What's the difference between heartache and heartgrief?

Heartache


Definition:

  • (n.) Sorrow; anguish of mind; mental pang.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I think it saved us a lot of heartache," Scheidts told the Guardian.
  • (2) They’re all basically the same, but the tiny, barely discernible differences between them consume vast amounts of energy and generate heartache for everyone involved.
  • (3) David Miliband's heartache at leadership loss revealed in new Hillary Clinton emails Read more Longtime Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal also wrote a number of memos to the secretary of state on American politics, including one describing the current Speaker of the House, John Boehner, as “louche, alcoholic [and] lazy” while predicting that Mitt Romney would run for president on a ticket with former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour, whom he compared to Dick Cheney.
  • (4) One is over whether, with more foresight and better planning, an awful lot of money and heartache could have been saved.
  • (5) That would hurt for fans in any country, but the headache and heartache are magnified in Brazil , where football means more and success is almost taken for granted.
  • (6) It is end-of-term heartache twice over for Derby, having lost 1-0 to Queens Park Rangers in the play-off final at Wembley last season.
  • (7) As the legal challenge plays out in North Dakota’s courts, married same-sex couples in Fargo face a heartache and worry that affects everything from healthcare and retirement planning to parenthood.
  • (8) This raises troubling questions well beyond how to diffuse the heartache of small children unable to meet Elsa from Frozen.
  • (9) The study will have cost £20m to run by the end of 2019, but its findings could eventually save the NHS many times that amount, not to mention families like mine a colossal amount of heartache.
  • (10) Joe also knows about the heartache of following England - he was in Mexico in 1970 when England, then World Cup holders, were booted out by West Germany after leading 2-0.
  • (11) For all their heartache, then, these films generally leave us with the reassuring sense that things have got better – and, of course, with a richer, more informed understanding of how that change has come about.
  • (12) Monday Each day takes its emotional toll: the tales of loss, heartache and devastation emerging every minute of every hour are seemingly endless.
  • (13) That's what created all the fan heartache, which in turn creates fan support for the movie."
  • (14) Families are being torn apart, causing unnecessary additional heartache, migrant NHS staff, which we continue to recruit, are being unfairly treated, and international students are targeted as a result of arbitrary net migration figures,” said the JCWI.
  • (15) Making contingency plans before problems set in can save a lot of heartache.
  • (16) David Cameron takes his battle to keep Britain in the EU to MPs on Monday after hitting the most serious political obstacle yet when Boris Johnson announced on Sunday that “after a huge amount of heartache” he is to back the leave campaign.
  • (17) And to say our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families, and their community doesn’t say enough to convey the heartache and the sadness and the anger that we feel.
  • (18) As I can no longer understand the lyrics of even English songs (what I thought was "It's a hard egg" turned out to be "It's a heartache"), it doesn't make that much difference to me if it's sung in Serbo-Croat.
  • (19) Of course, I'm glad for my own sake that she did have children, but sorry to have been the source of so much worry, pain and heartache.
  • (20) So that is where I’m coming from and that is why I have decided, after a huge amount of heartache, because the last thing I wanted was to go against David Cameron or the government, I don’t think there is anything else I can do.” Following Johnson’s announcement there were early signs that it could be a volatile day for sterling before the opening of the Asian markets.

Heartgrief


Definition:

  • (n.) Heartache; sorrow.

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