Antonyms for busted
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : buhst |
| Phonetic Transcription : bÊŒst |
Definition of busted
Origin :- "broken, ruined," 1837, past participle adjective from bust (v.).
- verb ruin, impoverish
- verb arrest for illegal action
- verb physically break
- But she busted in on him there and just piled into him and snowed him under.
- Extract from : « Tom Sawyer, Detective » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- Then he busted out, and had another of them forty-rod laughs of hisn.
- Extract from : « Tom Sawyer, Detective » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- Some one shore up and busted him a plenty with a soft-nose thirty.
- Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter
- Busted more clotheslines than I've got fingers and toes, that pup has.
- Extract from : « The Woman-Haters » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- When I didn't hop him ag'in, the boys come over to see if I was busted.
- Extract from : « The Duke Of Chimney Butte » by G. W. Ogden
- When I struck town I got pretty drunk and busted a faro bank.
- Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
- "And we'd be a busted bank before you found him," groaned Knapp.
- Extract from : « The Million-Dollar Suitcase » by Alice MacGowan
- She was in the kitchen, busy as a gasoline-motor, when we busted through the door.
- Extract from : « They of the High Trails » by Hamlin Garland
- They busted the door to the smoke house and got all the hams.
- Extract from : « Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States » by Various
- Busted a button or two—but he'd broken his neck if he'd gone out.
- Extract from : « Old Rail Fence Corners » by Various
Synonyms for busted
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