bust
/bʌst/
To break; To arrest for a crime; To catch in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state; To debunk, dispel
- he/she/it
- busts
- past participle
- bust
Meanings
- 1
To break
Come on, Tom, bust him up!
Tatoeba · Lepotdeterre · CC BY 2.0 FR
But that's not the only reason he was busted.
Tatoeba · AlanF_US · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
To arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime
- 3
To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state
- 4
To debunk, dispel (a belief)
- 5
An emphatic synonym of do or get
- 6
To reduce in rankrare
- 7
To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executedrare
- 8
To lose all of one's chipsrare
- 9
To exceed a score of 21rare
- 10
To break in (an animal)rare