Broken and Failed

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Broken adjective - Forcibly separated into many pieces.

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Failed and broken are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Failed" instead an adjective "Broken".

Nearby Words: broke, brokenly

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Broken and failed are semantically related. You can use "Broken" instead an adjective "Failed".

Nearby Words: fail, failure, failing

All of that masks a bitter and broken man who wanted to change the world and failed.

Source: Broken Ace
After a Senator gets his neck broken by an assassin, a soldier comments that the one time he tried to do that in the field, he failed miserably and had to cut the man's throat instead.

Source: Neck Snap
All of his efforts to retrieve her failed, and he eventually dies a broken man, his only comfort his adopted son Shirou.

Source: Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You

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