"eat someone's heart" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: eats someone's heart [present, singular, third-person], eating someone's heart [participle, present], ate someone's heart [participle, past], ate someone's heart [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|eat<,,ate> someone's heart}} eat someone's heart (third-person singular simple present eats someone's heart, present participle eating someone's heart, simple past and past participle ate someone's heart)
  1. To destroy and humiliate someone.
    Sense id: en-eat_someone's_heart-en-verb--AnmNqiM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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