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Broken-down

adjective

In deplorable condition. Synonyms: bedraggled, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down. "A broken-down fence" , "A ramshackle old pier" , "A tumble-down shack"

Not in working order. "A broken-down tractor fit only for children to play on"

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"Broken-down" Quotes from Famous Books

... major as he blew a ring of smoke between himself and the shrewd eyes, "what on earth have a lot of broken-down old Confederate soldiers got to do with the management of the affairs of the city? You young men are to attend to that—give us a seat in the sun and ...

— Andrew the Glad • Maria Thompson Daviess

... occurs to the mind of the sensitive visitor, whose conscience has been made tender by much talk of brotherhood and equality, that she has no right to say these things; that her untrained hands are no more fitted to cope with actual conditions than those of her broken-down family. ...

— Democracy and Social Ethics • Jane Addams

... little sideboard and cupboard contained a slender stock of knives, forks, and glasses, and part of a broken-down dinner set, while the fireplace easily held ...

— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne

... and, here and there, an attempt at representing an overhanging rock with a hole through it; but merely in order to divide the light behind some human figure. Lakes! No, nothing of the kind,—only blue bays of sea put in to fill up the background when the painter could not think of anything else. Broken-down buildings! No; for the most part very complete and well-appointed buildings, if any; and never buildings at all, but to give place or explanation to some circumstance of human conduct." And then he would ...

— Selections From the Works of John Ruskin • John Ruskin

... was sufficiently odd picking up an American girl in the street with her luggage, to say nothing of the broken-down car; the circumstances were unusual enough to impress themselves on a man's memory for a couple of days at any rate. I have even looked up two chauffeurs who were home ill, ...

— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell

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