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Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. broken-off

    Fallen off, in azimuth, from the course. Also, men taken from one duty to be put on another.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of broken-off in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of broken-off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of broken-off in a Sentence

  1. Robert Einhorn:

    If, at the end of June, there is not a deal, and talks have broken off, I think that it is inevitable that the Congress will adopt new sanctions legislation, what that will mean is the Iranians will reciprocate.

  2. Peter Houde:

    That one lacks the jaw and it appears the ends of both tusks were broken off, ours includes the jaw but is missing one tusk so far - we may find it yet.

  3. Photographer Danila Tkachenko:

    Communication with people has been broken off and left in the past.

  4. Francis de Sales:

    Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

  5. George Steiner:

    The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

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