excruciatingness, excruciation, grief, heartache, heartbrokenness, heartsickness, heartsoreness, regret, rue, torment, tormentingness, torture, torturousness, woe