Synonyms for broke
broʊkbroke

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1. brokeadjective

   Synonyms:
   skint, stony-broke, boracic

2. brokeadjective

   Lacking money; bankrupt

   Synonyms:
   stony-broke, skint, boracic

3. brokeadjective

   Broken.

   Synonyms:
   stony-broke, boracic, skint

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1. broke, bust, skint, stone-broke, stony-brokeadjective

   lacking funds

   "`skint' is a British slang term"

   Synonyms:
   skint, stony-broke, bust, stone-broke

   Antonyms:
   rich

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1. List of paraphrases for "broke":

   broken, -broke, shattered, snapped, bailed, farted, smashed, busted, cracked, ruined, violated, disobeyed, beat, kicked

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1. Fin Costello -RRB- Davis:

   The entire band broke up, lindsey and Stevie [also] broke up… They spent a year working in the studio barely speaking to each other, but it resulted in an incredible album.

2. Susanne Andrews:

   I felt led to do something to help memorialize Stephen, this started out with just a posting of a picture of a gravesite and I have a 16-year-old, almost 17, and as a mom it just broke my heart.

3. Carole Scofield:

   Carole Scofield told the news station Carole Scofield thinks this is the second time this same bear has broken into their home looking for food. The first time it broke down their front door. In total, the couple said they have had trouble with bears on six different occasions during the 20 years they’ve lived in South Lake Tahoe. Lesa Johnston, with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, told KOLO8 that bears normally rummage through trash cans in search of food, but they're also known to look elsewhere. At some point in the bears' life, they gain some type of food reward by breaking in a cabin or a home, so they remember that, so the behavior is likely to be repeated, Lesa Johnston said. We are very lucky, both major break-ins, we were very lucky. I know a lot of people have not been. It has been very, very costly.

4. Alan Stewart Paton:

   What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another

5. Paul Auster:

   First of all there is Blue. Later there is White, and then there is Black, and before the beginning there is Brown. Brown broke him in, Brown taught him the ropes, and when Brown grew old, Blue took over. That is how it begins. The place is New York, the time is the present, and neither one will ever change.