aching heart



aching heart

A feeling of pain or despair in the absence of someone one loves. I had such an aching heart during the holidays this year, the first ones without my mother.
See also: aching, heart

aching heart

Fig. the feeling of pain because of love that is lost or has faded away. (Described as being in the heart, where love is said to reside.) I try to tell my aching heart that I don't love him.
See also: aching, heart

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Royse-Medieval English
Denica-Bulgarian, Macedonian
Sukhrab-Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Yehuda-Hebrew
ÅSeAW-se (Swedish)Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
ToriaTAWR-yəEnglish