broken-hearted


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broken-hearted

[ˈbrəʊkənˈhɑːtɪd] ADJcon el corazón destrozado or partido
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

broken-hearted

[ˌbrəʊknˈhɑːtɪd] adjaffranto/a dal dolore, col cuore spezzato
to be broken-hearted → avere il cuore spezzato
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

broken

(ˈbrəukən) adjective
1. see break . a broken window; My watch is broken.
2. interrupted. broken sleep.
3. uneven. broken ground.
4. (of language) not fluent. He speaks broken English.
5. ruined. The children come from a broken home (= their parents are no longer living together).
ˌbroken-ˈhearted adjective
overcome by grief.
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References in classic literature ?
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed -- But a waking dreams of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.
Stay here till I write to you, and oh, write to me soon!-- Your broken-hearted Nicolete."
Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this; but Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored; therefore, to the death-longing eyes of such men, who still have left in them some interior compunctions against suicide, does the all-contributed and all-receptive ocean alluringly spread forth his whole plain of unimaginable, taking terrors, and wonderful, new-life adventures; and from the hearts of infinite Pacifics, the thousand mermaids sing to them -- Come hither, broken-hearted; here is another life without the guilt of intermediate death; here are wonders supernatural, without dying for them.
The boy is quite broken-hearted; he can't eat his meals, and he can't smile.