broken

adjective

in disrepair
break, cause to not be whole

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbɹəʊ.kn̩/ / /ˈbɹoʊ.kɪn/ / /ˈbɹoʊ.kən/

adj

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.

Fragmented; in separate pieces.
“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".”
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
“My arm is broken!”
“The ground was littered with broken bones.”
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
“A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken.”
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
“Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.”
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
“Tomorrow: broken skies.”
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
“A cuckoo sat on a gate-post singing his broken June tune[.]”
Breached; violated; not kept.
“broken promises of neutrality”
“broken vows”
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
“I think my doorbell is broken.”
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
“This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.”
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
“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.”
“Don't say it in Russian / Don't say it in German / Say it in broken English”
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
“Oh man! That is just broken!”
Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
“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?"”
Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
Uneven.
“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.”
Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
“This item is incredibly broken. I win almost every run I get to use it.”

name

Torres Strait Creole.

verb

past participle of break