broken limb

collocation in English

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broken
adjective
uk
/ˈbrəʊ.kən/us
/ˈbroʊ.kən/
damaged, no longer able ...
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limb
noun[C]
uk
/lɪm/us
/lɪm/
an arm or leg of a person ...
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(Definition ofbrokenandlimbfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Our whole trade structure will be dislocated or like abrokenlimb.
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I looked upon the mining industry under the existing system as being like abrokenlimb.
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After all, the treatment of abrokenlimband the subsequent rehabilitation to a restoration of functions are not seen as divided functions.
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Brokenlimbcases have already been mentioned as requiring linking, but there is also back strain.
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Another doctor explained that the recovery time for abrokenlimbis six months, and that it is six months for a heart attack too.
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Among the consequences of accidents sustained in such homes, one carer cited a broken hip and two others cited broken limbs.
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I am thinking of broken limbs.
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Further, there were 598 serious non-fatal accidents—paraplegics, broken limbs, people impaired for the remaining part of their days.
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Of those, several hundred were reportable accidents, which meant that they represented broken limbs, broken arms, and, indeed, legs being removed.
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We were concerned with broken limbs and broken spirits.
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But there are still the twenty-two men with broken limbs and bruised bodies, some of them in hospital.
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We have a duty to those 50,000 children to protect them from harm, broken limbs and even death.
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Many of them have paid a high price in broken health and broken limbs in making that contribution.
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It must remembered that such injuries are not like football injuries—broken limbs that should heal.
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For victims, those with broken limbs and wounded hearts, there will be no remission and no licence.
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The injuries ranged from concussion and cuts and bruises to burns and broken limbs.
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Different degrees of injury could be dealt with by gradations of award for appropriate injuries such as burns, scarring, broken limbs and shock.
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People with broken limbs, head wounds and other conditions waited four or five hours to see doctors.
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In that industry there is, unfortunately, a tremendous degree of disablement, not just the accidents which result in broken limbs, but industrial diseases like pneumoconiosis.
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