Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eat someone's heart

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.22 in modern English

Syllables: eat -some-one's -heart
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To destroy and humiliate someone.

Example Sentences

"O God! that I were a man. I would eat his heart in the marketplace."
"“And now you sit like a maggot in my flesh, waiting only to eat my heart.”"
"“I threw down with my brother,” said Clint. “And I utterly kicked his ass, and he's on the college wrestling team. He was crying at the bottom of the stairs, and I was, like, 'I will eat your heart, man, I will totally eat your heart.'"

Inflected Forms

eats someone's heart (present, singular) eating someone's heart (participle, present) ate someone's heart (participle, past) ate someone's heart (past)

Questions

What does eat someone's heart mean?: To destroy and humiliate someone.

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