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Meanings of broken-backed in English

(Of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end.

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Broken-backed.

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Examples for "hogged"
1
While the visitors hogged possession, St Johnstone did threaten on the break.
BBC
2
When his eyes lolled, the truck hogged the center of the road.
Winter’s Bone
3
Pushcarts, stalls, and tables full of merchandise hogged space along the main arteries.
The lost girls: three friends. four continents. one unconvention...
4
Folk still hogged pavement tables, reluctant to abandon their wine beakers and gaming-boards.
Venus In Copper
5
The woman hogged the armrest and her bulging elbow kept oozing into his side.
Apocalypse of the Dead

Broken-backed.

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Usage of broken-backed in English
1
He drew a broken-backed chair to the table and set to business.
The Rules of the Game
2
Think me an overwrought fool; a broken-backed corn-stalk, if you choose.
The Great Amulet
3
The speaker indicated a broken-backed rocker encumbered with damp clothes, newspapers, and books.
The Ne'er-Do-Well
4
Nevertheless he is broken-hearted; and I am very good-natured too, and I am broken-backed.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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Not one of its wriggling, broken-backed streets has handsome shops in an unbroken row.
Put Yourself in His Place
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It's a curious, broken-backed piece of theatre in many respects.
The Guardian
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It gave the impression of a broken-backed animal driven to the ground by its burden.
The story of edgar sawtelle
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I'm not conceited enough to imagine that a broken-backed cripple could make any lasting impression.
Red Pepper's Patients / With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in...
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When the broken-backed schoolmaster had finished his story, the old man with the wry-mouth thus began:
The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Volume 04
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Davidson saw the skirt envelop the broken-backed deputy and appear to suck him into its folds.
Complete Books of Blood
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All the fun had gone out of it, as the occasional broken-backed pirouette could not disguise.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
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Their protective coloration was perfect, for they looked half-timbered and broken-backed and thatched and little-windowed, too.
The Sirens of Titan
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As with drug laws and penal reform, Britain's broken-backed politicians are the last refuge of social illiberalism.
The Guardian
14
But for me it would have been the despicable, broken-backed, disjointed, inharmonious figure five hundred and fifty-four.
Alarms and Discursions
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She accepted Clo's suggestion to sit on the bed, which was more comfortable than the one broken-backed chair.
The Lion's Mouse
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It wiggled like a broken-backed snake.
The Laughing Corpse
Broken-backed through the time