Broke

/bɹəʊk/

Synonyms for "broke" (63 found)

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Closest matches (13)

bankrupt beat beggared broken busted dead

Verb(6 words)

breach collapse crack crash crush damaged

Adjective(1 words)

bust

Strong matches (19)

Verb(7 words)

defective defy destitute exceed fail fracture impoverished

destitutedown-and-outembarrassed failed flatflat brokehardhard upheel impoverishedin receivershipindigent

Related words (31)

insolvent low needyon the rockson the skidsoofless penniless penurious poor poverty-stricken ruined short stone-broke stony strapped unprosperousup against itupper

Verb(10 words)

malfunction penniless ruined shatter smash snap split surpass transgress violate

Adjective(3 words)

skint stone-broke stony-broke

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

7 entries

breakeconomic conditionexceedfinancial statusmalfunctionrule violationstate of repair

More specific

17 entries

breach crack cracked crash crush defy disobey freezehard uplow incomeshatter shattered smash snap split surpass

Showing 16 of 17 words.

Collocations

12 entries

broke a promisebroke circuitbroke evenbroke familybroke householdbroke studentbroke the glassbroke the newsbroke the recordbroke the silencebroke vasebroke window

Inflections

3 entries

breaking breaks broken

Derivations

5 entries

breakable breakage breakdown breaker unbreakable

similar

1 entries

poor

Sample sentences

31 total sentences available.

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You broke the rule.

Source: tatoeba (16216)

I'd love to go with you to the show, but I'm flat broke.

Source: tatoeba (17609)

I'm broke.

Source: tatoeba (18547)

A fire broke out near my house.

Source: tatoeba (18674)

Showing 4 of 31 available sentences.

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