Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

heart-rending

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.49 in modern English

Syllables: heart-rend-ing
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of heartrending.

Example Sentences

"With much delicacy, avoiding to instance in her self-experience, she told me, that so long ago as when she used to play the part of the Little Son to Mrs. Porter’s Isabella, (I think it was) when that impressive actress has been bending over her in some heart-rending colloquy, she has felt real hot tears come trickling from her, which (to use her powerful expression) have perfectly scalded her back."

Inflected Forms

more heart-rending (comparative) most heart-rending (superlative)

Phrases

heart-rendingly

Rhymes With

spending ending sending happy ending defending attending extending pending impending descending intending blending

Questions

What does heart-rending mean?: Alternative form of heartrending.

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