broken

意味: 壊れた

例文: Haruki fixed the broken chair with noodles.
　　  ハルキは壊れた椅子を麺で修理した。

定義: 終わらす

コロケーション:

brokenは10,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Verb: terminate
Verb: become separated into pieces or fragments
Verb: render inoperable or ineffective
Verb: ruin completely
Verb: destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
Verb: act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
Verb: move away or escape suddenly
Verb: scatter or part
Verb: force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
Verb: prevent completion
Verb: enter someone’s (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
Verb: make submissive, obedient, or useful
Verb: fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
Verb: surpass in excellence
Verb: make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
Verb: come into being
Verb: stop operating or functioning
Verb: interrupt a continued activity
Verb: make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one’s own by quitting or fleeing
Verb: curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
Verb: lessen in force or effect
Verb: be broken in
Verb: come to an end
Verb: vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
Verb: cause to give up a habit
Verb: give up
Verb: come forth or begin from a state of latency
Verb: happen or take place
Verb: cause the failure or ruin of
Verb: invalidate by judicial action
Verb: discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
Verb: assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
Verb: reduce to bankruptcy
Verb: change directions suddenly
Verb: emerge from the surface of a body of water
Verb: break down, literally or metaphorically
Verb: do a break dance
Verb: exchange for smaller units of money
Verb: destroy the completeness of a set of related items
Verb: make the opening shot that scatters the balls
Verb: separate from a clinch, in boxing
Verb: go to pieces
Verb: break a piece from a whole
Verb: become punctured or penetrated
Verb: pierce or penetrate
Verb: be released or become known; of news
Verb: cease an action temporarily
Verb: interrupt the flow of current in
Verb: undergo breaking
Verb: find a flaw in
Verb: find the solution or key to
Verb: change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
Verb: happen
Verb: become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
Verb: crack; of the male voice in puberty
Verb: fall sharply
Verb: fracture a bone of
Verb: diminish or discontinue abruptly
Verb: weaken or destroy in spirit or body
Adjective: physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
Adjective: not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
Adjective: subdued or brought low in condition or status
Adjective: (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded
Adjective: tamed or trained to obey
Adjective: topographically very uneven
Adjective: imperfectly spoken or written
Adjective: thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
Adjective: weakened and infirm
Adjective: destroyed financially
Adjective: out of working order (`busted’ is an informal substitute for `broken’)
Adjective: discontinuous
Adjective: lacking a part or parts

