adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a broken-down trailer
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ali turned immediately to his right and climbed over a broken-down wall.
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Benji can look like a broken-down old cab horse with a real novice on his back or he can look really smart.
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His reward for helping to fix the broken-down Time Machine is to travel to a time of his choice.
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Sitting on a broken-down couch in the cluttered Casa Maria headquarters, Flagg chuckles at that particular take.
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With his broken-down truck and borrowed electricity, Carvel was the prototypical sole proprietor.
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With these memories, I expected Galway City, my destination, to be a hopeless, broken-down kind of place.