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UK
/fɹæɡmˈɛntɪd/
]
[ US /ˈfɹæɡmənɪd, ˈfɹæɡməntɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈfɹæɡmənɪd, ˈfɹæɡməntɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having been divided; having the unity destroyed
Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces
a split group
a fragmented coalition
a league of disunited nations
How To Use fragmented In A Sentence
- The intimacy of the mobile phone creates a similarly fragmented network of communication and desire.
- But in the longer term fragmented, divided, accountable-to-no-one-but-the-president, un-transparent, corrupt and internally feuding armed forces could all too easily be sent off to fight to satisfy internal power struggles. Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net
- Fierce rivalries have traditionally fragmented the region.
- Thus the Republic emerged from its early traumas with a fragmented political culture and no national consensus.
- What we need is to adopt whole river catchment plans from mountaintop to estuary, instead of the fragmented approach we have at present.
- His pictures are quick, fragmented, impressionistic, but coloristically very lovely. The Online Photographer
- Now, less than one percent remains as fragmented remnants scattered across 75,000 hectares.
- Finally, the state is fragmented, both in terms of political authority and the organizational form and logic of its component parts.
- In March 1991, urethroscopy showed the distal end of the distal stent had fragmented; loose wires were removed. BioMed Central - Latest articles
- In mountainous stages the peloton is likely to become fragmented, but in flat stages a split is rare.