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. Lucy Jones:

   Keep these things from breaking down, because once they're broken down the economy comes apart in the time it takes to get them fixed.

2. Eddie Ray Routh:

   He was living on the edge with all this stuff -- beat down, broken-down car, messed up on drugs.

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. 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.

5. Maya Adam:

   Whole food carbohydrates take longer to break down into simple sugars, and a part of them — the fiber — ca n’t be broken down at all, this means that whole, intact grains do n’t cause the same spikes in blood sugar that we experience when we eat simple sugars. Blood sugar spikes trigger insulin spikes, which can destabilize our blood glucose and … be the underlying cause of health problems in the long run.