断腸の思い（だんちょうのおもい）
JLPT N1 · i-adjective
Meaning: heartbreaking feeling
Example sentences
- 断腸の思いで別れを告げる。 — He says goodbye with a heartbreaking sense of grief.
- 断腸の思いで決断する。 — She makes the decision with an agonizing, heartbroken feeling.
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