Usually means: Deeply emotional, causing great sorrow.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word heart rending:

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  1. heart-rending: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. heart-rending: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. heart-rending, heart-rending: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Heart-rending, heart-rending: Wordnik
  5. heart-rending: Wiktionary
  6. heart-rending: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. heart-rending: Dictionary.com
  8. Heart rending: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. heart-rending: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. Heart-rending: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. heart-rending: TheFreeDictionary.com



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