ADJ
- healthy, strong
- bad, weak
- artificial
- human
HEART + VERB
- beat
- pump sth
- The heart pumps blood through the body
- fail, stop
- hammer, palpitate, pound, race, throb, thud, thump
HEART + NOUN
- rate
- complaint, condition, defect, disease, failure, murmur, problem, trouble
- bypass, operation, surgery, transplant
- a triple heart bypass operation open-heart surgery
ADJ
- big, good, kind, soft, tender, warm
- cold, hard
- broken
- heavy, sinking
- With a heavy heart, she watched him go
- light
- He set off with a light heart
VERB + HEART
- have
- She has a kind heart. Have you no heart?
- break
- He broke her heart
- gladden
- steal, win
- harden
- open, pour out
- Finally, he broke down tears and poured out his heart to her
HEART + VERB
- jump, leap, lurch, miss/skip a beat
- Her heart leapt with joy
- ache
- My heart aches when I think of their sorrow
- desire sth
- everything your heart could desire
- sink
- go out
- Our hearts go out to (= we sympathize deeply with) the families of the victims
PREP
- at ~
- At heart he is a republican
- from the ~
- I could tell he spoke from the heart
- in your ~
- In my heart, I knew it wasn't true
PHRASES
- an affair of the heart (= a romance)
- Her novels tend to deal with affairs of the heart
- a change of heart
- (= a change of attitude) He could have a change of heart and settle down to family life
- from the bottom of your heart
- I beg you, from the bottom of my heart, to spare his life
- heart and soul
- He committed himself heart and soul to the cause
- have a heart of gold/stone (= to be a kind/ cruel person) (= no sympathetic feelings), the hearts and minds of sb
- to win the hearts and minds of the nation's youth
- in good heart (= cheerful and well), put some/more heart into sth
- Let's sing it one more time from the beginning?and put some heart into it!
- sick at heart (= very unhappy), with all your heart
- I wish you well with all my heart
VERB + HEART
- lie at
- The distinction between right and wrong lies at the heart of all questions of morality
- go to
- The committee's report went to the heart of the government's dilemma
PREP
- at the ~
- the issue at the heart of modern government
- ~ of
- We live in the very heart of the city
PHRASES
- the heart of the matter/problem