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Definition of BROKEN
Pronunciation : BROKEN

verb : BROKEN

Source:WordNet 3.1

  • 1. (

    ) terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty" ;

  • 3. (

    ) render inoperable or ineffective; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!" ;

  • 5. (

    ) destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments; "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match" ;

  • 8. (

    ) scatter or part; "The clouds broke after the heavy downpour" ;

  • 9. (

    ) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger" ;

  • 11. (

    ) enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act; "Someone broke in while I was on vacation"; "They broke into my car and stole my radio!"; "who broke into my account last night?" ;

  • 12. (

    ) make submissive, obedient, or useful; "The horse was tough to break"; "I broke in the new intern" ;

  • 13. (

    ) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; "This sentence violates the rules of syntax" ;

  • 14. (

    ) surpass in excellence; "She bettered her own record"; "break a record" ;

  • 16. (

    ) come into being; "light broke over the horizon"; "Voices broke in the air" ;

  • 18. (

    ) interrupt a continued activity; "She had broken with the traditional patterns" ;

  • 19. (

    ) make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing; "The ranks broke" ;

  • 20. (

    ) curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves; "The surf broke" ;

  • 22. (

    ) be broken in; "If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress" ;

  • 23. (

    ) come to an end; "The heat wave finally broke yesterday" ;

  • 24. (

    ) vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity; "The flat plain was broken by tall mesas" ;

  • 25. (

    ) cause to give up a habit; "She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes" ;

  • 26. (

    ) give up; "break cigarette smoking" ;

  • 27. (

    ) come forth or begin from a state of latency; "The first winter storm broke over New York" ;

  • 28. (

    ) happen or take place; "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months" ;

  • 29. (

    ) cause the failure or ruin of; "His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage"; "This play will either make or break the playwright" ;

  • 30. (

    ) invalidate by judicial action; "The will was broken" ;

  • 33. (

    ) reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him" ;

  • 34. (

    ) change directions suddenly ;

  • 35. (

    ) emerge from the surface of a body of water; "The whales broke" ;

  • 38. (

    ) exchange for smaller units of money; "I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy" ;

  • 39. (

    ) destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set" ;

  • 40. (

    ) make the opening shot that scatters the balls ;

  • 41. (

    ) separate from a clinch, in boxing; "The referee broke the boxers" ;

  • 44. (

    ) become punctured or penetrated; "The skin broke" ;

  • 45. (

    ) pierce or penetrate; "The blade broke her skin" ;

  • 48. (

    ) interrupt the flow of current in; "break a circuit" ;

  • 49. (

    ) undergo breaking; "The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages" ;

  • 50. (

    ) find a flaw in; "break an alibi"; "break down a proof" ;

  • 51. (

    ) find the solution or key to; "break the code" ;

  • 52. (

    ) change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another; "Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children" ;

  • 54. (

    ) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated" ;

  • 55. (

    ) crack; of the male voice in puberty; "his voice is breaking;

  • 56. (

    ) fall sharply; "stock prices broke" ;

  • 58. (

    ) diminish or discontinue abruptly; "The patient's fever broke last night" ;

  • 59. (

    ) weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" ;

Adjective : BROKEN

Source:WordNet 3.1

  • 1. (

    ) physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken" ;

  • 2. (

    ) not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly; "broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs" ;

  • 4. (

    ) (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded; "broken (or unkept) promises"; "broken contracts" ;

  • 5. (

    ) tamed or trained to obey; "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in" ;

  • 6. (

    ) topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground" ;

  • 7. (

    ) imperfectly spoken or written; "broken English" ;

  • 8. (

    ) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset" ;

  • 9. (

    ) weakened and infirm; "broken health resulting from alcoholism" ;

  • 11. (

    ) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken'); "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted" ;

  • 12. (

    ) discontinuous; "broken clouds"; "broken sunshine" ;

  • 13. (

    ) lacking a part or parts; "a broken set of encyclopedia" ;


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