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broken Adjective

— something that is broken is not as it should be because it has been damaged or injured The broken cup lay in pieces on the floor. After the crash his arm seemed broken. A broken stone is apart(in more than one piece).

broken

— adjective physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split a broken mirror a broken tooth a broken leg his neck is broken — adjective not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly broken lines of defense a broken cable transmission broken sleep tear off the stub above the broken line a broken note broken sobs — adjective (= low) subdued or brought low in condition or status brought low a broken man his broken spirit — adjective (= broken in) tamed or trained to obey a horse broken to the saddle this old nag is well broken in — adjective (= rugged) topographically very uneven broken terrain rugged ground — adjective (= unkept) (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded broken (or unkept) promises broken contracts — adjective lacking a part or parts a broken set of encyclopedia — adjective discontinuous broken clouds broken sunshine — adjective (= busted) out of working order ('busted' is an informal substitute for 'broken') a broken washing machine the coke machine is broken the coke machine is busted — adjective destroyed financially the broken fortunes of the family — adjective (= confused, disordered, upset) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion troops fleeing in broken ranks a confused mass of papers on the desk the small disordered room with everything so upset — adjective imperfectly spoken or written broken English — adjective weakened and infirm broken health resulting from alcoholism

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torn break split shattered ruined damaged crushed cracked smashed kaput interrupted divided violated out of order fractured destroyed defective rent not working busted upset spoiled rugged intermittent fragmentary discontinuous corrupt bad worn-out tumbledown shabby separated rickety ramshackle disrupted disordered dilapidated chopped burst broken-down wounded wiped out weak unrepaired unkept tremble tooth tattered snap smash into pieces

Topics broken topics

What do people use broken to talk about?

Physical actions

Break, wear out

What words describe something that has broken?

broken broken down busted

Universe, creation Animal Animal life cycle

Egg

What words are used to describe a bad egg?

rotten cracked broken

Work and occupation Tool

Machine

What words refer to when a machine is not working?

be off break down broken

Physical actions Divide into pieces

Break

What words describe something that has been broken?

broken smashed crushed pulverized (be) in pieces busted

Physical actions Break, wear out

Damage

What words describe something that has been damaged?

spoiled broken busted messed up damaged crumbling moth-eaten

States Quality Shape Horizontal

Leaning, sloping

What words describe a surface that is not level?

uneven rough hilly wavy lumpy broken (ground) rugged

Social behavior Relationships

Friend

What words describe a friendship that has gone bad?

broken relationship break up strained relationship misunderstanding co-dependency

Social behavior Relationships Begin a relationship

End a relationship

What words describe a friendship that has become bad?

broken relationship break up strained relationship misunderstanding co-dependency

Work and occupation Animal husbandry

Domesticated animal

What words describe an animal that has been domesticated?

domesticated tamed broken in

Work and occupation Working with buildings Infrastructure

Road

What words are used to describe a bad road?

pothole road gone to pot rutted washboard dusty rough broken pavement cracked pavement worn pavement full of holes in need of repair

States Quality Made of, material

Soft, flimsy

What words describe something that is soft?

soft flimsy easily broken tender

Examples broken examples

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Simple sentences

Throw away the chairs whose legs are broken.

Don't step on the broken glass.

The boy must have broken the window.

My house was broken into last night.

My knife is broken.

The air conditioner is broken.

Some of the keys on the piano are broken.

I'm interested in learning how to fix a broken table.

Tom fixed the broken watch.

I had to get my computer repaired as it was broken.

What law have I broken?

How did this get broken?

What laws have I broken?

Aaah!! My computer is broken!

The broken window was boarded up.

Can you fix the broken radio?

It's you who has broken our agreement.

His health has broken down because of overwork.

I think my right arm is broken.

I can't walk because of my broken leg.

I hear that Bob and Lucy have broken up.

The path is broken.

The bird's wing was broken.

The man admitted having broken into the house.

I replaced the broken cups with new ones.

I fix broken radios.

The vase was broken to pieces.

An epidemic has broken out.

Broken glass lay scattered all over the road.

Also, a lot of houses were damaged; windows were often broken throughout the town.

The thief entered through a broken window.

Movie subtitles

I have all these marks on my body, and my shirt is broken, and I don't remember.

She should have some broken body parts somewhere.

You know. Double doors. the kind that open in the center, and, um. But one of the hinges was broken, so. they.

Dented, I'll take. It's broken I'm worried about.

Sir, we pulled you over for a broken taillight.

I have a broken testicle.

Yeah, Mike. Unofficially speaking, the fox has broken cover.

