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BROKE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking funds
Example:
'skint' is a British slang term
Synonyms:
broke; bust; skint; stone-broke; stony-broke
Classified under:
Similar:
poor (having little money or few possessions)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple of the verb break
Context examples:
“Huzza, mates, all together!” shouted Merry; and the foremost broke into a run.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And then he condemned the fear as a disloyalty, and broke the seal.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It nearly broke my heart to have missed it.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I slept well, and as I conjectured at least six hours, for I found the day broke in two hours after I awaked.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
About two hours after this occurrence we heard the ground sea, and before night the ice broke and freed our ship.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
As they drew closer and orbited faster, the stars eventually broke apart and merged, producing both a gamma-ray burst and a rarely seen flare-up called a "kilonova."
(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)
The collapse broke off almost all of the floating portions of the glaciers, leaving the parts that are grounded on bedrock.
(Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)
He has thrown my husband down the steps so that he broke his leg.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
At the instant his voice broke the silence, White Fang leaped back, snarling savagely at him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
