break sb's heart
B2 to make someone who loves you very sad, usually by telling that person you have stopped loving them :
He's broken a lot of girls' hearts.
B2 If an event or situation breaks your heart, it makes you feel very sad:
She really broke her mother's heart when she left home.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making people sad, shocked and upset
- aback
- amiss
- appal
- be laughing on the other side of your face idiom
- bite
- burn
- hit/touch a (raw) nerve idiom
- horrify
- hurt sb's feelings idiom
- hurtful
- it'll (all) end in tears idiom
- laugh
- mess
- nose
- shake
- tear sb apart
- tear sb's heart out idiom
- torture
- traumatize
- twist/turn the knife (in the wound) idiom
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