break someone's heart

1. 1.

   cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody

   “The young man broke the girl's heart when he told her was going to marry her best friend”

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Questions about break someone's heart

What does break someone's heart mean?

break someone's heart means "cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody".

Is break someone's heart a common word?

break someone's heart is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.