broken vs destroyed

broken

adj
  • Split or ruptured. 

  • Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful. 

  • Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next. 

  • Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic. 

  • Fractured; having the bone in pieces. 

  • Badly designed or implemented. 

  • Fragmented; in separate pieces. 

  • Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds. 

  • Interrupted; not continuous. 

  • Having no money; bankrupt, broke. 

  • Not having gone in the way intended; saddening. 

  • Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous. 

  • Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker. 

  • Breached; violated; not kept. 

  • Non-functional; not functioning properly. 

  • Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed. 

  • Uneven. 

destroyed

adj
  • (particularly of a child) soiled, muddied, especially as a result of a fall or spill. 

How often have the words broken and destroyed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )