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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
Seven charities have cut ties with Sarah Ferguson since the email - in which she also appeared to apologise for her public criticism of Epstein after claiming to have broken off contact - emerged last Sunday.
Bonus points: At what age did you begin pulling the wings off of butterflies, and which, if any, of the 10 Commandments have you not broken?
In a statement read on her behalf by prosecutor Ben Lloyd, Ms Shekaj said she had felt "broken" by the defendants' behaviour during the trial.
For some, the Assumption Island deal looks like one broken promise too many.
The statue was in several pieces, with heads and knees broken in half.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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