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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pull at someone's heartstrings en · VERB

Meanings

  1. Synonym of play on someone's heartstrings.
    • “These videos don’t pull at the heartstrings; they make these people look like animals in a zoo instead of individuals that need help,” said Dr Geri-Lynn Utter, a clinical psychologist specializing in addiction. 2023 December 17, Olivia Empson, quoting Dr Geri-Lynn Utter, “‘Tranq tourism’: alarm in Philadelphia as TikTokers travel to film drug users”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
pull at someone's heart strings alternative lexicographic
pulls at someone's heartstrings Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
pulling at someone's heartstrings Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pulled at someone's heartstrings Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pulled at someone's heartstrings Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

play on someone's heartstrings