Synonyms for eat one's heart out
- bemoan
- deplore
- regret
- bawl
- bewail
- bleed
- cry
- howl
- hurt
- moan
- rain
- repine
- rue
- sing
- sob
- sorrow
- wail
- weep
- beat one's breast
- kick self
- take it hard
Antonyms for eat one's heart out
WORD ORIGIN
Old English heorte "heart; breast, soul, spirit, will, desire; courage; mind, intellect," from Proto-Germanic *khertan- (cf. Old Saxon herta, Old Frisian herte, Old Norse hjarta, Dutch hart, Old High German herza, German Herz, Gothic hairto), from PIE *kerd- "heart" (cf. Greek kardia, Latin cor, Old Irish cride, Welsh craidd, Hittite kir, Lithuanian širdis, Russian serdce "heart," Breton kreiz "middle," Old Church Slavonic sreda "middle").
Spelling with -ea- is c.1500, reflecting what then was a long vowel, and remained when pronunciation shifted. Most of the figurative senses were present in Old English, including "intellect, memory," now only in by heart. Heart attack attested from 1875; heart disease is from 1864. The card game hearts is so called from 1886.