{
    "term": "broken",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "image": "data/images/br/broken_chipped_cracked.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "that has been damaged or injured; no longer whole or working correctly",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a broken window/plate"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **broken leg/arm/bone**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "pieces of **broken glass**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "How did this dish **get broken**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The TV's broken."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They opened the bag and found a **broken bottle**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The UN system is broken beyond repair."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His front tooth was broken in half."
                },
                {
                    "text": "One of her patients was a cat with a badly broken leg."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Health problems"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "get"],
                "adverb": ["badly"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "not kept",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Voters are disillusioned with the government's broken promises."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "ended or destroyed",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **broken marriage/engagement**"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "not continuous; interrupted or disturbed",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a night of broken sleep"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a single broken white line across the road"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "made weak and tired by illness or difficulties",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was a broken man after the failure of his business."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "spoken slowly and with a lot of mistakes; not fluent",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to speak in broken English"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "having a rough surface",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an area of broken, rocky ground"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "in a way that keeps repeating a statement or opinion in an annoying way",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I hate sounding like a broken record, but I have to say again, we must do more to help."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbrəʊkən/",
                "audio": "br/broken/broken__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbrəʊkən/",
                "audio": "br/broken/broken__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}