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Mr. Tom Posted 6 years ago
Vocabulary

Use of heart-burn

Hi

Could you please tell me which verbs sound natural with heart-burn? Do you hyphenate the word?

Are these sentences OK? Any other suggestions please?

  1. She suffers from heart-burn.
  2. I am having a flaming heart-burn right now.
  3. She developed heart-burn issues because of consuming too much alcohol.
  4. Oily foods cause me instant heart-burn.

Thanks,

Tom

  

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I spell it "heartburn", and also the OED entry and all its modern citations. Mr. Tom She suffers from heart-burn.

— Anonymous

  • I spell it "heartburn", and also the OED entry and all its modern citations.
  • Mr.
  • Tom She suffers from heart-burn.
  • Good.
  • Mr.
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I spell it "heartburn", and also the OED entry and all its modern citations.

Mr. TomShe suffers from heart-burn.

Good.

Mr. TomI am having a flaming heart-burn right now.

No. It is uncountable, at least in my US dialect.

Mr. TomShe developed heart-burn issues because of consu
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