fragmented

1. 1
   adjective

   Broken into many small pieces that no longer hold together.

   Like a cookie that has crumbled into many little bits.

   The dropped plate left fragmented pieces all over the floor.

   After the crash, the windshield was fragmented into tiny bits.

   Similarbroken, shattered, fractured, disintegrated

   Oppositeintact, whole, unbroken, complete

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2. 2
   adjective

   Made up of many separate pieces instead of one whole thing.

   Like a collage made from many cut-out pieces of paper.

   The mosaic looked fragmented, made from hundreds of tiny tiles.

   Her notes were fragmented, just bits of ideas with no flow.

   Similardisjointed, disconnected, piecemeal, patchy, episodic

   Oppositecoherent, unified, continuous, seamless

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3. 3
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of fragment. Use it for breaking into pieces that already happened.

   The committee fragmented after the vote split its members.

   The old empire fragmented into many small states.

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