Broken vs Annul - What's the difference?
broken | annul |
Fragmented, in separate pieces.
# Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
# (label) Split or ruptured.
# Dashed, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
# (label) Interrupted; not continuous.
#* (rfdate), , White Fang :
# Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
Breeched; violated; not kept.
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
# Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
# Badly designed or implemented.
# Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being a non-native speaker.
# Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
(label) Uneven.
* 2005 , Will Cook, Until Darkness Disappears , page 54:
Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
To formally revoke the validity of.
To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.
As verbs the difference between broken and annul
is that broken is past participle of lang=en while annul is to formally revoke the validity of.As an adjective broken
is fragmented, in separate pieces.As a proper noun Broken
is torres Strait Creole.broken
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- My arm is broken !
- the ground was littered with broken bones
- A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken .
- Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.
- Tomorrow: broken skies.
- broken''' promises of neutrality'', '''''broken''' vows'', ''the '''broken covenant
- I think my doorbell broken .
- This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.
- Oh man! That is just broken !
- The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken .
- (en)
- All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.