damaged
1 that has been damaged or injured; no longer whole or working correctly:
a broken window / plate * a broken leg / arm * pieces of broken glass * How did this dish get broken? * The TV's broken.
seealsoBROKENHEART
relationship
2 [usuallybeforenoun] ended or destroyed:
a broken marriage / engagement
seealsoBROKENHOME
promise / agreement
3 [usuallybeforenoun] not kept
not continuous
4 [usuallybeforenoun] not continuous; disturbed or interrupted:
a night of broken sleep * a single broken white line across the road
person
5 [onlybeforenoun] made weak and tired by illness or difficulties:
He was a broken man after the failure of his business.
language
6 [onlybeforenoun] (of a language that is not your own) spoken slowly and with a lot of mistakes; not FLUENT:
to speak in broken English
ground
7 having a rough surface:
an area of broken, rocky ground
seealsoBREAK, BROKE, BROKENv.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for broken is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is broken a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, broken is tagged as adjective.
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