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brokeadjective lacking money or material possessionstoo broke to afford even a used car beggared, beggarly, destitute, dirt-poor, down-and-out, famished, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needful, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, skint(chiefly British), threadbare deprived, disadvantaged, dispossessed, unaffluent, underprivilegedbankrupt, bankrupted, bust(or busted), insolventpossessionless, ruineddepressed, distressed, hand-to-mouth, hardscrabble, pinched, poorish, reduced, straitenedcash-strapped, low, short, tapped out down on one's luck, out at elbows(or out at the elbows), out of pocket affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, moneyed(also monied), opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do comfortable, prosperous to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forciblyhated telling her that I had broken her favorite glass vase broke up, busted(also bust), disintegrated, dismembered, disrupted, fractured, fragmented, rived atomized, crushed, ground, powdered, pulverized, reducedblasted, blew up, burst(also bursted), detonated, explodedcracked, popped, shattered, shivered, smashedchipped, slivered, splintered, splitimplodeddestroyed, ruined, wrecked doctored, fixed, healed, mended, patched, rebuilt, reconditioned, reconstructed, renovated, repaired to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate endthe final vote broke the deadlock broke off, broke up, canned(slang), ceased, cut off, cut out, desisted (from), discontinued, dropped, ended, gave over, halted, knocked off, laid off, left off, packed (up or in), quit(also quitted), shut off, stopped completed, concluded, finishedclosed (down)deactivatedblockaded, blocked, dammed, delayed, detained, held, held back, hindered, impeded, kiboshed, obstructed, stemmedcalled, suspendedarrested, braked, checked, clamped down, reined (in), squashed, squelched, stamped, stanched(or staunched), stunted, suppressed, turned backpaused, stayed, suspendedabolished, aborted, annulled, demolished, destroyed, dissolved, killed, ruined, scuttled, snuffed had done with, put the kibosh on carried on, continued, followed through (with), kept up, ran onadvanced, proceeded, progressedactuated, drove, impelled, propelled, stirred to bring to a lower grade or rankthe captain was broken to lieutenant commander for disobeying a direct order from his group commander busted(also bust), degraded, demoted, disrated, downgraded, reduced canned, cashiered, dismissed, downsized, fired, laid off, sackedabased, debased, demeaned, humbled, humiliated, lowered advanced, elevated, promoted, raised hired to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary languageAlan Turing and the Bletchley Park mathematicians broke the Enigma code being used by the Nazis cracked, deciphered, decoded, decrypted descrambled, unscrambledrendered, translateddoped (out), figured out, puzzled (out), solved, unraveled, unriddled, worked(or wrought), worked out ciphered, coded, enciphered, encoded, encrypted garbled, jumbled (up), mixed (up) to come to a temporary halt in one's activityshe broke from her ruminations to find that it was already dinnertime paused hesitatedbroke in, interruptedceased, discontinued, ended, finished, stopped, terminatedknocked off, laid off, quit(also quitted)lapsed, let up caught one's breath, held one's horses continued, persistedadvanced, progressedextended, prolonged, stretched to cut into and turn over the sod of (a piece of land) using a bladed implementfarmers once broke fields with horse-drawn plows to fail to keephad to confess that he had broken his promise not to share their conversation with anyone breached, contravened, fractured, infringed (on or upon), offended, traduced, transgressed, violated disobeyed, rebelledblew off, brushed (off), disregarded, flouted, ignored, neglected, overlooked, overpassed, passed over, slighted, tuned out, winked (at)dismissed, pooh-poohed(also poohed), scorned, shrugged offdefied, resisted, withstood complied (with), conformed (to), followed, minded, obeyed, observed deferred (to), served, submitted (to), surrendered (to), yielded (to)attended, heard, heeded, listened (to), marked, noted, noticed, regarded, watched to find an answer for through reasoningProfessor Bates broke the problem when she realized that it was possible to synthesize the necessary compounds answered, cracked, doped (out), figured out, puzzled (out), resolved, riddled (out), solved, unraveled, unriddled, worked(or wrought), worked out concluded, decided, deduced, gathered, inferred, judged, reasonedcleared (up), ironed out, straightened (out), unscrambled, untangled, untiedassumed, conjectured, divined, guessed, presumed, speculateddeciphered, decoded to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection ofI broke a tooth on the hard candy blemished, bloodied, compromised, crabbed, crippled, crossed (up), damaged, defaced, disfigured, endamaged, flawed, harmed, hurt, impaired, injured, marred, spoiled(or