Meaning of heart-ache | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic form of heartache.

alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable

Examples

“So Dangerfield’s little dyspepsy had like to have cured one or other of the village leeches, for ever and a day, of the heart-ache and all other aches that flesh is heir to.”

“It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares are left out.”

“Every day brought more disappointment and heart-ache.”

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