BROKEN OFF Synonyms: 109 Similar and Opposite Words

broken off

verb

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past participle of break off

as in stopped

to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end the judge broke off court proceedings until after lunch

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as in ended

to come to an end talks between the two sides broke off when one began making unreasonable demands

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Recent Examples of broken off According to the news release, the vehicle was found parked and unoccupied, with a key broken off in the driver’s door lock. —

Lily Carey, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2026 During meteor showers, Earthlings ooh and aah over bits of rock that have broken off comets or asteroids as the travel around the sun. —

Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2026 During the unmanned Artemis I mission in 2022, engineers discovered more than 100 locations on the Orion heat shield that had cracked and broken off during reentry. —

Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026 It’s been stolen and recovered, had its nose broken off, and for 20 years the city stored it away for safety, which rather defeats the point of public statuary. —

Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026 Firefighters found that the beam had broken off and toppled, throwing the workers roughly 30 feet and trapping one inside a concrete formwork platform. —

Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2026 Photos provided by James showed a football-sized black rock that appeared to be broken off a larger chunk of material. —

Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 22 Mar. 2026 Like Andrew, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick also claimed to have broken off contact with Epstein—in his case, in 2005, after seeing Epstein’s massage room in New York—but the files revealed that the association continued for many years afterward. —

Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026 The same tip had already broken off during an act of vandalism in 2016, Rome’s city hall said. —

ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026

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To encompass the story, about a miracle from 847, when Pope Leo IV stopped a fire with a blessing, Raphael brings you into the fresco through the unshod feet of a woman in agony and leaves you near the very back, with a tiny and serene Leo IV.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
If the game stopped at this point, Fermat’s method for dividing the pot would list all possible outcomes of those five coin flips and then tally the ones that amassed 10 points for each player.

— Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2026