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[ adjective ] broken into small fragments

Synonyms

crumbled

Examples

"crumbled cookies"

Used in print

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

A somewhat less fragmented hebephrenic patient of mine , who used_to often seclude herself in her room , often sounded through the closed door - as I would find on passing_by , between our sessions - for_all_the_world like two persons , a scolding mother and a defensive child .

Related terms

broken

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[ adjective ] having been divided; having the unity destroyed

Examples

"Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell "a league of disunited nations"- E.B.White "a fragmented coalition" "a split group"

Related terms

divided

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