heartache
/ˈhɑrtˌeɪk/
noun
- Deep emotional pain or sorrow, especially from a broken relationship or loss.
- Time helps heal heartache, but the memories remain.
- The end of their friendship caused her great heartache.
- He wrote a song about the heartache of losing a loved one.
- A feeling of worry or distress about a situation.
- Financial troubles brought the family nothing but heartache.
- The constant arguments at home gave the children heartache.
- She felt heartache every time she saw the abandoned building.