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

Verb: She interrupted her pregnancy
Verb: break a lucky streak
Verb: break the cycle of poverty
Verb: The figurine broke
Verb: The freshly baked loaf fell apart
Verb: You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!
Verb: He busted my radio!
Verb: He broke the glass plate
Verb: She broke the match
Verb: offend all laws of humanity
Verb: violate the basic laws or human civilization
Verb: break a law
Verb: break a promise
Verb: The horses broke from the stable
Verb: Three inmates broke jail
Verb: Nobody can break out–this prison is high security
Verb: The clouds broke after the heavy downpour
Verb: break into tears
Verb: erupt in anger
Verb: stop the project
Verb: break off the negotiations
Verb: Someone broke in while I was on vacation
Verb: They broke into my car and stole my radio!
Verb: who broke into my account last night?
Verb: The horse was tough to break
Verb: I broke in the new intern
Verb: This sentence violates the rules of syntax
Verb: She bettered her own record
Verb: break a record
Verb: The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold
Verb: The actress won’t reveal how old she is
Verb: bring out the truth
Verb: he broke the news to her
Verb: unwrap the evidence in the murder case
Verb: light broke over the horizon
Verb: Voices broke in the air
Verb: The engine finally went
Verb: The car died on the road
Verb: The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
Verb: The coffee maker broke
Verb: The engine failed on the way to town
Verb: her eyesight went after the accident
Verb: She had broken with the traditional patterns
Verb: The ranks broke
Verb: The surf broke
Verb: soften a shock
Verb: break a fall
Verb: If the new teacher won’t break, we’ll add some stress
Verb: The heat wave finally broke yesterday
Verb: The flat plain was broken by tall mesas
Verb: She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes
Verb: break cigarette smoking
Verb: The first winter storm broke over New York
Verb: Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months
Verb: His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage
Verb: This play will either make or break the playwright
Verb: The will was broken
Verb: The business partners broke over a tax question
Verb: The couple separated after 25 years of marriage
Verb: My friend and I split up
Verb: She was demoted because she always speaks up
Verb: He was broken down to Sergeant
Verb: My daughter’s fancy wedding is going to break me!
Verb: The slump in the financial markets smashed him
Verb: The whales broke
Verb: The wall collapsed
Verb: The business collapsed
Verb: The dam broke
Verb: The roof collapsed
Verb: The wall gave in
Verb: The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice
Verb: Kids were break-dancing at the street corner
Verb: I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy
Verb: The book dealer would not break the set
Verb: The referee broke the boxers
Verb: The lawn mower finally broke
Verb: The gears wore out
Verb: The old chair finally fell apart completely
Verb: break a branch from a tree
Verb: The skin broke
Verb: The blade broke her skin
Verb: News of her death broke in the morning
Verb: We pause for station identification
Verb: let’s break for lunch
Verb: break a circuit
Verb: The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages
Verb: break an alibi
Verb: break down a proof
Verb: break the code
Verb: Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children
Verb: Report the news as it develops
Verb: These political movements recrudesce from time to time
Verb: The glass cracked when it was heated
Verb: his voice is breaking–he should no longer sing in the choir
Verb: stock prices broke
Verb: I broke my foot while playing hockey
Verb: The patient’s fever broke last night
Verb: His resistance was broken
Verb: a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death
Adjective: a broken mirror
Adjective: a broken tooth
Adjective: a broken leg
Adjective: his neck is broken
Adjective: broken lines of defense
Adjective: a broken cable transmission
Adjective: broken sleep
Adjective: tear off the stub above the broken line
Adjective: a broken note
Adjective: broken sobs
Adjective: brought low
Adjective: a broken man
Adjective: his broken spirit
Adjective: broken (or unkept) promises
Adjective: broken contracts
Adjective: a horse broken to the saddle
Adjective: this old nag is well broken in
Adjective: broken terrain
Adjective: rugged ground
Adjective: broken English
Adjective: troops fleeing in broken ranks
Adjective: a confused mass of papers on the desk
Adjective: the small disordered room
Adjective: with everything so upset
Adjective: broken health resulting from alcoholism
Adjective: the broken fortunes of the family
Adjective: a broken washing machine
Adjective: the coke machine is broken
Adjective: the coke machine is busted
Adjective: broken clouds
Adjective: broken sunshine
Adjective: a broken set of encyclopedia

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): bankrupt, better, breach, break, break away, break dance, break down, break in, break off, break out, break up, break-dance, bring out, broken, broken in, bump, burst, bust, busted, cave in, check, collapse, come apart, confused, conk out, crack, crushed, damp, dampen, demote, develop, die, disclose, discontinue, discover, disordered, divulge, erupt, expose, fail, fall apart, fall in, founder, fracture, get around, get out, give, give away, give out, give way, go, go against, go bad, humbled, humiliated, impoverished, infract, intermit, interrupt, kick downstairs, let on, let out, low, offend, part, pause, recrudesce, relegate, reveal, rugged, ruin, separate, smash, snap off, soften, split, split up, stop, transgress, unkept, unwrap, upset, violate, weaken, wear, wear out, wiped out

Antonyms(反意語): conform to, keep, make, promote, repair, unbroken

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): appear, become, change, change integrity, change state, collapse, come forth, damage, dance, deaden, decay, decrease, delegate, destroy, detach, diphthongize, discontinue, disperse, disrespect, domesticate, end, escape, express emotion, flee, happen, impoverish, injure, interrupt, invalidate, penetrate, ruin, separate, shoot, solve, surpass, switch, tell, trespass, weaken

