heartache
/ˈhɑːteɪk/ noun B2- Emotional distress or pain, often caused by a loved one or their absence.
Plural heartaches
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But when Anne had gone Diana dried her tears and went to a beach picnic at White Sands with some of her Carmody cousins, where she contrived to enjoy herself tolerably well; while Marilla plunged fiercely into unnecessary work and kept at it all day long with the bitterest kind of heartache--the ache that burns and gnaws and cannot wash itself away in ready tears.
Tell her that, if she had mingled a little trust with her conception of the ideal, much heartache might have been avoided.
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