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What does heartwrenching mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word heartwrenching? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
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And Marion Cotillard has made it to the best actress list for the Dardennes' heartwrenching workplace drama Two Days, One Night.
Thinking about it immediately makes me think about Body Shop peppermint foot lotion, Duran Duran, and tables on street corners with lurid, heartwrenching pictures of suffering animals.
In this terrifying and heartwrenching work Munch portrays a child close to death.
To ask this of a 12 year old boy seems unfair and I can't get the heartwrenching sight of it out of my mind.
The interview with Sarah Mohess was both heartwrenching and inspiring.
The images of the people were heartwrenching and the conditions on the boats were simply horrifying.

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