Usually means: Damaged, no longer functioning properly.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word broken:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. broken: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. broken: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. broken: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. broken: Collins English Dictionary
  5. broken: Vocabulary.com
  6. broken: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. broken: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. broken: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. broken: Dictionary.com
  10. broken: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Broken (EP), Broken (House), Broken (Jake Bugg song), Broken (Lifehouse song), Broken (Lovelytheband song), Broken (Memphis May Fire album), Broken (Nine Inch Nails EP), Broken (Nine Inch Nails film), Broken (Once Upon a Time), Broken (Sam Clark song), Broken (Seether song), Broken (Slaughter novel), Broken (Soulsavers album), Broken (TV series), Broken (film), Broken (lovelytheband song), Broken (song), Broken, The Broken (film), The Broken, The broken: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Broken: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. broken: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. broken: Rhymezone
  15. broken: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. broken: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. broken: Free Dictionary
  18. broken: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. broken: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  20. broken: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. broken: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. Broken, broken: Wordnik
  23. broken: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  24. Broken, broken: Wiktionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Broken (album), Broken (disambiguation), Broken (single), broken: Legal dictionary
  3. broken: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. broken: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. The Microsoft Lexicon (No longer online)
  3. Broken (album), Broken (disambiguation), Broken (single), broken: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. broken: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. broken: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. broken: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Broken: Glossary of Terms Used in Showing Rabbits

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Wine Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See brokening as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Fragmented; in separate pieces.
adjective:  (of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
adjective:  (of skin) Split or ruptured.
adjective:  (of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
adjective:  (of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
adjective:  (meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
adjective:  (of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
adjective:  (of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
adjective:  Non-functional; not functioning properly.
adjective:  (of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
adjective:  (software, informal) Badly designed or implemented.
adjective:  (of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
adjective:  (colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
adjective:  (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
adjective:  Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
adjective:  (of land) Uneven.
adjective:  (sports, gaming, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
noun:  (derogatory, slang) Torres Strait Creole.

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