heartsick

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   overcome with grief, disappointment, or hopeless longing

   He grew heartsick after months without news of the missing expedition.

Formed from heart + sick. It uses heart as the seat of feeling and sick in the older broad sense of being deeply distressed, giving the literal image of a heart made ill by sorrow or longing.

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