<adj.all> despondent about his failure too heartsick to fight back
Heartsick \Heart"sick`\ (h[aum]rt"s[i^]k`), a. [AS. heortise['o]c.] Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.
In other developments, a Beirut newspaper printed a valentine from the heartsick family of an American hostage and received hundreds of other cards supporting other foreigners held hostage in Lebanon.