Crossword-Solution: BROKEN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Broken | p. p. | of Break |
| Broken | v. t. | Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. |
| Broken | v. t. | Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. |
| Broken | v. t. | Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship. |
| Broken | v. t. | Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships. |
| Broken | v. t. | Subdued; humbled; contrite. |
| Broken | v. t. | Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse. |
| Broken | v. t. | Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted. |
| Broken | v. t. | Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law. |
| Broken | v. t. | Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman. |
| Broken | v. t. | Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BROKEN (5)
You don’t think I would send her away all by herself when she is frightened!” For a moment the circle of light was broken, and something gave Peter a loving little pinch.
Till at sunset Hiawatha, Leaning on his bow of ash-tree, Wounded, weary, and desponding, With his mighty war-club broken, With his mittens torn and tattered, And three useless arrows only, Paused to rest beneath a pine-tree, From whose branches trailed the mosses, And whose trunk was coated over With the Dead-man’s Moccasin-leather, With the fungus white and yellow.
Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders.
VIII When old Ivar climbed down from his loft at four o’clock the next morning, he came upon Emil’s mare, jaded and lather-stained, her bridle broken, chewing the scattered tufts of hay outside the stable door.
His head began to ache in an unwonted manner, and, fancying himself weary by reason of the broken rests of the preceding nights, Oak decided to get up, open the slide, and then allow himself to fall asleep.
Quotes with BROKEN (3)
Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in…
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeem…
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1976–2025).