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broken
adjective as in destroyed; made into pieces from a whole
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busted, collapsed, cracked, crumbled, crushed, damaged, defective, demolished, destroyed, fractured, fragmented, injured, mangled, mutilated, ruptured, severed, shattered, smashed, splintered
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burst, disintegrated, dismembered, pulverized, rent, riven, separated, shivered, shredded, slivered, split
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adjective as in discontinuous
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erratic, fragmentary, incomplete, intermittent, irregular, spasmodic, spastic
adjective as in mentally defeated
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browbeaten, defeated, demoralized, depressed, discouraged, disheartened, humbled, oppressed, overpowered, subdued, tamed, vanquished
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adjective as in not working
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coming unstuck, fallen apart, feeble, gone to pieces, haywire, imperfect, in disrepair, in need of repair, in the shop, inoperable, inoperative, kaput, not functioning, on the blink, on the fritz, out of commission, out of kilter, out of order, out of whack, run down, screwed-up, unsatisfactory, weak
adjective as in forgotten, ignored (promise)
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abandoned, dishonored, disobeyed, disregarded, ignored, infringed, retracted, traduced, transgressed, violated
adjective as in stuttering in speech
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Example Sentences
He was left with a broken jaw, missing teeth, 15 small punctures and two deep lacerations on his cheek and neck, which the 33-year-old said could scar.
By midmorning, news made it to the neighborhood that a fire had broken out about 11 miles away.
He spent several weeks in hospital care treating 38 broken bones, severe chest trauma and a collapsed lung.
“My heart is broken,” Cannick said in a video speaking about her friend’s death.
Arsenal's Declan Rice could only play 71 minutes of the draw at Chelsea with an already broken toe, while Bukayo Saka also went off injured.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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