Definition of "heart-failure" [heart-failure]

• Alternative form of heart failure. (noun)

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• "My Slate colleague Juliet Lapidos has observed that the 1,200 annual heart-failure deaths attributed to blizzards represent only about 0.3 percent of all annual deaths from heart disease."
• "The brute nearly gave me heart-failure when he first began."
• "And one of the studies found that it's actually harmful for heart-failure patients to cut back on salt."