(a) physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; or legally or emotionally destroyed; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken"; "children from broken homes"; "a broken marriage"; "a broken heart"

(a) (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded; "broken (or unkept) promises"; "broken contracts"

(a) not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly; "broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs"

(s) lacking a part or parts; "a broken set of encyclopedia"

(s) discontinuous; "broken clouds"; "broken sunshine"

(s) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken'); "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted"

(s) destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"

(s) weakened and infirm; "broken health resulting from alcoholism"

(s) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset"

(s) imperfectly spoken or written; "broken English"

(s) subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"

(s) topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground"

(s) tamed or trained to obey; "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in"

(n) massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws

(n) an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price

(v) have on one's person; "He wore a red ribbon"; "bear a scar"

(v) give birth (to a newborn); "My wife had twins yesterday!"

(v) be pregnant with; "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child"

(v) put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

(v) move while holding up or supporting; "Bear gifts"; "bear a heavy load"; "bear news"; "bearing orders"

(v) support or hold in a certain manner; "She holds her head high"; "He carried himself upright"

(v) bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"; "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers"

(v) bring in; "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?"

(v) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility"

(v) have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices; "She bears the title of Duchess"; "He held the governorship for almost a decade"

(v) behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"

(v) have; "bear a resemblance"; "bear a signature"

(v) contain or hold; have within; "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water"

(n) weight to be borne or conveyed

(n) an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind"

(n) the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse

(n) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

(v) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"

(v) weight down with a load

(n) the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing

(n) a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"

(n) a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"

(n) the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat"

(n) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

(n) the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum"

(n) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"

(n) a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"

(n) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior

(n) a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations

(v) wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam"

(v) be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"

(v) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"

(v) beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"

(v) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"

(v) hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"

(v) strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting

(v) strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically"

(v) stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"

(v) shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares"

(v) produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum"

(v) make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest"

(v) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement"

(v) move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"

(v) indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm"

(v) sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind"

(v) move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping"

(v) move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"

(v) glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us"

(v) make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"

(v) make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"

(v) avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"

(v) be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!"

(n) any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole caboodle"

(n) a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers"

(n) an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd"

(v) gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist"; "The students bunched up at the registration desk"

(v) form into a bunch; "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom"

(n) a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms"

(n) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

(n) the lower side of anything

(n) the lowest part of anything; "they started at the bottom of the hill"

(n) a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed"

(n) low-lying alluvial land near a river

(n) the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat

(v) come to understand

(v) strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom

(v) provide with a bottom or a seat; "bottom the chairs"

(s) the lowest rank; "bottom member of the class"

(s) at the bottom; lowest or last; "the bottom price"