Broken and Held up

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Broken adjective - Forcibly separated into many pieces.

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

Nearby Words: broke, brokenly

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Broken and held up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Broken" instead an adjective phrase "Held up".

Beyond, the park stretched away in illimitable vistas, broken with the graceful columned buildings that held up the great glass roof.

Source: Literature / The Cosmic Express
Broken Pedestal: Kais' father is held up in Tau media as being a great hero of the Tau Empire, and stalwart champion of the Greater Good.

Source: Video Game / Fire Warrior
Broken Pedestal: The Final Five, depicted in visions as glowing angelic beings in long flowing robes and held up as gods by the other six Cylons, turn out to be the five most screwed up, petty, petulant, disorderly, malcontent, self-centered and, ironically, human characters in the whole series.

Source: Series / Battlestar Galactica (2003)

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