Collocations for heart - noun

healthy, strong
bad, weak
beating, pounding, racing
artificial
human

beat
pump sth
The heart pumps blood through the body.

fail, stop
flutter, hammer, palpitate, pound, race, throb, thud, thump

rate, rhythm
complaint (esp. BrE), condition, defect, disease, failure, murmur, problem, trouble (see also heart attack)
bypass, operation, surgery, transplant
a triple heart bypass operation

patient
monitor
muscle

big, good, kind, pure, soft, tender, true, warm
cold, dark, hard
broken
heavy, sinking
With a heavy heart, she watched him go.

light
He set off with a light heart.

have
She has a kind heart.
Have you no heart?

break
He broke her heart.

pierce
Her words pierced my heart.

touch
His sad story touched her heart.

gladden, melt, warm
capture, steal, win
follow
Just follow your heart and you'll be happy.

harden
open, pour out
Finally, he broke down in tears and poured out his heart to her.

fill
Relief filled his heart.

jump, leap, lurch, miss a beat, skip a beat
Her heart leaped with joy.

ache
My heart aches when I think of their sorrow.

break
Inside, his heart was slowly breaking.

melt
He smiled and her heart melted.

desire sth
everything your heart could desire

sink
go out
Our hearts go out to (= we sympathize deeply with) the families of the victims.

at heart
At heart he is a republican.

from the heart
I could tell he spoke from the heart.

in your heart
In my heart, I knew it wasn't true.

an affair of the heart (= a romance)
Her novels tend to deal with affairs of the heart

a change of heart (= a change of attitude)
He could have a change of heart and settle down to family life.

from the bottom of your heart
I beg you, from the bottom of my heart, to spare his life.

heart and soul
He committed himself heart and soul to the cause.

have a heart of gold (= to be a very kind person), have a heart of stone (= to be a person who does not show others sympathy or pity), the hearts and minds of sb
to win the hearts and minds of the nation's youth

in good heart (= cheerful and well), put (your) heart into sth
He really puts his heart into his singing.

sick at heart (= very unhappy), with all your heart, with your whole heart (esp. AmE)
I wish you well with all my heart.

very
real, true
This brings us to the real heart of the matter.

lie at
The distinction between right and wrong lies at the heart of all questions of morality.

go to
The committee's report went to the heart of the government's dilemma.

at the heart
the issue at the heart of modern government

heart of
We live in the very heart of the city.

the heart of the matter, the heart of the problem