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- verb informal Past participle of
break down
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Examples
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-- it was then that, in the traditional phrase, she "brokedown," and her conventional protest quivered off into tears.
The Letters 1910
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-- it was then that, in the traditional phrase, she "brokedown," and her conventional protest quivered off into tears.
Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton 1899
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- Kelis looks like a brokedown Grace Jones on the cover of her forthcoming album Flesh Tone.
Five More Women Come Forward In Steven Seagal Sex Scandal 2010
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U.S. officials in Copenhagen and at the White House confirmed talks brokedown Wednesday after the Chinese delegation rejected U.S. demands that China, along with other nations, be required to provide "transparency" - proving a commitment to cutting emissions.
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As the greater the level of instability becomes visible, the more Putin's stakeholders are going to have to review the incentives of building these independent institutions vs. the benefits of maintaining a brokedown fiefdom of unitary power.
Robert Amsterdam: Magnitsky and Russia's Opportunity Cost Robert Amsterdam 2010
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As the greater the level of instability becomes visible, the more Putin's stakeholders are going to have to review the incentives of building these independent institutions vs. the benefits of maintaining a brokedown fiefdom of unitary power.
Robert Amsterdam: Magnitsky and Russia's Opportunity Cost Robert Amsterdam 2010
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Matter-of-fact, any Memphian worth her weight in gold even has an Elvis story to share: for example, Elvis drove a truck and once gave my friend a ride home to Como, Mississippi after he brokedown on the interstate.
Death Week 2007 ____Maggie 2007
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The old guy who runs it told me they'd been around 60 years, and commenced a tale of how he used to get in his brokedown truck back in '49 and drive up Highway 1, there being no I-95 in those days, and stop at all the mills to get yarn.
Tweets for Today yuki_onna 2009
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Matter-of-fact, any Memphian worth her weight in gold even has an Elvis story to share: for example, Elvis drove a truck and once gave my friend a ride home to Como, Mississippi after he brokedown on the interstate.
Archive 2007-08-01 ____Maggie 2007
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The whole point with Heidegger is that thinking brokedown
The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies 2009
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