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busted | arrest |

As an adjective busted

is (often used in combination with an adjective) having a certain type of bust or busted can be (slang) broke; having no money.

As a verb busted

is (bust).

As a noun arrest is

arrest, confinement, detention.

busted

English

Etymology 1

See bust (Etymology 1)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (often used in combination with an adjective) Having a certain type of bust .

    • Etymology 2

    See (Etymology 2)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) Broke; having no money.
    • I'd like to help you, but I'm busted .
  • (slang) Caught in the act of doing something one shouldn't do.
    • I saw you take that cookie from the cookie jar! You're busted !
  • * 2009 , , “New Year” (essay), in The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You , ISBN 9781458775856, ReadHowYouWant.com (2010), page 66:
    • Plus, to be honest, the look on his face when he realized how very busted they were was worth far more than the fifty dollars I paid for their dinner.
  • (slang) Extremely ugly.
    • She was cute, but all her friends were busted .
  • * 2004 July 30, "Ms Pnoopie Pnats" (username), "talking about hot or not...", in alt.support.shyness, Usenet :
    • ok this gals bod is hot but her face is busted
  • (slang) Tired.
  • (slang) Broken.
    • Synonyms
    * (tired)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bust)
    • Related terms
    * bust * busted draw * busted flush * flat busted

    Anagrams

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    arrest

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A check, stop, an act or instance of something.
  • The condition of being stopped, standstill.
  • (legal) The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
  • A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
  • A device to physically arrest motion.
  • (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
  • (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
  • (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
    • (White)

    Derived terms

    * arrest warrant * cardiac arrest * house arrest

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
  • * Philips
    • Nor could her virtues the relentless hand / Of Death arrest .
  • (obsolete) To stay, remain.
    • (Spenser)
  • To stop (a process, course etc.).
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 707:
    • To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
  • To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
    • The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I arrest thee of high treason.
  • To catch the attention of.
  • * 1919 : :
    • There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.

    Derived terms

    * arrester, arrestor * arrestment * arresting

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