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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