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Synonyms & Antonyms of broke
(Entry 1 of 2)
- too broke to afford even a used car
Synonyms for broke
- beggared,
- beggarly,
- destitute,
- dirt-poor,
- down-and-out,
- famished,
- hard up,
- impecunious,
- impoverished,
- indigent,
- necessitous,
- needful,
- needy,
- pauperized,
- penniless,
- penurious,
- poor,
- poverty-stricken,
- skint
- [chiefly British],
- threadbare
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- affluent,
- deep-pocketed,
- fat,
- fat-cat,
- flush,
- moneyed
- (also monied),
- opulent,
- rich,
- silk-stocking,
- wealthy,
- well-heeled,
- well-off,
- well-to-do
broke
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of broke (Entry 2 of 2)
- hated telling her that I had broken her favorite glass vase
Synonyms for broke
- broke up,
- busted
- (also bust),
- disintegrated,
- dismembered,
- disrupted,
- fractured,
- fragmented,
- rived
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- the final vote broke the deadlock
Synonyms for broke
- broke off,
- broke up,
- canned
- [slang],
- ceased,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- desisted (from),
- discontinued,
- dropped,
- ended,
- gave over,
- halted,
- knocked off,
- laid off,
- left off,
- packed (up or in),
- quit
- (also quitted),
- shut off,
- stopped
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- the captain was broken to lieutenant commander for disobeying a direct order from his group commander
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- Alan Turing and the Bletchley Park mathematicians broke the Enigma code being used by the Nazis
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- she broke from her ruminations to find that it was already dinnertime
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- farmers once broke fields with horse-drawn plows
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- had to confess that he had broken his promise not to share their conversation with anyone
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- Professor Bates broke the problem when she realized that it was possible to synthesize the necessary compounds
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- I broke a tooth on the hard candy
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- after working for 30 years, the pump simply broke one day
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- the herd of gazelles broke when they saw the lions racing toward them from the ridge above
Synonyms for broke
- bolted,
- bugged out,
- fled,
- flew,
- hightailed (it),
- ran
- (also chiefly dialectal run),
- ran away,
- ran off,
- retreated,
- skedaddled
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- absconded,
- cleared out,
- decamped,
- eloped,
- escaped,
- got (away),
- got out,
- lammed,
- lit
- (or lighted out),
- made off,
- mizzled
- [chiefly British],
- scarpered
- [British],
- scatted,
- scrammed,
- skipped (out),
- skirred
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- the trek up the mountain just about broke me
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- as soon as the scandal broke, the CEO fled the country
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- another bad investment could break him
Synonyms for broke
- bankrupted,
- busted
- (also bust),
- ruined
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- the crisis had passed, and a new day was breaking
Synonyms for broke
- actualized,
- appeared,
- arose,
- began,
- commenced,
- dawned,
- engendered,
- formed,
- materialized,
- originated,
- set in,
- sprang
- (or sprung),
- started
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- the running back broke to his left before running out of bounds
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- distressing economic news that will break many energy stocks
Synonyms for broke
- attenuated,
- cheapened,
- depreciated,
- depressed,
- devaluated,
- devalued,
- downgraded,
- lowered,
- marked down,
- reduced,
- sank
- (or sunk),
- wrote down,
- wrote off
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- a menu with prices that is likely to break the budgets of all but the wealthiest of diners
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“Broke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broke. Accessed 27 Sep. 2022.
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The first known use of broke was in 1710
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