broken-down

Meanings

• the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue;
• "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"
• "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London"
• a mental or physical breakdown
• a cessation of normal operation;
• "there was a power breakdown"
• an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
• in deplorable condition;
• "a street of bedraggled tenements"
• "a broken-down fence"
• "a ramshackle old pier"
• "a tumble-down shack"
• not in working order;
• "had to push the broken-down car"
• "a broken-down tractor fit only for children to play on"

Synonyms

• dislocation
• breakdown
• crack-up
• equipment failure
• partitioning
• bedraggled
• broken-down
• derelict
• dilapidated
• ramshackle
• tatterdemalion
• tumble-down

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