Broken
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broken¹
- /ˈbɹəʊ.kn̩/ UK
- /ˈbɹoʊ.kɪn/ US
- /ˈbɹoʊ.kən/ US
Rhymes with -əʊkən
Where it comes from
From Middle English broken, from Old English brocen, ġebrocen, from Proto-Germanic *brukanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”). Cognate with Dutch gebroken (“broken”), German Low German broken (“broken”), German gebrochen (“broken”). Morphologically broke + -n.
verb
- past participle of break
adjective more broken · most broken
- Fragmented; in separate pieces. One recent morning the team had to replace a broken weather research station.
- Fractured; having the bone in pieces. My arm is broken!
- Split or ruptured. A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken.
- Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- Interrupted; not continuous. Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.
- Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds. Tomorrow: broken skies.
- Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous. A cuckoo sat on a gate-post singing his broken June tune[.]
- Breached; violated; not kept. broken promises of neutrality
- Non-functional; not functioning properly. I think my doorbell is broken.
- Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- Badly designed or implemented. This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.
- Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker. His conversation was in French with Mailey and Roxton, who both spoke the language well, but he had to fall back upon broken English with Malone, who could only utter still more broken French in reply.
- Not having gone in the way intended; saddening. Oh man! That is just broken!
- Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed. The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken.
- Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- Uneven. All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.
- Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power. This item is incredibly broken. I win almost every run I get to use it.
Broken²
proper noun
- Torres Strait Creole.
