Broken-down

Definition: Broken-down

Broken-down

Adjective

1. In deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack".

2. Not in working order; "had to push the broken-down car"; "a broken-down tractor fit only for children to play on".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "broken-down" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Broken-down

Crosswords: Broken-down

It isn't training over there, it's war. Where losers die and there aren't any winners, just guys who turn into broken-down wrecks like my father (Pearl Harbor; writing credit: Randall Wallace)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Old broken-down car and farm machinery in middle of farmer's field, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

A broken-down windmill on a ranch bought by Resettlement Administration as a part of the Central Oregon grazing project. The extreme depth of these wells made many of them impractical. Credit: Library of Congress.

Broken-down steps, entrance to abandoned house. Winton, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Chinese 

故障 (Breakdown, malfunction). (various references)

Hungarian

lerobbant (broken-down-looking, raggedy-ass, raunchy, sleazo, sleazy, to be out of kilter), kivénhedt (broken-down-looking, superannuated). (various references)

Pig Latin

oken-downbray.(various references)

Portuguese

esgotado (dead-beat, exhausted, out, out-of-print, played-out, sold out, used up, whacked), desmoronado (ramshackle), desanimado (cheerless, crestfallen, damp, depressed, despondent, dispirited, down, downcast, down-hearted, hagridden, heavy-laden, hopeless, languid, low, low-spirited, out of gas, out of heart, sorry), deprimido (blue, dejected, depressed, dumpish, dumpy, hagridden, hangdog, heavy-laden, hipped, low, low-spirited, melancholy, subdued), arruinado (impaired, kaput, ruinous, undone, wrecked). (various references)

Russian 

полуразрушенный (beat-up, dilapidated, tumble down, tumbledown). (various references)

Spanish

un viejo coche estropeado (broken-down old car). (various references)

Swedish

avsigkommen (broken down). (various references)

Vietnamese 

hỏng (addle, depraved, unsuccessful, vicious), ốm yếu (infirm, queerish, unhealthy, weakly). (various references)

Misspellings

"Broken-down" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brickendon, brokendown. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: bookend, brooked, browned, newborn, nonword, nonwork.

-4 letters: bonder, bonked, booked, booker, broken, browed, downer, knower, kronen, rebook, renown, rooked, wonder, wonned, wonner, wooden, worked.

-5 letters: boned, boner, bonne, booed, bored, borne, boron, bowed, bower, broke, brood, brook, brown, dobro, donne, donor, dower, drone, drown, endow, kendo, known, krone, kroon, odeon, orbed, owned, owner.