Heartache

['hɑːteɪk] or ['hɑrtek]

(n.) Sorrow; anguish of mind; mental pang.

Checker: Lorenzo

n. Grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, broken heart, heavy heart, bleeding heart.

Typist: Rosa

Wildeve went indoors to the empty room, a curious heartache within him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Oh I have such a headache and such a heartache! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
It would save me many a heartache. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

Editor: Monica