Word Meanings - BROKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;

Additional info about word: BROKEN

1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship. 4. Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships. The one being who remembered him as he been before his mind was broken. G. Eliot. The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. Goldsmith. 5. Subdued; humbled; contrite. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. Ps. li. 17. 6. Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse. 7. Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted. "Her broken love and life." G. Eliot. 8. Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law. 9. Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman. 10. Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting. Amidst the broken words and loud weeping of those grave senators. Macaulay. Broken ground. Rough or uneven ground; as, the troops were retarded in their advance by broken ground. Ground recently opened with the plow. -- Broken line , the straight lines which join a number of given points taken in some specified order. -- Broken meat, fragments of meat or other food. -- Broken number, a fraction. -- Broken weather, unsettled weather.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BROKEN)

• Tame
• Domesticated
• reclaimed
• tamed
• subjugated
• broken
• gentle
• mild
• docile
• meek
• spiritless
• tedious
• dull
• flat

Related words: (words related to BROKEN)

• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• TAMARIC
  A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath. He shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come. Jer. xvii. 6 .
• TAMPING
  1. The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine. 2. The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1. Tamping iron, an iron rod
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• TAMABILITY
  The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• TAMBOUR
  A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine. 2. A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame;
• TAM-'-SHANTER
  A kind of Scotch cap of wool, worsted, or the like, having a round, flattish top much wider than the band which fits the head, and usually having a tassel in the center.
• TAM-TAM
  A kind of drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental countries; -- called also tom-tom. A gong. See Gong, n., 1.
• TAMARIND
  tamarindo, tamarinho, from Ar. tamarhindi, literally, Indian date; 1. A leguminous tree cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with
• BROKEN
  1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
• TAMUL
  Tamil.
• DOMESTICATE
  1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild
• TAMARISK
  Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species is the source of one kind of manna. Tamarisk salt tree, an East Indian tree
• RECLAIM
  To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. A tract of land snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe.
• GENTLEWOMAN
  1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
• TAMBOURIN
  An old Provençal dance of a lively character, common on the stage. (more info) 1. A tambourine.
• BROKEN-WINDED
  Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
• TAMBAC
  See TOMBAC
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• DICTAMNUS
  A suffrutescent, D. Fraxinella , with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable.
• PENTAMERAN
  One of the Pentamera.
• DICTAMEN
  A dictation or dictate. Falkland.
• METAMORPHOSE
  To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute. And earth was metamorphosed into man. Dryden.
• SCITAMINEOUS
  Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants , mostly tropical herbs, including the ginger, Indian shot, banana, and the plants producing turmeric and arrowroot.
• CATAMENIAL
  Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.
• STAMIN
  A kind of woolen cloth. (more info) fr. L. stamineus consisting of threads, fr. stamen a thread. See
• AYUNTAMIENTO
  In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen.
• HEPTAMEROUS
  Consisting of seven parts, or having the parts in sets of sevens. Gray.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.