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claim

from a wrong or injury suffered [a plaintiff who has been injured in an accident has…one for a broken arm, another for a ruptured spleen, and so forth "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] ;also : the formal

battered child syndrome

battered child syndrome : the combination of grave physical injuries (as broken bones and bruises) that results from gross child abuse NOTE: Evidence of battered child syndrome is often used

Cracked

Coarsely ground or broken as cracked wheat

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Cragged

Full of crags or steep broken rocks abounding with prominences points and inequalities rough rugged

Heaves

disease of horses characterized by difficult breathing with heaving of the flank wheezing flatulency and a peculiar cough broken wind

Fracted

Having a part displaced as if broken said of an ordinary

Hammer break

An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an electromagnet or of a

Gurgle

To run or flow in a broken irregular noisy current as water from a bottle or a small stream among pebbles or stones

Guilt

punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law or from morally wrong action the state of one who has broken a moral or political law crime criminality offense against right

Groats

Dried grain as oats or wheat hulled and broken or crushed in high milling cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits

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