A broken reed

Definition

broken 1 pp of BREAK broken 2 /'brǝƱkǝn/ adj ၁။ က်ဳိးေနေသာ။ ကြဲေနေသာ။ (စက္) ပ်က္ေနေသာ။ a broken cup/glass/window ❍ a broken leg/arm ❍ a broken radio/camera. ❍ CHIP 1 ၂။ တစ္ဆက္ တည္း မဟုတ္၊ ျပတ္ေတာင္းျပတ္ေတာင္း ျဖစ္ေသာ။ broken sleep ❍ broken sunshine. ၃။ ပ်က္ျပားသြားေသာ။ a broken promise ❍ a broken marriage အိမ္ေထာင္ပ်က္။ ၄။ ခ်ည့္နဲ႔ သြားေသာ။ ခ်ံဳးက်သြားေသာ။ He was a broken man after the failure of his business. ၅။ မေတာက္တေခါက္ေလာက္ သာ ေျပာတတ္ေသာ။ speak in broken English. ၆။ ခေယာင္း (ေတာ)။ an area of broken, rocky ground. ❏ broken- down adj အိုနာက်ဳိးကန္း။ a broken-down old car/man/horse. ❏ broken-hearted adj ပူေဆြးေသာက ေရာက္ေနေသာ။ အသည္းကြဲေသာ။ He was broken-hearted when his wife died. Compare HEARTBROKEN ❏ broken home n မိဘႏွစ္ပါးကြဲသြားေသာ အိမ္ေထာင္။ အိမ္ေထာင္ပ်က္။ He comes from a broken home. ❏ a broken reed [ IDM ] [ဥ] ေမ်ာက္ခ်ဳိးဝါး။

Examples

1. He had several broken ribs and a suspected broken leg.
2. Nearly all the houses had broken windows.
3. Be careful not to step on the broken glass.
4. Fill the bottom of the dish with broken biscuits.
5. A broken fingernail
6. You can’t use the microwave – it’s broken.
7. He’s mended that broken clock.
8. Her husband died
9. and she died soon afterwards of a broken heart.
10. He referred to his country as the land of broken dreams.
11. A string of broken promises
12. [broken marriages] : I’d had two broken marriages by the time I was 30.
13. A broken engagement
14. A broken line