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• One recent morning the team had to replace a broken weather research station.
• Local people say there were Russian and Chechen forces here.[…]Over here on the wall, one interesting detail- a single word, which someone has written in broken English: "Sori". - 2022 September 15, 2:33 from the start,...

1. (of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.

   • My arm is broken!
   • The ground was littered with broken bones.

   Synonyms: burst split

2. (of skin) Split or ruptured.

   • A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken.

3. (of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.

4. (of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.

   • Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap. - 1906 May–October, Jack London, White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October...

   Synonyms: intermittent spasmodic broken fitful ragged catchy discontinuous intermissive patchy stop-start

5. (meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.

   • Tomorrow: broken skies.

6. (of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.

   • A cuckoo sat on a gate-post singing his broken June tune[.] - 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill, London: Penguin Books, published 1994, page 9:

• broken promises of neutrality
• broken vows
• the broken covenant

Synonyms: violated

• I think my doorbell is broken.

Synonyms: borked malfunctioning bad broken broken-down bum bung busted cactused crocked dead Donald Ducked down duff faulty flaky FUBAR fucked fuckered up inoperative janky jiggered kaput knackered

1. (of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.

   Synonyms: borked malfunctioning bad broken broken-down bum bung busted cactused crocked dead Donald Ducked down duff faulty flaky FUBAR fucked fuckered up inoperative janky jiggered kaput knackered

2. (informal) Badly designed or implemented.

   • This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.

   Synonyms: borked malfunctioning bad broken broken-down bum bung busted cactused crocked dead Donald Ducked down duff faulty flaky FUBAR fucked fuckered up inoperative janky jiggered kaput knackered

3. (of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.

   • His conversation was in French with Mailey and Roxton, who both spoke the language well, but he had to fall back upon broken English with Malone, who could only utter still more broken French in reply. - 1925 July –...
   • Don't say it in Russian / Don't say it in German / Say it in broken English - 1979, “Broken English”, performed by Marianne Faithfull:

   Synonyms: borked malfunctioning bad broken broken-down bum bung busted cactused crocked dead Donald Ducked down duff faulty flaky FUBAR fucked fuckered up inoperative janky jiggered kaput knackered

4. (colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.

   • Oh man! That is just broken!

   Synonyms: borked malfunctioning bad broken broken-down bum bung busted cactused crocked dead Donald Ducked down duff faulty flaky FUBAR fucked fuckered up inoperative janky jiggered kaput knackered

• The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken.
• He said, "Son, when you grow up / Would you be the savior of the broken / The beaten, and the damned?" - 2006, “Welcome to the Black Parade”, in The Black Parade, performed by My Chemical Romance:
• And oh, maybe I see a part of me in them / The missing piece, always trying to fit in / The shattered heart, hungry for a home / No, you're not alone / I love the broken ones / I love the broken ones - 2011, Dia...

Synonyms: beaten rekt wrecked foiled bested broken confounded conquered defeated licked overcome overpowered pwned recreant routed stonkered subjugated thwarted undone vanquished worsted

Synonyms: destitute skint almsless arm badly off bankrupt beggared beggarly boracic broke broken broker than the Ten Commandments depauperate dirt poor disadvantaged down and out down at heel down on one's luck down on one's uppers empty-handed farthingless feeling the pinch flat goodless

• All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses. - 2005, Will...

• This item is incredibly broken. I win almost every run I get to use it.

Synonyms: OP unbalanced