(v. t.) Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships.
(v. t.) Subdued; humbled; contrite.
(v. t.) Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.
(v. t.) Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted.
(v. t.) Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law.
(v. t.) Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results suggest that Cd-MT is reabsorbed and broken down by kidney tubule cells in a physiological manner with possible subsequent release of the toxic cadmium ion.
(2) The starting point is the idea that the current system, because it works against biodiversity but fails to increase productivity, is broken.
(3) Again, the boys in care that he abused now speak to us as broken adults.
(4) I think they want to set an example … I don't see anyone who has broken the law."
(5) Records were broken on seats lost and swings suffered.
(6) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(7) The organizers of the protest march he participated in said the man had fallen ill before any rioting had broken out.
(8) In June 2012 we got our first elected president, and, in his first year in office, the state's monopoly on violence was broken.
(9) Ings twisted the knee during his first training session with Klopp in charge and tests have shown the former Burnley forward ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament, meaning that a player who has just broken into England’s senior team will be out for a minimum of six months.
(10) Regardless of cyst localization, lowest diagnostic sensitivity was observed in patients whose cysts were intact and of the hyaline type, whereas recently broken cysts were associated with the most consistently detectable immune response.
(11) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(12) Don was racing the Dodge through the Bonneville Salt Flats , where Gary Gabelich had just (on 23 October) broken the land-speed record.
(13) The time course for these events suggested that the genetic code for synthesis of thymidine kinase can be expressed before "cores" are broken down, but the DNA-polymerase can be synthesized only after liberation of the viral DNA.
(14) Chemical analyses of the radioactive species in the incubation medium showed that a considerable portion of the radiolabeled sugar nucleotide had broken down to cytidine, phosphoric acid, and sialic acid.
(15) She also said that US embassy officials and doctors – who had been blocked from seeing Chen – met him on Friday.said that They said Chen had three broken bones from his escape, and his foot was in a cast.
(16) The size of the broken stone fragments was less than 2 mm in 24 cases (68.5%) and 2 to 5 mm in 10 cases (28.6%), which indicated that the procedure was very effective.
(17) Mohammed Salama, 23, an Al Ahly ultra whose leg was broken in the stadium riot, said it became clear at half-time in the match between the two historical foes that trouble was brewing.
(18) "For so long, management kept us down; they've broken us and bullied us," he said.
(19) Patrick Vieira, captain and on-pitch embodiment of Wenger’s reign, won the trophy with the last kick of his career at the club in the season when the Arsenal-United axis was finally broken by Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
(20) Trierweiler has broken a fundamental principle of French political life, an unwritten law inherited from the Ancien Régime and perpetuated by France's revolutionary nomenklatura, that the private life – and by that I mean sex life – of a public figure must remain inviolable.
Crazy
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
(a.) Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.
(a.) Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager.
Example Sentences:
(1) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
(2) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
(3) I saw my dad sitting in the audience, looking at me like, “Yes, he really is crazy.” Having listened to thousands of people, I realised we had a narrow view of what the environment is.
(4) Updated at 8.17pm GMT 8.14pm GMT Yet another crazy statistic Seems like we’ve had a few of these today.
(5) Then their daughter comes in, or their wife, or their girlfriend, and they've just been to Pilates, and the next day they start looking up Pilates porn, or something crazy like that, and they feel even worse.
(6) The Hull City manager, Steve Bruce , has admitted his side need to pull off a couple of “crazy results” if they are to preserve their Premier League status in a frantic end-of-season run-in.
(7) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
(8) As soon as I called them and was like, 'Hey guys, it's OK, I'm not smoking meth or anything,' it was OK." He adds, frowning: "I don't really know why it happened… My girlfriend told me everyone had been saying, [he puts on a sulky voice] 'Man, Mac's shows aren't crazy any more.'
(9) "I remember ... crying and thinking, 'I'm just gonna go crazy on him one day.'"
(10) This may sound crazy, but with each passing day, Major League Soccer, which shares part of sporting calendar with the baseball season, becomes more and more of a long term threat to MLB, never mind what happens when the NFL kicks off in September.
(11) If you can't get your child into there … It's crazy.
(12) Her mother said she had made her “so proud” and her “gorgeous crazy” partner had made her world “a happy place”.
(13) "I knew that police officers had been hurt and things were on fire and it had all got crazy," the constable said.
(14) You see Nadal play a tennis match,” Godín explains, “and it drives you crazy because he always does the same thing and the guy is No1.
(15) In his book Fight the Power , Chuck rails against everything from Hollywood to the sports industry for portraying blacks as 'watermelon stealin', chicken eatin', knee knockin', eye poppin' lazy, crazy, dancin', submissive, Toms.
(16) After a stroke (left hemisphere), which mainly produced serious aphasia, I (the patient) felt crazy two or three times when someone said something I expected him to say.
(17) But at the same time we were supporting the industry and talking it up, which it deserves, some of our competitors were talking it down in their own products … that’s just crazy and a lack of leadership that frankly is irresponsible and it’s got to stop.” In a rare public appearance to mark the Australian newspaper’s 50th anniversary, Mitchell said the broadsheet newspaper was worth $50m in “cover price revenue” alone and it was too soon to walk away from print.
(18) "Like" is a preposition, said the accusers, and may take only a noun phrase object, as in "crazy like a fox" or "like a bat out of hell".
(19) And rare to see scripted too – normally women are only allowed to look dangerous if they’re playing a crazy person.
(20) She could actually be crazy,” and implying that she had been unfaithful for her husband.