broken
坏了,破损,破损的,破碎的
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Definitions
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- : past participle of break.
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- : reduced to fragments; fragmented.
- : ruptured; torn; fractured.
- : not functioning properly; out of working order.
- : Meteorology. being more than half, but not totally, covered by clouds.Compare scattered.
- : changing direction abruptly: The fox ran in a broken line.
- : fragmentary or incomplete: a broken ton of coal weighing 1,500 pounds.
- : infringed or violated: A broken promise is a betrayal of trust.
- : interrupted, disrupted, or disconnected: After the phone call he returned to his broken sleep.
- : weakened in strength, spirit, etc.: His broken health was due to alcoholism.
- : tamed, trained, or reduced to submission: The horse was broken to the saddle.
- : imperfectly spoken, as language: She still speaks broken English.
- : spoken in a halting or fragmentary manner, as under emotional strain: He uttered a few broken words of sorrow.
- : split apart; not intact: a broken marriage. disunited or divided by the prolonged or permanent absence of a parent, usually due to divorce or desertion:a child from a broken home; broken families.
- : not smooth; rough or irregular: We left the plains and rode through broken country.
- : ruined; bankrupt: the broken fortunes of his family.
- : Papermaking, Printing. a quantity of paper of less than 500 or 1000 sheets.
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Examples
It’s no longer neat and clean, but rather it’s a mess of obsolete content, 404 errors, broken links, and other online debris.
The ichthyosaur’s fossilized body and head, while well preserved, are detached from one another, hinting that the animal may have died of a broken neck.
A week and a half into what has become the most widespread protests against the existing political order, you don’t see broken windows or burned-out cars.
Tweed traveled to the state capital Tallahassee for a drive-around rally to protest the broken system.
Performances have resulted in torn Achilles tendons and broken backs.
His first language was Russian, then he learned Swedish, but chooses to perform in monosyllabic broken English.
His surprise marriage to theater director Sophie Hunter may have broken hearts, but the squeals of delight were even louder.
A grand jury investigated but found Foster had broken no law.
How many husbands, wives, sons, and daughters have we lost to a broken system?
And besides, as a nation, we hold this truth to be self-evident: resolutions are made to be broken.
In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.
On May 13 Polavieja arrived in Barcelona physically broken, half blind, and with evident traces of a disordered liver.
Do you want the marriage of your daughter with the rich and Honourable Harry broken?
Broken crocks should be strewn upon the tray, and on to this is heaped peaty soil mixed with sand.
But I am afraid you would very soon get tired of us, and I ought to tell you, frankly, that our little home is to be—a broken up.