as in heartbroken
feeling unhappiness she was brokenhearted when the relationship ended

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Recent Examples on the Web And what better place for a brokenhearted person to escape? Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024 On his confessional third studio album, Something to Give Each Other, Troye Sivan explores all the ways that love can be shared — and taken away — while offering a buoyant rallying cry for the brokenhearted. Tim Chan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023 No excess of sentiment whatsoever, though, good lord, there could have been, since the live musical accompaniment is a string of brokenhearted hits from the 1960s by songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022 What if all the brokenhearted people living in the world agreed? Pat Myers, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022 In the foreground, Chase and Konner focus on their sad coming-of-age fable, hinging on a brokenhearted betrayal involving Tony and Dickie. Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2021 The cliche of the brokenhearted entertainer trying, and failing, to put on a good face is awfully threadbare. Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2018 The brokenhearted community was still trying to absorb its meaning when, later that same Sunday, a mass shooting unleashed on a crowd in an outdoor concert in Las Vegas killed 58 people. Joe Robertson, kansascity, 5 Nov. 2017 The brokenhearted father joined the British in New York and recruited eight others, only to be seized on a brief furlough home and hanged for treason in March 1777, six months after Hale. Caitlin Fitz, WSJ, 11 July 2017

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“Brokenhearted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brokenhearted. Accessed 28 Oct. 2024.

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