unbroken
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3.9
- adjective
- /ʌnˈbroʊkən/
- However, to do this effectively requires a lifetime of specialized study and long periods of unbroken service.
- an unbroken chain
- an unbroken run
- an unbroken line
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Watch on YouTubeAnd a maker wants unbroken swaths of time for problem solving.
- And a maker wants unbroken swaths of time for problem solving.
- But if we needed to, we could have shot the entire thing and, and one unbroken cut.
- That would mean that there's no accrued wisdom from the unbroken chain of survivors that make up the fact that you're here right now.
- Five May the circle be unbroken by and by, Lord by and graves prepared, entered, complete.
- And this book distills, yes, teachings of the Bible, of the Torah, of Jewish thought of literally an unbroken chain of thousands of years.
- It's one vast unbroken continent at present.
- And also there's very few people who have lasted for so long unbroken at doing it.
- And, you know, there is a, you know, an unbroken kind of chain of essential experience that we consider to be part and parcel of who we are.
- So we are all the descendants of this long and unbroken chain of ancestors who all of whom succeeded in selecting infertile mate.
- You can be oblivious to the sound for long while, then in a second of taking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time.
Examples
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this vast belt of trees forms an almost unbroken circle around the north of the globe
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The workers, trembling but silent, cower inside the unbroken circle of soldiers.
Fiction book (1998) -
As long as this line remains unbroken, she cannot enter.
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What are you doing? - Looking for an unbroken line.
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But if I can find an unbroken line, I might be able to send a telegraph.
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It's one vast unbroken continent at present.
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The annual war games have been an unbroken tradition here at Kent for over 50 years.
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The city has embraced an unbroken chain of civilizations dating back more than 4,000 years.
Academic text (2004) -
Even now, they linger like grains of sand... the memories of an unbroken line of battles.
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The annual war games have been an unbroken tradition here at Kent for over 50 years.
Synonyms
525
2.5
Happens all the time without stopping
229
1.3
Happening without stopping for a period of time
157
3.7
Without a break or gap, for example in a curve
109
3.9
Lasting a long time without stopping or getting weaker
71
4.2
Continuing for a long time without fading
34
1.3
Continuing without any stops or pauses
29
4.2
Continuing without stopping or being disturbed
29
6.3
Happening all the time without stopping
10
4.9
Not stopping or pausing for a long time
5
6.0
Continuing without stopping
1
5.1
Continuing without stopping
1
9.6
Happening without stopping
1
4.6
Continuing without any break
Antonyms
How Continuous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unbroken is made of un- meaning 'not' and broken from 'break', where 'break' can mean a stop, so an unbroken silence, line, or series has no stops and continues without interruption.