Heart and Target

Heart

Heart noun - The capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune.

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Target and heart are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Target" instead a noun "Heart".

Nearby Words: hearty, heartless, hearten, heartily, hear

Target noun - A person or thing that is the object of abuse, criticism, or ridicule.

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Heart and target are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Heart" instead a noun "Target".

Nearby Words: targeted, targe, targeting

good	good heart	good target
soft	soft heart	soft target
original	original heart	original target
true	true heart	true target
Other adjectives: visible, small, actual, real, large, big, huge, main, new, last, said, giant.

You have to destroy its Core in order to defeat it for good: you actively need to target a little, pink heart-like part of it.

Source: Video Game / Final Fantasy IX
An episode of Time Trax involves a 22nd-century criminal using a device that temporarily supercharges the target's heart to kill a person with a "heart attack".

Source: Make It Look Like an Accident
Related to this is the 3.5 Assassin spell "Heartripper", which, if the target fails a save vs death, blasts the target's heart out of their back.

Source: Bloody Murder

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