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abate, abort, abscond, accelerate, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, acidify, activate, adapt, adjourn, adjust, aerosolize, affect, afflict, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, alkalize, allegorize, alter, alternate, americanize, angulate, animize, announce, answer, anticipate, antiquate, antique, archaize, arise, arterialize, ascend, ash, assibilate, assimilate, assume, automatize, avianize, awaken, ax, backfire, bang up, bankrupt, barb, barbarize, basset, be born, become, befall, beggar, belly dance, bespeak, bestialize, better, bilge, birdie, blend, blind, blister, blunt, blur, bogey, boil, boil down, boogie, bop, break, break dance, break down, break in, break into, break through, break up, break with, brighten, bring, bruise, brutalize, bubble, buckle, bump, burn, burst in on, bust up, cakewalk, calcify, calk, call it quits, calm, camp, capacitate, capitalize, capture, carbonate, carbonize, carnify, carom, caseate, cast, catalyze, catch, catch on, cause to sleep, centralize, cha-cha, chance, change by reversal, change integrity, change intensity, change magnitude, change posture, change shape, change state, change surface, change taste, charge, charleston, chasten, check, cheese, chime in, chip, chondrify, circularize, citrate, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clinker, clog, close, close out, closure, clot, cloud, cloud over, coarsen, cohere, coke, collapse, color, come, come around, come in, come on, come round, come to, come to light, come to mind, commercialize, communize, commute, compartmentalize, complete, complexify, complicate, conceive, concentrate, conclude, concretize, concur, concuss, condense, confuse, conga, conjugate, constitutionalize, consume, contaminate, contradance, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrode, corrupt, counterchange, crack, crackle, crash, creolize, cripple, crop up, cross-fertilize, crumble, cry, crystallize, culminate, curdle, cure, customize, cut, cut out, damage, dampen, darken, dawn, de-emphasize, de-energize, de-escalate, deaden, deaminate, decalcify, decarboxylate, decay, decelerate, decentralize, decide, decimalize, decline, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, decrescendo, deepen, defect, defervesce, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, delegate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demote, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, denitrify, deodorize, deoxidize, depersonalize, depolarize, depreciate, depress, desalinate, desensitize, destabilize, detach, deteriorate, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, devitalize, devolve, devour, die, digest, digitize, digress, dilute, dim, dinge, diphthongize, dirty, disable, disassociate, disco, discolor, disconnect, discontinue, disengage, disharmonize, disintegrate, disjoin, disjoint, disorder, disperse, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, distill, disturb, disunify, diversify, divide, divorce, dizzy, do a job on, domesticate, dope, double bogey, draw, dress, drift, drop, drop off, dry, dull, dunk, dwindle, dynamize, eagle, ease up, edit, elope, elude, emaciate, emancipate, emasculate, embrittle, emerge, empty, emulsify, enable, end, enervate, enfeeble, equal, equilibrate, erode, eroticize, erupt, escape, esterify, estrange, etherealize, etherify, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, explode, extend, exteriorize, fail, fall, fall for, fatten, felt, feminize, fertilize, fill, finalize, finish, fix, flash, flatten, flaw, flip, flocculate, flop, fluctuate, fly, fold, folk dance, foray, form, format, foul, foxtrot, fracture, freeze, frenchify, freshen, frost, full, gain, gasify, gel, gelatinize, get, get into, get worse, gin, give, give the axe, give way, glamorize, glaze, glorify, go off, go out, gradate, graze, grind, grow, guess, gum, habituate, happen, harden, harm, harmonize, harry, harshen, have, heat, heckle, heel, high-tail, homogenize, honeycomb, hoof, hue, humanize, humble, hurt, hush, hydrate, hydrogenate, hydrolyze, ice up, immaterialize, immerse, immortalize, impair, impart, implode, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, indurate, industrialize, inflate, inform, ingrain, inseminate, insulate, integrate, intensify, interject, internationalize, interpenetrate, interrupt, intervene, introject, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, ionize, islamize, isomerize, jam, jellify, jig, jitterbug, jive, joint, keratinize, kick, kick in, knife, knuckle, laicize, lament, lapse, laugh, launder, lay waste to, leap, leap out, leave, leave off, legitimate, lend, let