12. broken spoken in a halting manner, as under emotional strain.
13. broken disunited or divided; disrupted, as by divorce: broken families.
14. broken not smooth; rough or irregular: broken ground.
15. broken overwhelmed with sorrow or disappointment: a broken heart.
16. broken ruined; bankrupt: broken fortunes.
Definition of 'broken'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (adj)broken physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken"
2. (adj)broken not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly "broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs"
3. (adj)broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low subdued or brought low in condition or status "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"
4. (adj)broken, unkept (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded "broken (or unkept) promises"; "broken contracts"
5. (adj)broken, broken in tamed or trained to obey "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in"
6. (adj)broken, rugged topographically very uneven "broken terrain"; "rugged ground"
7. (adj)broken imperfectly spoken or written "broken English"
8. (adj)broken, confused, disordered, upset thrown into a state of disarray or confusion "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset"
9. (adj)broken weakened and infirm "broken health resulting from alcoholism"
10. (adj)broken, wiped out(p), impoverished destroyed financially "the broken fortunes of the family"
11. (adj)broken, busted out of workingorder (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted"
5. (verb)broken made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships
6. (verb)broken subdued; humbled; contrite
7. (verb)broken subjugated; trained for use, as a horse
8. (verb)broken crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted
9. (verb)broken not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law
10. (verb)broken ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman
11. (verb)broken imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting
Definitions of 'broken'
The New Hacker's Dictionary
1. broken 1. Not working according to design (of programs). This is the
mainstream sense.
2. Improperly designed, This sense carries a more or less
disparaging implication that the designer should have known better, while
sense 1 doesn't necessarily assign blame. Which of senses 1 or 2 is
intended is conveyed by context and nonverbal cues.
3. Behaving strangely; especially (when used of people) exhibiting
extreme depression.