The difference between Broken and Dashed
When used as adjectives, broken means fractured, whereas dashed means made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
check bellow for the other definitions of Broken and Dashed
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Broken as a verb:
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Broken as an adjective (of a, bone or body part):
Fragmented, in separate pieces. Fractured; having the bone in pieces. Split or ruptured. Dashed, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next. Interrupted; not continuous. Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
Examples:
"My arm is broken!"
"the ground was littered with broken bones"
"One recent morning the team had to replace a broken weather research station. [[File:One recent morning the team had to replace a broken weather research station.ogg]]"
"A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken."
"Tomorrow: broken skies."
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Broken as an adjective (of a, promise, etc):
Breached; violated; not kept.
Examples:
"'broken promises of neutrality"
"'broken vows"
"the broken covenant"
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Broken as an adjective (of an, electronic connection):
Non-functional; not functioning properly. Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic. Badly designed or implemented. Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being a non-native speaker. Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
Examples:
"I think my doorbell is broken."
"This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time."
"Oh man! That is just broken!"
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Broken as an adjective (of a, person):
Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
Examples:
"The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken."
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Broken as an adjective:
Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
Examples:
"rfquote-sense en"
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Broken as an adjective (of land):
Uneven.
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Broken as an adjective (sports, and, gaming, of a tactic or option):
Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
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Dashed as a verb:
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Dashed as an adjective (of a line):
Made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
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Dashed as an adjective (British, dated, informal, euphemism):
Damned.
Examples:
"It's a dashed shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels — we were hoping to get him into Oxford."