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# broken

«broken» in Mova's school dictionary: **damaged, or in pieces** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (broken); verb (break, breaks, broke, broken, breaking — broken is the past participle)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Broken means damaged, or in pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#m1)

2) Broken means not working: «The TV is broken». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#m2)

3) A broken promise is one that was not kept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#m3)

4) Broken English is spoken with many mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#m4)

5) A broken bone is a cracked bone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

things that cannot be used and are taken away from a total; in everyday safety, broken glass; phrases «broken arm», «broken promise», «broken home», «broken line» (a dashed line)

### examples

- 4 of the 24 eggs were broken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#x1)
- He has 10 crayons; 3 are broken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#x2)
- How many plates are not broken? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#x3)
- The broken stick was cut into 3 pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#x4)
- She has a broken arm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#x5)
- The window was broken by a ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#x6)
- My watch is broken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#x7)
- Don't touch broken glass, tell an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#x8)
- He felt sad about the broken promise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#x9)
- Draw a broken line between the points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#x10)
- And now my heart is broken." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/#x11)

### note

Broken ones are taken away from the good ones. Trap: broken pieces of one thing may be more than one. Say «it is broken» or «it broke», not «it is broke». Safety: never pick up broken glass with bare hands.

### In the corpora

- [Saving means putting money aside now for something bigger later, or for emergencies like a broken boiler.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/8/)
- [Ollie gasps, "What's broken?" Dad smiles: "Nothing's broken, bud.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/6/)
- [Bones are alive, with blood vessels and cells that rebuild them, so a broken bone can heal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin/6/)
- [A broken growth plate needs a doctor's care, because if it heals badly that bone may grow less.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/14/)
- [I've only broken out of the strongest prison in England, that's all!»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/33/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «broken» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broken/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.