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Broken
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- 1 Fragmented; in separate pieces.
"One recent morning the team had to replace a broken weather research station."
- 2 Fragmented; in separate pieces.; Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
"My arm is broken!"
- 3 Fragmented; in separate pieces.; Split or ruptured.
"A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken."
- 4 Fragmented; in separate pieces.; Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- 5 Fragmented; in separate pieces.; Interrupted; not continuous.
"Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap."
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- 6 Fragmented; in separate pieces.; Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
"Tomorrow: broken skies."
- 7 Fragmented; in separate pieces.; Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
"A cuckoo sat on a gate-post singing his broken June tune[.]"
- 8 Breached; violated; not kept.
"broken promises of neutrality"
- 9 Non-functional; not functioning properly.
"I think my doorbell is broken."
- 10 Non-functional; not functioning properly.; Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- 11 Non-functional; not functioning properly.; Badly designed or implemented. informal
"This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time."
- 12 Non-functional; not functioning properly.; Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
"His conversation was in French with Mailey and Roxton, who both spoke the language well, but he had to fall back upon broken English with Malone, who could only utter still more broken French in reply."
- 13 Non-functional; not functioning properly.; Not having gone in the way intended; saddening. US, colloquial
"Oh man! That is just broken!"
- 14 Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
"The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken."
- 15 Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- 16 Uneven.
"All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses."
- 17 Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
"This item is incredibly broken. I win almost every run I get to use it."
- 1 physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split wordnet
- 2 (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded wordnet
- 3 not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly wordnet
- 4 lacking a part or parts wordnet
- 5 discontinuous wordnet
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- 6 out of working order (‘busted’ is an informal substitute for ‘broken’) wordnet
- 7 destroyed financially wordnet
- 8 weakened and infirm wordnet
- 9 thrown into a state of disarray or confusion wordnet
- 10 imperfectly spoken or written wordnet
- 11 subdued or brought low in condition or status wordnet
- 12 topographically very uneven wordnet
- 13 tamed or trained to obey wordnet
- 1 Torres Strait Creole. derogatory, slang
- 1 past participle of break form-of, participle, past
Etymology
From Middle English broken, from Old English brocen, ġebrocen, from Proto-Germanic *brukanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”). Cognate with Dutch gebroken (“broken”), German Low German broken (“broken”), German gebrochen (“broken”). Morphologically broke + -n.
From Middle English broken, from Old English brocen, ġebrocen, from Proto-Germanic *brukanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”). Cognate with Dutch gebroken (“broken”), German Low German broken (“broken”), German gebrochen (“broken”). Morphologically broke + -n.
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