BKN

Adjective

broken (comparative more broken, superlative most broken)

1. Fragmented; in separate pieces.
   • One recent morning the team had to replace a broken weather research station.
   1. Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
      • My arm is broken!
   2. Split or ruptured.
      • A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken.
   3. Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
   4. Interrupted; not continuous.
      • Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.1906 May–October, Jack London, White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC
   5. Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
      • Tomorrow: broken skies.

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