BREAK SOMEONE'S HEART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does break someone's heart mean? 

• BREAK SOMEONE'S HEART (verb)
  The verb BREAK SOMEONE'S HEART has 1 sense:

1. cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody

  Familiarity information: BREAK SOMEONE'S HEART used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREAK SOMEONE'S HEART (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

The young man broke the girl's heart when he told her was going to marry her best friend

Hypernyms (to "break someone's heart" is one way to...):

anguish; hurt; pain (cause emotional anguish or make miserable)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody