English Dictionary

broken

/ˈbɹoʊ.kɪn/

adj

(of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces. / (of skin) Split or ruptured. / (of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.

He fell off his bike and broke his arm.

意味（1）

(of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.

My arm is broken!

意味（2）

(of skin) Split or ruptured.

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

意味（3）

(of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.

意味（4）

(of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.

Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.

意味（5）

(meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.

Tomorrow: broken skies.

意味（6）

(of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.

A cuckoo sat on a gate-post singing his broken June tune[.]

意味（7）

(of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.

broken promises of neutrality

意味（8）

(of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.

意味（9）

(software, informal) Badly designed or implemented.

This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.

意味（10）

(of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.

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.

意味（11）

(colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.

Oh man! That is just broken!

意味（12）

(of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.

The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken.

意味（13）

Having no money; bankrupt, broke.

意味（14）

(of land) 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.

意味（15）

(sports and gaming, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.