chiefly British spoilt), vitiated deteriorated, enervated, enfeebled, undermined, weakenederoded, scoured, washed out, wore (away)blighted, tarnisheddented, dinged, dintedbotched, gummed (up), queeredlacerated, woundeddisabled, hamstrung, lamed, maimed, mangled, mutilated, tormented, torturedannihilated, banged up, bashed, battered, clobbered, crushed, dashed, decimated, demolished, desolated, destroyed, devastated, did in, pulverized, razed, ruined, scourged, shattered, smashed, tore down, totaled(or totalled), wasted, wiped out, wrecked doctored, fixed, mended, patched, rebuilt, reconditioned, reconstructed, renovated, repaired, revamped cured, healed, helped, rectified, rehabilitated, remediededited, remodeled, revisedameliorated, bettered, enhanced, enriched, improved, meliorated, perfected, refined to stop functioningafter working for 30 years, the pump simply broke one day broke down, conked (out), crashed, cut out, died, failed, gave out, stalled fizzled, sputtered, wheezedacted up, malfunctionedjammed started (up) to hasten away from something dangerous or frighteningthe herd of gazelles broke when they saw the lions racing toward them from the ridge above bolted, bugged out, fled, flew, hightailed (it), ran(also chiefly dialectical run), ran away, ran off, retreated, skedaddled absconded, cleared out, decamped, eloped, escaped, got (away), got out, lammed, lit(or lighted out), made off, mizzled(chiefly British), scarpered(British), scatted, scrammed, skipped (out), skirred beat a retreat, beat it, made tracks, turned tail bearded, braved, confronted, dared, defied, facedabided(also abode), dwelled(or dwelt), hung around, lingered, remained, stayed, stuck around, tarried to use up all the physical energy ofthe trek up the mountain just about broke me burned out(or burnt out), busted(also bust), did in, did up, drained, exhausted, fagged, fatigued, frazzled, harassed, killed, knocked out, outwore, tired, tuckered (out), washed out, wearied, wore, wore out debilitated, enervated, enfeebled, sapped, wasted, weakened wore to a frazzle activated, energized, invigorated, rejuvenated, strengthened, vitalizedrelaxed, rested, unwound to become knownas soon as the scandal broke, the CEO fled the country came out, circulated, got about, got around, got out, got round, leaked (out), outed, spread developed, transpired, unfoldeddisclosed, revealed, spilled(also spilt), told hushed (up), suppressedconcealed, disguised, hid, maskedsecreted to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debtsanother bad investment could break him bankrupted, busted(also bust), ruined beggared, impoverished, pauperizedreduced, straitenedcleaned (out), wiped out enriched, richened to come into existencethe crisis had passed, and a new day was breaking actualized, appeared, arose, began, commenced, dawned, engendered, formed, materialized, originated, set in, sprang(or sprung), started breathed, existed, lived, subsisted, wasarrived, came on, emergedcoalesced, cohered, shaped (up)continued, endured, lasted, persisted, survived ceased, ended, stopped concluded, desisted, discontinued, finished, halted, quit(also quitted), terminateddisappeared, dissolved, evaporated, vanisheddeparted, died, expired, passed away, perished to depart abruptly from a straight line or coursethe running back broke to his left before running out of bounds cut, sheered, swerved, veered, yawed, zagged, zigged skewed, slewed(also slued)arced, arched, bent, bowed, crooked, curved, hooked, rounded, swept, wheeledabout-faced, pivotedcircled, coiled, curled, looped, spiraled(or spiralled)turned, twisted, wound(also winded)weaved, zigzaggeddeviated, strayed, wandered, wavered straightened to diminish the price or value ofdistressing economic news that will break many energy stocks attenuated, cheapened, depreciated, depressed, devaluated, devalued, downgraded, lowered, marked down, reduced, sank(or sunk), wrote down, wrote off debased, demonetizedunderestimated, underpriced, underrated, undervaluedabridged, compressed, contracted, de-escalated, deflated, downsized, dwindled, lessened, moderated, shrank(or shrunk) appreciated, enhanced, marked up, upgraded blew up, bloated, inflatedoverestimated, overpriced, overrated, overvaluedadded, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, ballooned, boosted, compounded, dilated, enlarged, escalated, expanded, extended, heightened, increased, maximized, multiplied, raised, swelled, upped to go beyond the limit ofa menu with prices that is likely to break the budgets of all but the wealthiest of diners exceeded, outran, outreached, overpassed, overran, overreached, overshot, overstepped, surpassed, transcended encroached, entrenched(also intrenched), infringed, invaded, trespassedoverdid, overused, overutilized, overworked to penetrate the surface (as of water) from belowdolphins were breaking all around the boat broached, surfaced emerged, rose dived(or dove), dropped, drowned, foundered, plunged, sank(or sunk), submerged, submersed in 1710 |