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bust1 [bʌst] N

bust

I . bust2 [bʌst] ADJ inf

1. bust (broken):

bust

2. bust (bankrupt):

bust
to go bust

II . bust2 <bust Am busted> [bʌst] VB trans inf (break)

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He had begun in the 1820s making many serious portrait busts of the celebrities of the time.
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Tried to punch through a wall and busted his hand.
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A real estate boom ended in a bust.
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That office park, which had been developed for about $70 million, was not built due to the 1980s oil bust.
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Once the meter fills, the kids are busted and must replay the sequence from the beginning.
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These include portraits, pictures, quotes, busts, statues and books.
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There are no set rules for mutton busting, no national organization, and most events are organized at the local level.
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To either side, walls with busts on herm pedestals backed by young trees screen the parterre from the flanking garden spaces.
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Many of the busts created are of great philosophers, writers, and men who supported the college.
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His friends donated a bust in his honour that originally stood in the west of the station forecourt.
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