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# unbroken

«unbroken» in Mova's school dictionary: **not broken or damaged: an unbroken egg** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (unbroken)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unbroken means not broken or damaged: an unbroken egg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbroken/#m1)

2) Unbroken means without a stop or gap, continuous: an unbroken line, unbroken sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbroken/#m2)

3) An unbroken record has not been beaten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbroken/#m3)

4) An unbroken horse has not been trained to carry a rider. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbroken/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and maths, an unbroken line is drawn without lifting the pencil; in sports, a record stays unbroken. In stories, an unbroken promise was kept. Phrases: an unbroken line, unbroken record, unbroken silence, unbroken chain.

### examples

- Only three eggs were unbroken after the box fell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbroken/#x1)
- Draw an unbroken line from A to B. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbroken/#x2)
- Her record has stayed unbroken for many seasons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbroken/#x3)
- We walked along an unbroken stretch of sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbroken/#x4)
- The baby had eight hours of unbroken sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbroken/#x5)
- The cowboy tried to ride an unbroken horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbroken/#x6)
- Of 12 eggs, 4 broke, so 8 were unbroken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbroken/#x7)
- His astonishment was great when he awoke to find the glass axe whole and unbroken at his side, and all the trees of the wood lying felled around him! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbroken/#x8)

### note

«Un-» + «broken». In maths: unbroken = total − broken (12 − 4 = 8). Similar: whole, intact, continuous.

### Trees and pragmatics

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