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2 | 37% | 6 | One whose speech is halting | |
3 | 37% | 8 | Ones with halting speech? | |
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We think the answer is "BROKEN" which means:
- adjective
- • Physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
- • Not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
- • (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded adjective satellite
- • Subdued or brought low in condition or status
- • Tamed or trained to obey
- • Topographically very uneven
- • Imperfectly spoken or written
- • Thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- • Weakened and infirm
- • Destroyed financially
- • Out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken')
- • Discontinuous
- • Lacking a part or parts verb
- • To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- • To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- • To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- • To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- • To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- • To ruin financially.
- • To violate, to not adhere to.
- • (of a fever) to pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, in terms of temperature.
- • (of a spell of settled weather) to end.
- • (of a storm) to begin; to end.
- • (of morning, dawn, day etc.) to arrive.
- • To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- • To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- • To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- • To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- • (of a wave of water) to collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- • To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- • To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
- • To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- • To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
- • (of a sound) to become audible suddenly.
- • To change a steady state abruptly.
- • To suddenly become.
- • Of a male voice, to become deeper at puberty.
- • Of a voice, to alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down; to crack.
- • To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- • :
- • (most often in the passive tense) to demote, to reduce the military rank of.
- • To end (a connection), to disconnect.
- • (of an emulsion) to demulsify.
- • To counter-attack
- • To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
- • To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- • To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
- • To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- • To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- • To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
- • To fall out; to terminate friendship.
- • To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- • To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
An example sentence would be:
- • "The broken window needs to be replaced."
- • "He walked with a broken leg."
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