Synonyms for broken-down
bro·ken-down

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1. broken-downadjective

   Synonyms:
   ramshackle, rundown, tumbledown, dilapidated, tatterdemalion, bedraggled, ruinous

2. broken-downadjective

   no longer in working order

   Synonyms:
   ramshackle, tumbledown, bedraggled, tatterdemalion, rundown, dilapidated, ruinous

3. broken-downadjective

   not properly maintained; neglected

   Synonyms:
   rundown, ramshackle, bedraggled, tatterdemalion, dilapidated, tumbledown, ruinous

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1. bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-downadjective

   in deplorable condition

   "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"

   Synonyms:
   tatterdemalion, abandoned, bedraggled, woebegone, tumble-down, remiss, run-down, delinquent, tattered, creaky, ramshackle, deserted, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, draggled, dilapidated, neglectful

   Antonyms:
   undamaged, serviceable

2. broken-downadjective

   not in working order

   "had to push the broken-down car"; "a broken-down tractor fit only for children to play on"

   Synonyms:
   bedraggled, tumble-down, dilapidated, derelict, ramshackle, tatterdemalion

   Antonyms:
   undamaged, serviceable

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1. XinR Alarm:

   Broken down, beaten in again Feel the pain, lose control Bent around, lie and sin All in vain, lost my soul Can I pick myself up again? Just to fall again, lost in sin.

2. Kristine Arthur:

   Many artificial sweeteners are large molecules, which can’t be broken down and digested well.

3. Raymond Chandler:

   Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

4. Capitol Hill:

   It is archaic sexism, i think it's more of this ingrained institutional piece of it that has to be broken down and the only way it can be broken down is by seeing women as your peers and over and over and over again and having those kinds of behaviors not be accepted.

5. David Anderson:

   Where it seems to have broken down is first of all in not ensuring that the passport was handed over.