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broken in

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Adj.1.broken in - tamed or trained to obey; "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in"
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tamed, tame - brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"
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The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; and one splintered half had rolled in the neighbouring gutter--the other, without doubt, had been carried away by the murderer.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
Here he noticed a little mouse creeping wearily along on its hind paws, for its front paws had both been broken in a trap.
The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context
Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature.
Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary View in context
 
 
 
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