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What does heartrending mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word heartrending? Here's what it means.

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  1. That causes great grief, anguish or distress
  2. That elicits deep sympathy
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And makes this decisive sojourn culminate in ancient tragedy: the heartrending sacrifice of a friendship.
Near Zutphen, Canadians soldiers came across a heartrending sight, Stalag VI C, a camp for prisoners captured on the Russian front.
These cases involve terrible, heartrending pain, which is also worthy of comment by this House.
In my job at Channel Mum I speak with dozens of new mums every day and some of their tales are heartrending.
Do not be surprised at that, each of your little sacrifices quenches my infinite and heartrending thirst.
Through the story of Jaffa's oranges, the history of this land is told, a tale that is beautiful and heartrending.

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