broken

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Động từ

verb

1.
(form of, participle, past)past participle of break

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more broken

Superlative

most broken

1.
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
One recent morning the team had to replace a broken weather research station.
2.
(of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
broken promises of neutrality
broken vows
the broken covenant
Đồng nghĩa: violated
3.
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
I think my doorbell is broken.
Đồng nghĩa: borked, malfunctioning, bad, borked, broken, broken-down, bum, bung, busted, cactused, crocked, dead, Donald Ducked, down, duff, faulty, flaky, FUBAR, fucked, fuckered up, inoperative, janky, jiggered, kaput, knackered, malfunctioning, munted, nonfunctional, nonoperational, offline, off one's feed, on the blink, on the fritz, out, out of commission, out of gas, out of kilter, out of order, out of service, out of sorts, out of whack, screwed up, stuffed, tits up, toes up, tore up, unfunctional
4.
(of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken.
Đồng nghĩa: beaten, rekt, wrecked, foiled, beaten, bested, broken, confounded, conquered, defeated, licked, overcome, overpowered, pwned, recreant, rekt, routed, stonkered, subjugated, thwarted, undone, vanquished, worsted, wrecked
5.
Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
Đồng nghĩa: destitute, skint, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broke, broken, broker than the Ten Commandments, depauperate, destitute, dirt poor, disadvantaged, down and out, down at heel, down on one's luck, down on one's uppers, empty-handed, feeling the pinch, flat, goodless, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, indigent, insolvent, lower-class, necessitous, needy, oofless, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, pok kai, poor, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, poor as Job, possessionless, poverty-ridden, poverty-stricken, shillingless, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke, strapped, stuck, threadbare, unwealthy, wealthless
6.
(of land) Uneven.
7.
(sports, video games, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
This item is incredibly broken. I win almost every run I get to use it.
Đồng nghĩa: OP, unbalanced

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Đồng nghĩa

violatedborkedmalfunctioning badbroken-downbumbung bustedcactusedcrockeddeadDonald Duckeddown duff faulty flaky FUBAR fuckedfuckered upinoperative

Trái nghĩa

hold assemble fix join mendput togetherrepair

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English broken, from Old English brocen, ġebrocen, from Proto-Germanic *brukanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *brekaną (to break). Cognate with gebroken, broken, gebrochen. Morphologically broke + -n.