heart
/hɑɹt/ verb C1- To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol. · 2008 July 25, "The Media Hearts Obama?", On The Media, National Public Radio
- To mark a comment, post, reply, etc., with the heart symbol (❤). · She hearted my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.
- To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
- To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.
He/she/it hearts · Past hearted · Past participle hearted · -ing form hearting
Verb forms
- Base form
- heart
- He/she/it
- hearts
- Past
- hearted
- Past participle
- hearted
- -ing form
- hearting
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When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child’s laughter that she would scream and press her hand upon her heart whenever Dorothy’s merry voice reached her ears; and she still looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything to laugh at.
“Without her captain!” cried Dantès, his eyes sparkling with animation; “pray mind what you say, for you are touching on the most secret wishes of my heart.
We will leave Danglars struggling with the demon of hatred, and endeavoring to insinuate in the ear of the shipowner some evil suspicions against his comrade, and follow Dantès, who, after having traversed La Canebière, took the Rue de Noailles, and entering a small house, on the left of the Allées de Meilhan, rapidly ascended four flights of a dark staircase, holding the baluster with one hand, while with the other he repressed the beatings of his heart, and paused before a half-open door, from which he could see the whole of a small room.
“You have wounded me to the heart.”
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