brokenhearted

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Ms. Rollin had been dealing with pain from arthritis and a gastrointestinal condition, she said, and had been brokenhearted since the death of her husband, Harold Edwards, a mathematician, in 2020.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2023

This is especially hard when we are so raw and brokenhearted, but it is critical that we find ways to see one another.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2023

But Colman explained in a recent interview that costume designer Verity Hawkes wanted to portray the brokenhearted woman as rotting from the inside by darkening her hem to look like there's mold growing through it.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2023

He broke up with me very abruptly, and I was extremely brokenhearted.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2023

In her favorite novel, a brokenhearted boy burns everything his ex-girlfriend ever gave him, including a photo of her as a child.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby