some broken glass.
Sundered by divorce, seperation, or desertion of a parent or parents: as children from broken homes, or a broken marriage.
Having been violated: a broken promise.
Incomplete: a broken set of books.
Being in a state of array, disordered.
Intermittently stopping and starting, discontinuous: a broken cable transmission.
Varying abruptly, as in pitch: broken sobs.
Spoken with gaps and errors: broken English
Subdued totally, humbled: a broken spirit.
Weakened and infirm: broken health.
Not functioning, out of order: a broken washing machine.