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broken

Pronunciation: /ˈbɹəʊ.kn̩/

The English word “broken” has 17 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Fragmented; in separate pieces.
  2. Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
  3. Split or ruptured.
  4. Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
  5. Interrupted; not continuous.
  6. Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
  7. Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
  8. Breached; violated; not kept.
  9. Non-functional; not functioning properly.
  10. Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
  11. Badly designed or implemented.
  12. Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
  13. Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
  14. Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
  15. Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
  16. Uneven.
  17. Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.

Etymology

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.

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