US /ˈbʌstɪd/ UK /ˈbʌstɪd/
adj

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    broken, ruined, or caught in wrongdoing

    The old radio was busted beyond any repair.

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Synonyms
1 adj · broken, ruined, or caught... brokenruinedshatteredwreckedcaughtarrestedcollarednabbed
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Word family
Related forms bustburst

Etymology

From bust + -ed; bust is a dialectal variant of burst, from Old English berstan ('to break suddenly'), from Proto-Germanic *brestaną.

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