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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

have the heart en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (in the negative) To have the capacity (to do something); to be able to bring oneself to do something, especially something cruel or hardhearted.
    • I didn't have the heart to tell him we wouldn't ever come back to see him.
    • My heroes have the heart to lose their lives out on the limb And all I remember is thinking "I want to be like them" 2006, “Crazy”, in St. Elsewhere, performed by Gnars Barkley:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
had the heart Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
had the heart Tense=Past lexicographic
having the heart Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
has the heart Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Coordinates

balls · guts

Hypernyms

have it in one

Relateds

lose heart · disheartened

Translations (3)

de das Herz haben (have the capacity for) · da nænne (have the capacity for) · ro se îndura (have the capacity for)