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adjective

Broken adj.

1.

Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.

2.

Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface.

3.

Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship.

4.

Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships. "The one being who remembered him as he been before his mind was broken." "The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talked the night away."

5.

Subdued; humbled; contrite. "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit."

6.

Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.

7.

Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted. "Her broken love and life."

8.

Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law.

9.

Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.

10.

Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting. "Amidst the broken words and loud weeping of those grave senators."

Broken ground.

(a)

(Mil.) Rough or uneven ground; as, the troops were retarded in their advance by broken ground.

(b)

Ground recently opened with the plow.

Broken line (Geom.), the straight lines which join a number of given points taken in some specified order.

Broken meat, fragments of meat or other food.

Broken number, a fraction.

Broken weather, unsettled weather.

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Etymology of 'Broken'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Broken" Quotes from Famous Books

... since first the state began; They've passed through many trying times as varied seasons ran; They've had the drouth, survived the flood, and isms good and ill Have overcome with sturdy heart and never-dying will; But now with patience broken quite new battles must be won: And Kansas has her dander up and reaches for ...

— Oklahoma Sunshine • Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin) Miller

... road presently left the tobacco fields and passed between broad spaces of lawn luxuriantly clad with guinea-grass, and having large parterres of flowers scattered about it here and there; while in other places it was picturesquely broken up by clumps of feathery bamboo, or gigantic wild cotton and other trees. At length, with a final dash and a grand flourish, the carriage drew up in front of the broad flight of stone steps that led up the scarped and flower- strewn face of the mound upon ...

— The Cruise of the Thetis - A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection • Harry Collingwood

... months later, the thirty or forty inhabitants of Job's Flat on Suffering Creek—a little mining camp stowed away in the southwest corner of Montana, almost hidden amongst the broken foothills of the Rocky Mountains—basking in the sunshine of a Sunday afternoon haze, were suddenly startled by the apparition of a small wagon, driven by a smaller man with yellow hair, bearing down upon them. But that which ...

— The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum

... well ahead of his men, exclaimed, as he leaped down the declivity, 'Follow me, my brave lads, and never heed the cannon shot!' These were the last words he was ever heard to utter. The dragoons got among broken ground filled with Sikh marksmen, who kept up a withering fire on the tall horsemen, throwing themselves flat on their faces whenever they approached. After many bold efforts, the 14th were withdrawn from the ground, ...

— Our Soldiers - Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign • W.H.G. Kingston

... thin veil, that fell over her figure; and her mild and beautiful countenance fixed in grief so solemn as admitted not of tears, while she thus saw committed untimely to the earth her last relative and friend. The gleams, thrown between the arches of the vaults, where, here and there, the broken ground marked the spots in which other bodies had been recently interred, and the general obscurity beyond were circumstances, that alone would have led on the imagination of a spectator to scenes more horrible, than even that, which was pictured at the grave of the misguided ...

— The Mysteries of Udolpho • Ann Radcliffe

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