1. • noun - some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
   • noun - an unexpected piece of good luck
   • noun - (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
   • noun - a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
   • noun - a pause from doing something (as work)
   • noun - the act of breaking something
   • noun - a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
   • noun - breaking of hard tissue such as bone
   • noun - the occurrence of breaking
   • noun - an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
   • noun - the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
   • noun - (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
   • noun - an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
   • noun - a sudden dash
   • noun - any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
   • noun - an escape from jail
   • adj - physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
   • adj - not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
   • adj - subdued or brought low in condition or status
   • adj - (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded
   • adj - tamed or trained to obey
   • adj - topographically very uneven
   • adj - imperfectly spoken or written
   • adj - thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
   • adj - weakened and infirm
   • adj - destroyed financially
   • adj - out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken')
   • adj - discontinuous
   • adj - lacking a part or parts
2. • Forcibly separated into two or more pieces; fractured: a broken arm; broken glass.
   • Sundered by divorce, separation, or desertion of a parent or parents: children from broken homes; a broken marriage.
   • Having been violated: a broken promise.
   • Incomplete: a broken set of books.
   • Being in a state of disarray; disordered: troops fleeing in broken ranks.
   • Intermittently stopping and starting; discontinuous: a broken cable transmission.
   • Varying abruptly, as in pitch: broken sobs.
   • Spoken with gaps and errors: broken English.
   • Topographically rough; uneven: broken terrain.
   • Subdued totally; humbled: a broken spirit.
   • Weakened and infirm: broken health.
   • Crushed by grief: died of a broken heart.
   • Financially ruined; bankrupt.
   • Not functioning; out of order: a broken washing machine.
3. • adv - shattered [adj] : BROKENLY

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