(Especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded.
1
Their message is loud and clear: fix the broken food aid system.
2
However, without a clear structure or focus such resolutions are easily broken.
3
Last year, I made fixing our broken housing market my personal mission.
4
However a number of windows had been broken in the unoccupied house.
5
She'd probably readily agree; the past days had broken down her defenses.
6
I believe that democracy in South Africa is for all intents broken.
7
The politics are broken. Trump takes a much more aggressive political approach.
8
I thought of Tour de France riders who continue with broken bones.
9
Of course Martin had been broken; it was absurd to think otherwise.
10
However, according to the National Lottery's figures, this promise has been broken.
11
Others spoke in low voices and broken sentences she couldn't quite understand.
12
The protest, was broken up by security forces firing weapons, residents said.
13
Today any settlement that forms is quickly broken up by the authorities.
14
The stone steps are disjointed; the bell-cord is rotten; the gutter-spouts broken.
15
He had done something to his hand, he said; perhaps broken something.
16
However, the broken pump which caused the issue has now been fixed.
