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broken home

[broh-kuhn hohm]

noun

  1. a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion.

    children from broken homes.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of broken home1

First recorded in 1840–50
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Most of us come from council estates and broken homes – boxing is a way out.

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Wiggins - a gangly north Londoner, from a broken home, brought up in poverty - made it to the very top of a sport that requires clinical preparation and a calm head under pressure.

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I came from a broken home, and I was just like, “This isn’t my path — I’m not gonna repeat this thing.”

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I didn’t come from a broken home, and I had the best of everything, but, yet, I didn’t have what I would have liked to have had, which is full communication.

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Israeli soldiers, and some civilians from Israel and abroad, come to see the broken homes, and hear accounts of the devastation, in order to understand what happened.

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