broken-down

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

[usuallybeforenoun] in a very bad condition; not working correctly; very tired and sick: a broken-down old car / horse

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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.

Same word in other sources

broken-downEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary broken-downEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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Is broken-down a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, broken-down is tagged as adjective.

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