broken marriage

collocation in English

meaningsofbrokenandmarriage

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broken
adjective
uk
/ˈbrəʊ.kən/us
/ˈbroʊ.kən/
damaged, no longer able ...
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marriage
noun
uk
/ˈmær.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈmer.ɪdʒ/
a legally accepted relationship between two people in which they live together, or the official ceremony that results ...
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(Definition ofbrokenandmarriagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Remarriage offers a future for parties suffering from abrokenmarriage.
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It is a case ofbrokenmarriage.
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The regime made efforts to punish men who passed from onebrokenmarriageto another, or fathers who did not maintain their children.
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A further justification, when interest centres on the volume of marriage breakdown, is that a failed petition nevertheless indicates abrokenmarriage.
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Unfortunately the relations, particularly in some areas, are achieving the status of abrokenmarriage.
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As the wife points out, that inevitably means abrokenmarriage.
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We have had only onebrokenmarriagein our family of 11 marriages.
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That failure or fault is at the heart of what is meant by abrokenmarriage.
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Anybody who pretends otherwise has not seen the ugly side of abrokenmarriage.
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Divorce makes life hard enough for the children of abrokenmarriagewithout adding to it.
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I am not one of those who are seeking relief from abrokenmarriage.
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Abrokenmarriageis a financial disadvantage to anybody at whatever level of income.
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Usually, one parent of abrokenmarriagecannot accept that the other has been given custody.
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The one person who needs to be defended in abrokenmarriageis the child.
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The remainder of those who would consider having no children were prepared to do so only if faced by an extreme calamity such as haemophilia or abrokenmarriage.
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The courts have set their face against acting to the prejudice of the children of abrokenmarriage.
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A decree does not cause abrokenmarriage, any more than a death certificate is the cause of death.
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Everybrokenmarriageis tragic, because either a great happiness has been destroyed or it has never been created.
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After all, one may find oneself with abrokenmarriagemuch sooner than one finds oneself as a widow.
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That adds to the problem of abrokenmarriageand low income the problem of the loss of a home.
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The most revolutionary proposal was that we should abandon the existing law altogether and rely entirely on the concept of thebrokenmarriage.
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The unhappiness of abrokenmarriage, which leads to divorce, is felt by the spouses, by their children and by all their family and friends.
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The disease is thebrokenmarriageitself, for which usually both the husband and the wife are in some degree to blame.
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The first is how we deal with abrokenmarriage; the second is how we deal with the consequences of it.
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In the early stages of abrokenmarriage, usually the wife will go to the magistrates' court to obtain an order.
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