'Broken' definitions:
Definition of 'broken'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken" [ant: unbroken]
adjective
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" [ant: unbroken]
adjective
Subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low]
adjective
(especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded; "broken (or unkept) promises"; "broken contracts" [syn: broken, unkept] [ant: kept, unbroken]
adjective
Tamed or trained to obey; "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in" [syn: broken, broken in]
adjective
Topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground" [syn: broken, rugged]
adjective
Imperfectly spoken or written; "broken English"
adjective
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" [syn: broken, confused, disordered, upset]
adjective
Weakened and infirm; "broken health resulting from alcoholism"
adjective
Destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family" [syn: broken, wiped out(p), impoverished]
adjective
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" [syn: broken, busted]
adjective
Discontinuous; "broken clouds"; "broken sunshine"
adjective
Lacking a part or parts; "a broken set of encyclopedia"
Definition of 'Broken'
From: GCIDE
- Break \Break\ (br[=a]k), v. t. [imp. broke (br[=o]k), (Obs. Brake); p. p. Broken (br[=o]"k'n), (Obs. Broke); p. pr. & vb. n. Breaking.] [OE. breken, AS. brecan; akin to OS. brekan, D. breken, OHG. brehhan, G. brechen, Icel. braka to creak, Sw. braka, br[aum]kka to crack, Dan. br[ae]kke to break, Goth. brikan to break, L. frangere. Cf. Bray to pound, Breach, Fragile.]
- 1. To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate. [1913 Webster]
- Katharine, break thy mind to me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise. [1913 Webster]
- Out, out, hyena! these are thy wonted arts . . . To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray. --Milton [1913 Webster]
- 5. To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey. [1913 Webster]
- Go, release them, Ariel; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments. [1913 Webster]
- The victim broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 9. To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill. [1913 Webster]
- 10. To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax. [1913 Webster]
- 11. To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind. [1913 Webster]
- An old man, broken with the storms of state. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 12. To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow. [1913 Webster]
- I'll rather leap down first, and break your fall. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 13. To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend. [1913 Webster]
- 14. To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle. "To break a colt." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 15. To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin. [1913 Webster]
- With arts like these rich Matho, when he speaks, Attracts all fees, and little lawyers breaks. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 16. To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss. [1913 Webster]
- I see a great officer broken. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- Note: With prepositions or adverbs: [1913 Webster]
- To break down. (a) To crush; to overwhelm; as, to break down one's strength; to break down opposition. (b) To remove, or open a way through, by breaking; as, to break down a door or wall.
- To break in. (a) To force in; as, to break in a door. (b) To train; to discipline; as, a horse well broken in.
- To break of, to rid of; to cause to abandon; as, to break one of a habit.
- To break off. (a) To separate by breaking; as, to break off a twig. (b) To stop suddenly; to abandon. "Break off thy sins by righteousness." --Dan. iv. 27.
- To break open, to open by breaking. "Open the door, or I will break it open." --Shak.
- To break out, to take or force out by breaking; as, to break out a pane of glass.
- To break out a cargo, to unstow a cargo, so as to unload it easily.
- To break through. (a) To make an opening through, as, as by violence or the force of gravity; to pass violently through; as, to break through the enemy's lines; to break through the ice. (b) To disregard; as, to break through the ceremony.
- To break up. (a) To separate into parts; to plow (new or fallow ground). "Break up this capon." --Shak. "Break up your fallow ground." --Jer. iv. 3. (b) To dissolve; to put an end to. "Break up the court." --Shak.
- To break (one) all up, to unsettle or disconcert completely; to upset. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- Note: With an immediate object: [1913 Webster]
- To break the back. (a) To dislocate the backbone; hence, to disable totally. (b) To get through the worst part of; as, to break the back of a difficult undertaking.
- To break bulk, to destroy the entirety of a load by removing a portion of it; to begin to unload; also, to transfer in detail, as from boats to cars.
- To break a code to discover a method to convert coded messages into the original understandable text.
- To break cover, to burst forth from a protecting concealment, as game when hunted.
- To break a deer or To break a stag, to cut it up and apportion the parts among those entitled to a share.
- To break fast, to partake of food after abstinence. See Breakfast.
- To break ground. (a) To open the earth as for planting; to commence excavation, as for building, siege operations, and the like; as, to break ground for a foundation, a canal, or a railroad. (b) Fig.: To begin to execute any plan. (c) (Naut.) To release the anchor from the bottom.
- To break the heart, to crush or overwhelm (one) with grief.
- To break a house (Law), to remove or set aside with violence and a felonious intent any part of a house or of the fastenings provided to secure it.
- To break the ice, to get through first difficulties; to overcome obstacles and make a beginning; to introduce a subject.
- To break jail, to escape from confinement in jail, usually by forcible means.
- To break a jest, to utter a jest. "Patroclus . . . the livelong day breaks scurril jests." --Shak.
- To break joints, to lay or arrange bricks, shingles, etc., so that the joints in one course shall not coincide with those in the preceding course.
- To break a lance, to engage in a tilt or contest.
- To break the neck, to dislocate the joints of the neck.
- To break no squares, to create no trouble. [Obs.]
- To break a path, road, etc., to open a way through obstacles by force or labor.
- To break upon a wheel, to execute or torture, as a criminal by stretching him upon a wheel, and breaking his limbs with an iron bar; -- a mode of punishment formerly employed in some countries.
