Banjaxed

Part of speech: adjective

Pronunciation: /ˈbæn.dʒækst/

Definitions

1. Rendered completely inoperative or fundamentally unusable due to severe damage or impairment
2. Extensively broken or harmed to the point that use is no longer possible
3. So badly impaired or wrecked that the item or system cannot function anymore

Etymology: "Banjaxed" is built from "banjax" with the ordinary past-tense or participle ending "-ed", so its story depends on the verb underneath it. "Banjax" is an Irish English and Hiberno-English verb, a playful, slangy word meaning to smash, wreck or ruin something, and it is the source of the adjective's sense of being extensively damaged past use. The verb was built on the same broken-up, mock-heroic style of speech that gave English many other colourful words for wrecking things.

Synonyms: broken, damaged