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     • making you feel great sympathy or sadness: The pictures of starving children on television were heartrending. (Definition of heartrending from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of heartrending heartrending
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   What does heart-rending mean?

   • You use heart-rending to describe something that causes you to feel great sadness and pity. ...heart-rending pictures of refugees. I heard the most heartrending screams and moans. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

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   What does heart rendering mean?

   • In general, to "render" is to give or present something, like to "render a bill", meaning to give someone your bill for payment. It's barely possible that someone said "heart rendering" meaning "to give someone your heart", i.e. offer love or friendship. But I doubt it, unless they were making a play on words with "heart-rending".

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   What does a heartrending cry of loss mean?

   • A heartrending cry of loss such as this would be moving in any context. To them, you are an abstraction, colored by their fear and their hate, or by their heartrending idealism. Their expressions of loneliness and sense of invisibility are heartrending. But when they end up in court, the heartrending emotions and family fissures turn public.

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   What is the cumulative effect of the movie heart-rending?

   • The cumulative effect of the film is heart-rending. Who had the most heart-rending upbringing? The result is sometimes heart-rending and sometimes hilarious. I found this aspect of the plot particularly moving and heart-rending. This heart-rending mood stretched to the judges, but only just.

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   : heartbreaking sense 1. heartrendingly. ˈhärt-ˌren-diŋ-lē. adverb. Synonyms. depressing. dismal. dreary. heartbreaking. melancholy. mournful. pathetic. saddening. sorry. tearful. teary. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of heartrending in a Sentence.

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   You use heart-rending to describe something that causes you to feel great sadness and pity. ...heart-rending pictures of refugees. I heard the most heartrending screams and moans.

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   adjective. us / ˈhɑrtˌren·dɪŋ / Add to word list. making you feel great sympathy or sadness: The pictures of starving children on television were heartrending. (Definition of heartrending from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of heartrending.

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   Definition of heart-rending adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   Heartrending definition: causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.. See examples of HEARTRENDING used in a sentence.

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   adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] You use heart-rending to describe something that causes you to feel great sadness and pity. ...heart-rending pictures of refugees. I heard the most heartrending screams and moans.

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   heartrending. A heartrending cry of loss such as this would be moving in any context. From Huffington Post. To them, you are an abstraction, colored by their fear and their hate, or by their heartrending idealism. From The Atlantic. Their expressions of loneliness and sense of invisibility are heartrending.