Broken and Shaggy

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Broken adjective - Forcibly separated into many pieces.

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

Nearby Words: broke, brokenly

Shaggy adjective - Covered with or as if with hair.

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Broken and shaggy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Broken" instead an adjective "Shaggy".

Nearby Word: shag

All that happens after finding the pearl is that they get their boat broken, their house burned, and their baby, ie the proverbial shaggy dog, shot.

Source: Shoot The Shaggy Dog / Literature
Subverted in Nineteen Eighty-Four, where the protagonists think their struggle will end like this, but they are both broken and changed by the Party instead, making it a case of Shoot the Shaggy Dog.

Source: Doomed Moral Victor
Also the scene right after the gang has broken up with Scooby and Shaggy hanging out at a beach, in their van, laughing, whilst smoke comes out of the van's roof.

Source: Film / Scooby-Doo

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