1.
Broken is the past participle of break .
2.
A ~ line is not continuous but has gaps or spaces in it.
A ~ blue line means the course of a waterless valley.
= dotted
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
You can use ~ to describe a marriage that has ended in divorce, or a home in which the parents of the family are divorced, when you think this is a sad or bad thing.
She spoke for the first time about the traumas of a ~ marriage...
Children from ~ homes are more likely to leave home before the age of 18.
ADJ: ADJ n disapproval
4.
If someone talks in ~ English, for example, or in ~ French, they speak slowly and make a lot of mistakes because they do not know the language very well.
Eric could only respond in ~ English.
? fluent, perfect
ADJ: ADJ n