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Unbroken   /ənbrˈoʊkən/   Listen
Unbroken

adjective
1.
Marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence.  "The unbroken quiet of the afternoon"  Antonym: broken.
2.
Not subdued or trained for service or use.
3.
(of farmland) not plowed.  Synonyms: unploughed, unplowed.  "Unbroken land"  Antonym: plowed.
4.
(especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded.  Synonym: kept.  "Promises kept"  Antonym: broken.
5.
Not broken; whole and intact; in one piece.  Antonym: broken.





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"Unbroken" Quotes from Famous Books



... well of water, where these thorns and palm-trees stand, Once the Desert swept unbroken in a ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 27, January, 1860 • Various
... walk with her and keep unbroken The bond which nature gives, Thinking that our remembrance, though unspoken, May reach her where ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... one knew the probable purport of the will, and how simple a document it was likely to be; for the patriarchal old Squire hated the very mention of law, and it had been his pride that, though not entailed, the inheritance of Kingcombe Holm had descended for centuries unbroken by a single legal squabble. Therefore they all waited indifferently, merely to go through a necessary form; Harriet Dugdale and her husband, Eulalie and her fiance, and the solitary Mary. Major Harper alone was rather restless, especially when the three others came in from ...
— Agatha's Husband - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik (AKA: Dinah Maria Mulock)
... decorous silence of the anteroom was unbroken. Then the door of the inner office swung open and closed behind a dejected-looking young man, and the boy, without so much as asking for a card, preceded the secretly-elated Simpkins ...
— The False Gods • George Horace Lorimer
... even bring myself to consider it seriously. This project was to play a new system at Monte Carlo. It was a system founded on one which, devised by Henry Labouchere, had been—such was Beckett's contention—greatly improved by himself, and he and a companion had been playing it with absolutely unbroken success. The two, with only a small capital in their pockets, had won during the course of a week or so something like a thousand pounds—not in a few large gains (for in this there would have been nothing to wonder at), but by a regular succession ...
— Memoirs of Life and Literature • W. H. Mallock


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