Synonyms for busted


Grammar : Verb
Spell : buhst
Phonetic Transcription : bÊŒst

Top 10 synonyms for busted Other synonyms for the word busted

Définition of busted

Origin :
  • "broken, ruined," 1837, past participle adjective from bust (v.).
  • verb ruin, impoverish
  • verb arrest for illegal action
  • verb physically break
Example sentences :
  • 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

Antonyms for busted

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