broken-down

See also: broken down

English

Adjective

broken-down (comparative more broken-down, superlative most broken-down)

1. Which has broken down and, as a result, is no longer in working order.
   • 2021 December 29, Stefanie Foster, “Storm Barra causes fresh disruption to the railway”, in RAIL, number 947, page 19:

     And a broken-down train and the severe weather temporarily shut the line between Dawlish and Exeter St Davids.

2. Not properly maintained; neglected.
3. Ruined in character or strength.
   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     We looked our last upon them and the indescribable rosy glow in which they lay, and then with hearts far too heavy for words we left them, and crept thence broken-down men - so broken down that we even renounced the chance of practically immortal life, because all that made life valuable had gone from us, and we knew even then that to prolong our days indefinitely would only be to prolong our sufferings.

Synonyms

• (no longer in working order): See Thesaurus:out of order
• (not maintained; neglected): See Thesaurus:ramshackle

Translations

no longer in working order

• Arabic: مُعَطَّل m (muʕaṭṭal)

  Gulf Arabic: خربان m (ḵarbān)

  Hijazi Arabic: خربان m (ḵarbān)

• Bulgarian: повреден (bg) (povreden)
• Finnish: rikkinäinen (fi), epäkuntoinen, toimimaton (fi)
• French: en panne (fr) m or f, hors-service (fr) m or f, H.S. m or f
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• German: kaputt (de)
• Polish: uszkodzony (pl) m

not properly maintained

• Finnish: ränsistynyt, rapistunut, rappeutunut
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ruined in character or strength

• Finnish: rappiolla (fi) (adv.)
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