- To break wind, to give vent to wind from the anus. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To dispart; rend; tear; shatter; batter; violate; infringe; demolish; destroy; burst; dislocate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Broken'
From: GCIDE
- Broken \Bro"ken\ (br[=o]"k'n), a. [From Break, v. t.]
- 1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships. [1913 Webster]
- The one being who remembered him as he been before his mind was broken. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]
- The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Subdued; humbled; contrite. [1913 Webster]
- The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. --Ps. li. 17. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted. "Her broken love and life." --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law. [1913 Webster]
- 9. Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Amidst the broken words and loud weeping of those grave senators. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'broken'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aggravated,
- aloof,
- ausgespielt,
- bankrupt,
- beaten,
- blasted,
- blighted,
- broke,
- broken off,
- broken-down,
- brought low,
- bumpy,
- burned,
- burst,
- busted,
- capricious,
- careening,
- catchy,
- chastened,
- checked,
- chipped,
- chopped-off,
- choppy,
- coarse,
- coarse-grained,
- conditioned,
- conquered,
- corrugated,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- cross-grained,
- crushed,
- cut,
- damaged,
- debilitated,
- decousu,
- defeated,
- defied,
- dejected,
- demoralized,
- desolated,
- destitute,
- destroyed,
- desultory,
- detached,
- deteriorated,
- devastated,
- deviative,
- disciplined,
- disconnected,
- discontinued,
- discontinuous,
- discouraged,
- discrete,
- disintegrated,
- disjointed,
- disjunctive,
- disobeyed,
- dispirited,
- disregarded,
- disturbed,
- docile,
- domesticated,
- done for,
- done in,
- dovelike,
- down-and-out,
- eccentric,
- embittered,
- enfeebled,
- episodic,
- erratic,
- exacerbated,
- failed,
- fallen,
- felled,
- finished,
- fitful,
- flattened,
- flickering,
- fluctuating,
- fractured,
- fragmentary,
- fragmented,
- gapped,
- gentle,
- gone to pot,
- grainy,
- granulated,
- guttering,
- halting,
- harmed,
- haywire,
- herky-jerky,
- heteroclite,
- homespun,
- horripilant,
- housebroke,
- housebroken,
- humble,
- humbled,
- humiliated,
- hurt,
- ignored,
- immethodical,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- in bits,
- in disrepair,
- in pieces,
- in receivership,
- in ruins,
- in shards,
- incoherent,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- inequal,
- infringed,
- injured,
- inoperative,
- insolvent,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- interrupted,
- irregular,
- irremediable,
- irritated,
- jagged,
- jerky,
- jolty,
- kaput,
- lacerated,
- lamblike,
- licked,
- linsey-woolsey,
- lurching,
- made to grovel,
- mangled,
- mastered,
- meek,
- mild,
- mutilated,
- nonadherent,
- nonadhesive,
- noncoherent,
- noncohesive,
- noncontinuous,
- nonlinear,
- nonsequential,
- nonserial,
- nonuniform,
- obedient,
- on the blink,
- on the fritz,
- on the rocks,
- open,
- out of commission,
- out of condition,
- out of gear,
- out of joint,
- out of kelter,
- out of kilter,
- out of order,
- out of repair,
- out of tune,
- out of whack,
- overthrown,
- pacific,
- parenthetic,
- patchy,
- peaceable,
- pimply,
- pitted,
- pocky,
- potholed,
- pulverized,
- put down,
- quelled,
- quiet,
- rambling,
- rank,
- ravaged,
- reduced,
- rent,
- ripply,
- rough,
- rough-cast,
- rough-grained,
- rough-hewn,
- ruffled,
- ruined,
- ruinous,
- ruptured,
- rutted,
- rutty,
- scalded,
- scorched,
- scrappy,
- shagged,
- shaggy,
- shattered,
- shivered,
- slashed,
- slit,
- smashed,
- snatchy,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- splintered,
- split,
- spoiled,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- sprung,
- staggering,
- subdued,
- subjugated,
- suppressed,
- suspended,
- tame,
- tamed,
- tenuous,
- textured,
- the worse for,
- torn,
- trained,
- transgressed,
- unadhesive,
- uncertain,
- uncoherent,
- uncohesive,
- unconnected,
- undone,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unjoined,
- unkempt,
- unlevel,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unregular,
- unrhythmical,
- unsettled,
- unsmooth,
- unsteady,
- unsuccessive,
- unsystematic,
- untenacious,
- ununiform,
- vanquished,
- variable,
- veering,
- violated,
- wandering,
- wasted,
- wavering,
- weakened,
- wimpled,
- wobbling,
- wobbly,
- worse,
- worse off,
- worsened,
- wrecked
Words containing 'Broken'
- Brokenly,
- Brokenness,
- broken down,
- broken in,
- broken off,
- Broken Arrow,
- Broken Bow,
- Broken breast,
- Broken ground,
- Broken line,
- Broken meat,
- Broken number,
- Broken weather,
- Broken wind,
- broken arch,
- broken heart,
- broken home,
- broken-down,
- Broken Arrow, OK,
- Broken Bow, NE,
- Broken Bow, OK,
- Broken-backed,
- Broken-bellied,
- Broken-hearted,
- Broken-winded,
- Pock-broken,
- Wind-broken,
- broken-field,
- broken-backed hogged,
- battered beat-up beaten-up bedraggled broken-down dilapidated ramshackle tumble-down unsound