broken
/ˈbɹoʊ.kɪn/ adjectif A1En français : cassé, fracturé, discontinu, traitillé
- Fragmented; in separate pieces. · One recent morning the team had to replace a broken weather research station.
- Fractured; having the bone in pieces. · My arm is broken!· The ground was littered with broken bones.
- Split or ruptured. · A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken.
- Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- Interrupted; not continuous.
- Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds. · Tomorrow: broken skies.
- Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
- Breached; violated; not kept. · broken promises of neutrality· broken vows
Dans la bibliothèque
There was a silence which was broken by Sherlock Holmes.
Now while the tinsmiths had been at work mending the Woodman himself, another of the Winkies, who was a goldsmith, had made an axe-handle of solid gold and fitted it to the Woodman’s axe, instead of the old broken handle.
His axe was near him, but the blade was rusted and the handle broken off short.
And when the tinsmiths came, bringing with them all their tools in baskets, she inquired, “Can you straighten out those dents in the Tin Woodman, and bend him back into shape again, and solder him together where he is broken?”
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