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Grammar : Adj
Spell : boo sht
Phonetic Transcription : bʊʃt



Definition of bushed

Origin :
  • "tired," 1870, American English, perhaps from earlier sense of "lost in the woods" (1856), from bush (n.).
  • adj exhausted
Example sentences :
  • Shane said, "Remember the time I 'bushed' you over in Dunlap's meadow?"
  • Extract from : « A Daughter of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland
  • I'm not coming back till I find my little 'un that's bushed in this mallee.'
  • Extract from : « Some Persons Unknown » by E. W. Hornung
  • All peas, for picking while green, are more convenient when bushed.
  • Extract from : « Soil Culture » by J. H. Walden
  • I agreed, but told him that I couldn't find the way and should get 'bushed' if I tried.
  • Extract from : « Spiritualism and the New Psychology » by Millais Culpin
  • See that the cloth, with which the hole is bushed, is not loose and wrinkled.
  • Extract from : « Piano Tuning » by J. Cree Fischer
  • The big ends are lined with white metal and the small ends are bushed with phosphor bronze.
  • Extract from : « Aviation Engines » by Victor Wilfred Pag
  • Once, when I had gone out parrot-potting, with another young fellow almost as green as myself, we had very nearly got bushed.
  • Extract from : « A Boy's Voyage Round the World » by The Son of Samuel Smiles
  • All other peas had better be bushed, that they may be easily picked, and that the later ones may mature.
  • Extract from : « Soil Culture » by J. H. Walden
  • Nevertheless, we fell into the disgrace (to an Australian Jehu) of being "bushed" that night.
  • Extract from : « Thirty Years in Australia » by Ada Cambridge
  • Where by accident the perforation has become enlarged at the end, it has been bushed by setting in a small piece of shell.
  • Extract from : « Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans » by William H. Holmes

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