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# heartburn

«heartburn» in Mova's school dictionary: **a burning, painful feeling in the chest or throat, caused…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (heartburn, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Heartburn is a burning, painful feeling in the chest or throat, caused when acid from the stomach comes back up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartburn/#m1)

2) It often happens after eating too much, eating spicy or fatty food, or lying down right after a meal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartburn/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In health lessons it explains digestion: the problem is in the food pipe, not the heart. Adverts for indigestion tablets mention it. Phrases: «get heartburn», «suffer from heartburn», «heartburn tablets».

### examples

- Dad got heartburn after the spicy curry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartburn/#x1)
- Heartburn has nothing to do with your heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartburn/#x2)
- Don't lie down straight after a big meal or you may get heartburn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartburn/#x3)
- Grandma takes a tablet for her heartburn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartburn/#x4)
- Heartburn feels like burning behind your chest bone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartburn/#x5)
- Eating slowly can help stop heartburn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartburn/#x6)
- The acid in your stomach causes heartburn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartburn/#x7)
- Pregnant women often get heartburn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartburn/#x8)

### note

Uncountable: «I have heartburn», not «a heartburn». Trap: despite the name, heartburn does not come from the heart. Chest pain in an adult can be serious, so always tell a grown-up.

### In the corpora

- [Heartburn is when some stomach acid comes up into the food pipe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/15-acids-in-the-kitchen/15/)
- [Dad takes an antacid tablet for heartburn: the alkali in it cancels some stomach acid and the burning eases.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «heartburn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heartburn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.