Banks are there to be broken on occasions such as this, lass.

I'm guessing that your heart got broken, and you're still putting the pieces back together.

Her neck has been broken.

She appears to have fallen and broken her neck.

She's broken off the engagement?

We weren't broken.

The promess he gave to the Count has been broken by his other self.

When Abdelkader surrendered, I took my wife and son and went home with a broken heart.

Too bitterly branded for life you became by fate broken-winged, inhibited, self-conscious.

They have broken through.

They have broken in.

It reminds me of the broken battlements of my own castle in Transylvania.

Now he's twisted and broken them iron bars as if they was cheese.

The neck's broken.

Have you broken your umbrella?

I mean, not broken any law. Hasn't she just?

He's looking for some fellow that's broken the big law of the tribe.

A mysterious disease has broken out infecting many of the inhabitants.

Then you'll do a somersault and break your arms, then a grand finish-up with a broken neck.

Look at these broken branches.

And remember: once taken, this oath has never been broken by any man, down through the centuries of time, in the history of this fraternal organisation.

Bud, how's youssef? His body's broken, but his spirit is strong.

I have all these marks on my body, and my shirt is broken, and I don't remember. I don't understand.

Double doors. the kind that open in the center, and, um. But one of the hinges was broken, so. they. they kept that locked.

Well, the vases have already all been broken.

Plague. A plague epidemic has broken out in Transylvania and in the Black Sea ports of Varna and Galaz.

First, the enemy lines must be broken through in Flanders.

Now that I've broken the ice you can never can tell what's going to happen.

He's broken me jaw and me knee, too.

He's broken me rib.

YOU'LL COME OUT WHIPPED AND BROKEN.

You see, I figured out a long time ago that a punch in the nose heals much quicker than a broken heart.

News and current affairs

Almost everyone agreed that the old paradigm of neoclassical economics was broken, but there was no agreement on what can replace it.

We now know that the professor had broken into his own home, with the help of his chauffeur, because the door was jammed.

BERKELEY - Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a good line at the International Monetary Fund meetings this year: governments, he said, are trying to treat a broken ankle when the patient is facing organ failure.

He recognized that Ceausescu was doomed. Pretending to have a broken leg, he stalled in making his reappearance.

Solemn promises made over the years would have to be broken (people would not get the social services that they paid for with a lifetime of high taxes), lives would be shortened (less money for hospitals and nursing homes), and overall hardship increased.

The former, represented by the United States, has broken down, and the latter, represented by China, is on the rise.

What is lacking, however, is a general recognition that the system is broken and needs to be reinvented.

To him, Boris Berezovsky and his cronies are a nuisance; most are already been broken to Putin's will.

Indeed, the International Energy Agency noted in September that the usual relationship between oil prices and inventory levels has broken down, with prices much higher than the usual relationship would suggest.

Spats have broken out between the Obama administration, future presidential contenders, senators, and arms control and defense experts.

Absent a change in trader beliefs, the current oil price spike will be broken only by a recession that exhausts consumers' capacity to buffer higher prices, or when the slow process of substitution away from oil kicks in.

Her celebrity recognized, the public's adoration bestowed, she then departed, leaving the wild dogs, and our broken society, to their fates.

Even if the government-owned oil industry is broken up and privatized, whether to foreigners or not, there is no guarantee that a future government cannot regain control.

But broken eggs do not necessarily make an omelet: Bush's massive (and still growing) fiscal deficits have stimulated nothing but jitters about a prolonged slowdown in capital formation, household consumption, and economic growth.

They will agree that our ability to distinguish right from wrong is something precious that we should safeguard, not a broken clock that scientists should fix.

Even robust China and India are experiencing slower growth, curtailed ambitions, and broken dreams.

While this fact alone will not quiet opponents of immigration, it does give countries more breathing room to repair and strengthen badly broken systems for receiving and integrating newcomers.

To appreciate fully the unique character of this consumer-demand shortfall, trends over the past 21 quarters need to be broken down into two distinct sub-periods.

In the decade since the last crisis, Argentine policymakers have broken almost every rule in the economic-policy playbook.

Indeed, the political turmoil caused by the crisis has broken the back of the old two-party system.

But, given the shortage of good alternatives, we must not assume that bad habits of thought can never be broken, and we should keep the possibility of more enlightened policy constantly in mind.

Pretending to have a broken leg, he stalled in making his reappearance.

It is easy to see the appeal of scrapping today's global financial architecture, because there is obviously much that is broken.

More radical thinkers insist that California is ungovernable and should be broken into two or even three states.

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