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broken-down

broken-down adjective: which has broken down and, as a result, is no longer in working order.

Adjective

broken-down (comparative more broken-down, superlative most broken-down)

  1. Which has broken down and, as a result, is no longer in working order.
    • And a broken-down train and the severe weather temporarily shut the line between Dawlish and Exeter St Davids.2021 December 29, Stefanie Foster, “Storm Barra causes fresh disruption to the railway”, in RAIL, number 947, page 19
    Synonyms:
    out of order
  2. Not properly maintained; neglected.
    Synonyms:
    ramshackle
  3. Ruined in character or strength.
    • We looked our last upon them and the indescribable rosy glow in which they lay, and then with hearts far too heavy for words we left them, and crept thence broken-down men - so broken down that we even renounced the chance of practically immortal life, because all that made life valuable had gone...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

broken-down meaning in Malayalam and Arabic

broken-down in Malayalam

dilapidated, run down, ramshackle
തകർന്ന, ജീർണ്ണിച്ച, പഴകിപ്പൊളിഞ്ഞ, പൊളിഞ്ഞ, പൊട്ടിവീണ, കേടുവന്ന
faulty, defective, broken
തകർന്ന, കേടായ, കേടുള്ള, കേടായിപ്പോയ, തകർച്ചപറ്റിയ, പരിക്ഷത

broken-down in Arabic

no longer in working order
مُعَطَّل muʕaṭṭal

Synonyms of broken-down

Forms of broken-down

comparativemore broken-down
superlativemost broken-down

Phrases with broken-down

Questions about broken-down

What does broken-down mean?
Broken-down means which has broken down and, as a result, is no longer in working order.
What is broken-down in Malayalam?
Broken-down in Malayalam is തകർന്ന, ജീർണ്ണിച്ച, പഴകിപ്പൊളിഞ്ഞ. See Broken-down meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is broken-down?
Broken-down is an adjective.

Words near broken-down in the dictionary

  1. broken windows policing
  2. broken windows theory
  3. broken with
  4. broken with tradition
  5. broken-backed
  6. broken-down
  7. broken-down valise
  8. broken-down valises
  9. broken-handed
  10. broken-heart syndrome
  11. broken-hearted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: broken-down (page history and authors); broken-down (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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