Emily Dickinson Lexicon

broke (broken), verbal adj. [see break, v.] (webplay: company, crack, discard, heart, new, passion, pierce, utter).

1. Incorrect; corrupted; inaccurate; mistaken; erroneous; dysfunctional.
2. Subdued; mentally or physically crushed; [fig.] unclean; subject to sin.
3. Shattered; ruined; destroyed; disintegrated; in pieces; [fig.] dead; decaying; dismembered; subject to decomposition.
4. Discontinued; separated; terminated; divorced; split up; parted by schism; out of association; ending relations.
5. Sorrowful; contrite; suffering; remorseful.
6. Phrase. “Broken hearted”: exquisitely sensitive; willing to endure pain for others (see Psalm 34:18).