## Meanings
1. To break something, or to break open suddenly and forcefully.
2. A woman's chest, or the measurement around it.
3. A sculpture of a person's head, shoulders, and upper chest.
4. A complete failure.

## Examples
- He busted the lock trying to open the door.
- The dress was a little tight around the bust.
- A marble bust of the poet stood in the library.
- The party was a total bust because no one came.

## Derived Forms
- ball-bust
- beer-bust
- belly-busting
- boom-and-bust
- bunker-busting
- bust-down
- bust-out
- bustable
- buster
- busthead
- bustlike
- bustline

## Related Forms
- bustier

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *h₁ews-
- Root: busto
- Root: bustum
- Root: ambustum

## Etymology
Borrowed from French buste, from Italian busto (“torso, upper body”), from Latin bustum (“funeral monument, tomb," originally "funeral pyre, place where corpses are burned”). Perhaps shortened from Latin ambustum, neuter of ambustus (“scorched”), past participle of ambūrō (“burn all over, scorch”), from ambi- (“around”) + ūrō (“to burn”).

## AI Etymology
Bust was borrowed from French buste, from Italian busto (“torso, upper body”), from Latin bustum (“funeral monument, tomb," originally "funeral pyre, place where corpses are burned”). Perhaps shortened from Latin ambustum, neuter of ambustus (“scorched”), past participle of ambūrō (“burn all over, scorch”), from ambi- (“around”) + ūrō (“to burn”).

## Topics
- Space, Position & Direction

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