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What does broken-down mean?

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The Caine is finally decommissioned in the fall of 1945, after steaming its broken-down way home from Okinawa.
The yards are full of derelict cars, broken-down furniture, sofas with the stuffing bursting out.
We drove north, broken-down trucks littering the road as we travelled up to the summit of the pass through the mountain.
He told his driver to stop outside a broken-down shack, where an emaciated woman and two young men sat on a porch surrounded by household debris.
It's melting already, but the traffic's at a crawl and there's a broken-down bus around the corner.
Here, instead of verbalizing her emotions, Winslet oozes dread via her broken-down visage, and slight mannerisms.

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