Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Preying on the heart; distressing to the mind or affections: as, heart-eating cares or sorrows.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Preying on the heart.

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Examples

  • I wonder why that heart-eating scene didn't make it into the film.

    Books in 2008, #10 pabba 2008

  • A fancy sword is needed to get rid of a polar bear heart-eating monstrosity, once human.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Masters Of Fantasy - Terry Carr and Martin H. Greenberg Blue Tyson 2008

  • They live solitary, alone, sequestered from all company but heart-eating melancholy; and for want of meat, must eat that bread of affliction, prey upon themselves.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • It is believed that Timberlake learnt this heart-eating technique on a recent visit to Papua in Indonesia.

    Justin Timberlake & Cameron Diaz Still Not Splitting Up 2007

  • When the patient of himself is not able to resist, or overcome these heart-eating passions, his friends or physician must be ready to supply that which is wanting.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • I think we can get behind a little human sacrifice and heart-eating to support the war.

    An idea all true patriots will love 2004

  • The more I think about the heart-eating idea, the more I like it.

    An idea all true patriots will love 2004

  • The more I think about the heart-eating idea, the more I like it.

    Archive 2004-12-19 2004

  • I think we can get behind a little human sacrifice and heart-eating to support the war.

    Archive 2004-12-19 2004

  • She had only gazed out, keeping the vigil with a white face that was beginning to wear the drawn, heart-eating anxiety of the mountain woman; the woman whose code demands that she stand loyally to her clan's hatreds; the woman who has none of the man's excitement in stalking human game, which is also stalking him; the woman who must only stay at home and imagine a thousand terrors

    The Call of the Cumberlands Charles Neville Buck 1904

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