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- a broken vase that could not be repaired
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- the broken rim of the antique vase greatly reduces its value
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- that portion of the hiking trail consists of a long, broken mountain ridge
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of broken (Entry 2 of 2)
- hated telling her that I had broken her favorite glass vase
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- broken up,
- busted
- (also bust),
- disintegrated,
- dismembered,
- disrupted,
- fractured,
- fragmented,
- riven
- (also rived)
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- the final vote broke the deadlock
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- broken off,
- broken up,
- canned
- [slang],
- ceased,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- desisted (from),
- discontinued,
- dropped,
- ended,
- given 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
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- absconded,
- cleared out,
- decamped,
- eloped,
- escaped,
- got (away)
- (or gotten (away)),
- got out
- (or gotten 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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- circulated,
- come out,
- got about
- (or gotten about),
- got around
- (or gotten around),
- got out
- (or gotten out),
- got round
- (or gotten round),
- leaked (out),
- outed,
- spread
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- another bad investment could break him
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- bankrupted,
- busted
- (also bust),
- ruined
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- the crisis had passed, and a new day was breaking
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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
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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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“Broken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broken. Accessed 28 May. 2022.
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