out, liberalize, lifehack, lift, lighten, liquefy, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, maim, make, mambo, mandate, manifest, mar, mark, masculinize, mature, mechanize, mellow, militarize, mince, mix, modernize, modify, modulate, mold, morph, move, muddy, mutate, mutilate, mythologize, narrow, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, obscure, obsolesce, obtund, occidentalize, occult, officialize, one-step, ooze through, opacify, opalize, open, operate, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, out-herod, outbrave, outcrop, outdraw, outfox, outgrow, outmarch, outmode, outpace, outrange, outroar, outsail, outsell, outshine, outshout, outwear, outweigh, outwit, overgrow, oxidise, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, partition, pass, pass away, pasteurize, patent, pause, peep, percolate, permeate, personalize, petrify, phase out, pierce, piggyback, place, plasticize, play out, poison, poke into, polarize, politicize, polka, polymerize, pop out, port, post, precipitate, prim, probe, proceed, professionalize, promote, proof, propagandize, prostrate, publicize, pull, pull the plug, punctuate, purify, put, put away, quickstep, radicalize, rail, rape, rarefy, rationalize, react, reappear, recede, receive, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, rectify, recur, reduce, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, regenerate, regiment, regress, rejuvenate, relax, remit, remodel, reorient, repeat, repress, restore, result, resume, reticulate, retire, revolutionize, rhumba, riddle, right, ripen, rise, roll, roll in, romanticize, round off, ruin, run, run away, run down, run low, run out, rusticate, salinate, samba, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, secede, secularize, sensitize, sentimentalize, separate, sequester, set, settle, sever, sexualize, shade, shag, shake, shallow, shame, shape, sharpen, shatter, shear, shift, shimmy, shipwreck, shoot, shorten, show, shrink, shrivel, shut off, sign off, simplify, skank, skin, slam dance, slenderize, slip, slump, smoothen, smut, sneak in, sober, sober up, socialize, soften, solarize, solemnize, solidify, solvate, sorb, sour, specialize, spice, spike, spill, spot, sputter, square dance, stabilize, stagnate, stain, stamp out, stampede, steepen, stet, stiffen, still, stop, storm, straighten, stratify, strengthen, strike, string, stub out, sublime, subluxate, substitute, suburbanize, subvert, suffuse, superannuate, supercharge, supervene, supple, surf, suspend, sweeten, swing, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, synthesize, take, take effect, take in, take off, tame, tango, tap dance, tapdance, taper, task, tear, temper, tender, tense, territorialize, thicken, thin, thin out, think, thrive, thrombose, tighten, tone down, torture, total, touch, trample, transaminate, transfer, transfigure, transform, transgress, transition, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpire, transpose, traumatize, tunnel, turn, turn back, turn on, turn out, twist, two-step, uglify, ulcerate, unbind, unbrace, unclutter, undergo, undo, undulate, unhook, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, unwrap, urbanize, utilize, validate, vandalize, vanish, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, volley, vulcanize, vulgarise, wake up, waltz, wane, warm, warm up, wash out, wash up, weaken, weaponize, weather, wet, whittle away, widen, wilt, work, worsen, zonk out

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): betray, blackwash, blow, blow out, bog down, break, break down, break in, break up, break with, buckle, burst, come out of the closet, confide, conflict, crack, crash, crush, cut short, dampen, deafen, disassociate, disunify, divorce, drop the ball, flop, fly in the face of, fracture, fray, freeze, give the axe, hold on, implode, interrupt, ladder, leak, malfunction, misfire, muckrake, out, puncture, reduce, rest, reveal, secede, shatter, sideline, sin, slump, smash, snap, spill the beans, spring, take five, take ten, trespass

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: bankruptcy, better, breach, break, break dance, break-in, breakable, breakage, breakdown, breaker, breakout, breakup, bust, buster, cave in, check, collapse, damper, demotion, development, disclosure, discontinuation, discovery, divulgement, divulgence, expose, exposure, failure, fracture, giveaway, infraction, intermission, lowness, offence, offender, offense, offensive, pause, recrudescence, relegation, revealing, revelation, ruggedness, separation, separatist, split, stop, transgression, transgressor, violable, violation, violative, violator, weakener, wear

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: economics, law

Usage Category: informal

Usage Context: business, conversation, descriptive, online

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): en

Exam Level

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Frozen, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anger, fear, negative, sadness