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Meaning of BROKEN-DOWN

Pronunciation:  'browkun dawn

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
  2. [adj]  not in working order; "had to push the broken-down car"; "a broken-down tractor fit only for children to play on"
 
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 Synonyms: bedraggled, damaged, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down, unserviceable, unsound
 

 

 

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 Related Terms: battered, beaten up, beat-up, brokenhearted, crushed, cut up, decrepit, derelict, desolated, dilapidated, dingy, heartbroken, heart-stricken, heart-struck, in ruins, inundated, overcome, overwhelmed, ramshackle, ruined, ruinous, run-down, seedy, slummy, stricken, tacky, tattered, threadbare, tottery, tumbledown, undone
 

 

 

 

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