Crossword-Solution: HEARTRENDING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Heartrending | a. | Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “HEARTRENDING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| causing great grief | 1 answer |
| extremely sad | 3 answers |
| Like a tearjerker | 3 answers |
| pitiable | 23 answers |
| agonising | 43 answers |
| Pitiful | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HEARTRENDING (5)
When he told me this he put his hand to his cheek as though he still felt the smart of the blow, and in his eyes was a pain that was heartrending and an amazement that was ludicrous.
Hardly was she in the saddle when a heartrending war-whoop sounded on their flank, and she knew that they were surrounded! Instinctively she reached for her husband’s second quiver of arrows, which was carried by one of the pack ponies.
She wept and kissed it, and kissed it and wept again, in grief so passionate, so heartrending, as to draw bitter tears from my eyes.
Pickwick’s masterly description of that heartrending scene? His note- book, blotted with the tears of sympathising humanity, lies open before us; one word, and it is in the printer’s hands.
Often during office hours, while his colleagues were discussing the topics of the day, his eyes would suddenly fill with tears, and he would give vent to his grief in heartrending sobs.
Quotes with HEARTRENDING (3)
Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good.
Balsa seemed invincible, endowed with powers no other warrior could match, but in her profile he could glimpse the shadow of a young girl, hurt and buffeted by a cruel and hopeless fate. If he had never experienced what it was like to be at the mercy of fate himself, he would not have noticed, but now he could see it with unbearable, heartrending clarity.
Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael Angelo? Have you made public schools of your barracks? Have you not, like ourselves, an opulent war-budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive obedience which is so easily converted into soldierly obedience? military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of firing upon Garibaldi; that is to say, upon the living honor …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1973–2001).