Saturday, 10 August 2013

Can "broken" mean never working to begin with?

Can "broken" mean never working to begin with?

Technically speaking can broken be correctly applied to a thing that is
not and never was functional? I think there is a connotation that a thing
once was functional, but is that required for proper usage?
American Heritage Dictionary has simply:
Not functioning; out of order
But dictionary.cambridge.org has:
damaged, no longer able to work

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