BROKEN IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broken in mean? 

• BROKEN IN (adjective)
  The adjective BROKEN IN has 1 sense:

1. tamed or trained to obey

  Familiarity information: BROKEN IN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROKEN IN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tamed or trained to obey

Synonyms:

broken; broken in

Context example:

this old nag is well broken in

Similar:

tame; tamed (brought from wildness into a domesticated state)

 Context examples 

Kitty is slight and delicate; and Mary studies so much, that her hours of repose should not be broken in on.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Also, he was learning to drive dogs and to train dogs; while the puppies themselves were being broken in to the harness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But the Outside dogs, though practically broken in since their landing, did not amount to much.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He sat for some little time in silence, absorbed in the strange drama which had broken in upon our peace.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It had been ready upon his tongue to tell him all when Sir Oliver had broken in upon them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An injury sustained during the birthing process in which the continuity is broken in the skull.

(Fracture of Skull due to Birth Trauma, NCI Thesaurus)

An injury sustained during the birthing process in which the continuity is broken in the clavicle.

(Fracture of the Clavicle due to Birth Trauma, NCI Thesaurus)

In this were the shaft of a pick broken in two and the boards of several packing-cases strewn around.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

An injury sustained during the birthing process in which the continuity is broken in any bone that is longer in length than width.

(Fracture of Long Bone due to Birth Trauma, NCI Thesaurus)