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bustingverbpresent participle of bust to bring to a lower grade or rankthe commander threatened to bust her for failing to salute breaking, degrading, demoting, disrating, downgrading, reducing canning, cashiering, dismissing, downsizing, firing, laying off, sackingabasing, debasing, demeaning, humbling, humiliating, lowering advancing, elevating, promoting, raising hiring to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debtsgambling is a dangerous habit that has busted many unfortunate souls to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forciblythe butterfingered husband had busted more plates than he cared to remember breaking, breaking up, disintegrating, dismembering, disrupting, fracturing, fragmenting, riving atomizing, crushing, grinding, powdering, pulverizing, reducingblasting, blowing up, bursting, detonating, explodingcracking, popping, shattering, shivering, smashingchipping, slivering, splintering, splittingimplodingdestroying, ruining, wrecking doctoring, fixing, healing, mending, patching, rebuilding, reconditioning, reconstructing, renovating, repairing to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous mannerbusted the storekeeper on the nose and was promptly arrested for it banging, bashing, batting, belting, biffing, bludgeoning, bobbing, bonking, bopping, boxing, clapping, clipping, clobbering, clocking, clouting, cracking, hammering, hitting, knocking, nailing, pasting, pounding, punching, rapping, slamming, slapping, slogging, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, striking, swatting, swiping, tagging, thumping, thwacking, walloping, whacking, whaling, zapping battering, beating, buffeting, bunging, chopping, cuffing, drubbing, lacing, lambasting, licking, mangling, mauling, pelting, peppering, pommeling(or pommelling), pummeling(also pummelling), roughingscuffingbunting, flicking, stroking, tappingbumping, butting, jabbing, jostling, kicking, kneeing, poking, prodding, pushing, shoving, stampingbowling (down or over), creaming, decking, dumping(slang), felling, flooring, knocking down, leveling(or levelling)rabbit-punching, sucker punchingcaning, clubbing, cudgeling(or cudgelling), flailing, flogging, lashing, sapping, slashing, sledgehammering, sledging, spearing, stabbing, switching, thrashing, whippingbeaning, braining, conking, skulling hanging one on slangto take or keep under one's control by authority of lawthe cops busted the revelers for drinking in public apprehending, arresting, collaring, nabbing, nailing, nicking(British slang), picking up, pinching, pulling in, restraining, running in, seizing bagging, capturing, catching, getting, grabbing, grappling, hooking, landing, snapping (up), snaring, snatching, trappingcommitting, confining, detaining, holding, immuring, imprisoning, incarcerating, interning, jailing, jugging, locking (up)binding, enchaining, fettering, handcuffing, manacling, shackling, trammeling(or trammelling)rearrestingremanding discharging emancipating, freeing, liberating, loosening, loosing, releasing, springingunbinding, unchaining to use up all the physical energy ofI had to bust my butt in order to get the project done on time breaking, burning out, doing in, doing up, draining, exhausting, fagging, fatiguing, frazzling, harassing, killing, knocking out, outwearing, tiring, tuckering (out), washing out, wearing, wearing out, wearying debilitating, enervating, enfeebling, sapping, wasting, weakening wearing to a frazzle activating, energizing, invigorating, rejuvenating, strengthening, vitalizingrelaxing, resting, unwinding |