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{
"term": "broken",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"image": "data/images/br/broken_chipped_cracked.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "that has been damaged or injured; no longer whole or working correctly",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a broken window/plate"
},
{
"text": "a **broken leg/arm/bone**"
},
{
"text": "pieces of **broken glass**"
},
{
"text": "How did this dish **get broken**?"
},
{
"text": "The TV's broken."
},
{
"text": "They opened the bag and found a **broken bottle**."
},
{
"text": "The UN system is broken beyond repair."
},
{
"text": "His front tooth was broken in half."
},
{
"text": "One of her patients was a cat with a badly broken leg."
}
],
"topics": ["Health problems"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "get"],
"adverb": ["badly"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "not kept",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Voters are disillusioned with the government's broken promises."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "ended or destroyed",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **broken marriage/engagement**"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "not continuous; interrupted or disturbed",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a night of broken sleep"
},
{
"text": "a single broken white line across the road"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "made weak and tired by illness or difficulties",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He was a broken man after the failure of his business."
}
],
"topics": ["Feelings"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "spoken slowly and with a lot of mistakes; not fluent",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to speak in broken English"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 7,
"definition": "having a rough surface",
"examples": [
{
"text": "an area of broken, rocky ground"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "in a way that keeps repeating a statement or opinion in an annoying way",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I hate sounding like a broken record, but I have to say again, we must do more to help."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbrəʊkən/",
"audio": "br/broken/broken__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbrəʊkən/",
"audio": "br/broken/broken__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}