broken

IPA: brˈoʊkʌn

noun

  • (derogatory, slang) Torres Strait Creole.

adjective

  • Fragmented; in separate pieces.
  • (of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
  • (of skin) Split or ruptured.
  • (of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
  • (of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
  • (meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
  • (of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
  • (of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
  • Non-functional; not functioning properly.
  • (of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
  • (software, informal) Badly designed or implemented.
  • (of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
  • (colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
  • (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
  • Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
  • (of land) Uneven.
  • (sports and gaming, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
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Examples of "broken" in Sentences

  • The sword is broken at the top.
  • The incipient strike was broken.
  • Build the broken, Touch the lonely.
  • It's an assemblage of broken baubles.
  • The disc drive on the laptop is broken.
  • The car crashed and the bumper is broken.
  • In the process it deprecated the broken WEP.
  • The material was poured and the slab broken.
  • The broken glass was shattered on the ground.
  • The contract is not legally broken and is enforceable.

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