broken arch | an arch with a gap at the apex, the gap is usually filled with some decoration |
broken heart | devastating sorrow and despair, he is recovering from a broken heart, a broken heart languishes here |
broken home | a family in which the parents have separated or divorced |
heaves broken wind | a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks |
broken | physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split, a broken mirror, a broken tooth, a broken leg, his neck is broken |
broken unkept | (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded, broken (or unkept) promises, broken contracts |
broken | not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly, broken lines of defense, a broken cable transmission, broken sleep, tear off the stub above the broken line, a broken note, broken sobs |
broken-field | varying in direction suddenly and frequently, broken-field running |
broken | lacking a part or parts, a broken set of encyclopedia |
broken-backed hogged | (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end |
broken | discontinuous, broken clouds, broken sunshine |
bedraggled broken-down derelict dilapidated ramshackle tatterdemalion tumble-down | in deplorable condition, a street of bedraggled tenements, a broken-down fence, a ramshackle old pier, a tumble-down shack |
broken busted | out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken'), a broken washing machine, the coke machine is broken, the coke machine is busted |
broken-backed | having the spine damaged, a broken-backed book, a broken-backed old horse |
broken wiped out(p) impoverished | destroyed financially, the broken fortunes of the family |
broken-backed | (of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth |
broken | weakened and infirm, broken health resulting from alcoholism |
broken confused disordered upset | thrown into a state of disarray or confusion, troops fleeing in broken ranks, a confused mass of papers on the desk, the small disordered room, with everything so upset |
broken | imperfectly spoken or written, broken English |
broken crushed humbled humiliated low | subdued or brought low in condition or status, brought low, a broken man, his broken spirit |
broken-down | not in working order, had to push the broken-down car, a broken-down tractor fit only for children to play on |
broken rugged | topographically very uneven, broken terrain, rugged ground |
broken broken in | tamed or trained to obey, a horse broken to the saddle, this old nag is well broken in |