| 单词 | broken-backed |
| 释义 | broken-backed (once / 68717 pages) 1adj 2adj WORD FAMILY broken-backed USAGE EXAMPLESThese have ranged from absolutism, through Jacobinism, Napoleonic tyranny, Hitler, Soviet communism, to the well-meaning but broken-backed European Union today. Time(Jun 21, 2016) “Baiji is a symbol of this … and so the country stays like a broken-backed man.” Los Angeles Times(Jun 11, 2016) Unless New Delhi has a change of heart, the Bali deal is dead, leaving the WTO a broken-backed organisation. The Guardian(Aug 31, 2014) 1 1adj having the spine damaged a broken-backed book a broken-backed old horse Syn damaged harmed or injured or spoiled 2adj (of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth 2Syn unfit not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition adj (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end Syn hogged bulging, convex curving or bulging outward |
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