broken

About 39.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb past participle of break
2. adjective Fragmented; in separate pieces.

   One recent morning the team had to replace a broken weather research station.

3. adjective Fractured; having the bone in pieces.

   My arm is broken!

4. adjective Split or ruptured.

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

5. adjective Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
6. adjective Interrupted; not continuous.
7. adjective Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.

   Tomorrow: broken skies.

8. adjective Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.

Similar words

fractured shattered fragmented crushed destroyed damaged chipped cracked rugged broken in

Often followed by

down up by and into in off the out

Word family

brokenly brokenness brokennesses