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Bust

noun
1.
A complete failure.  Synonyms: fizzle, flop.
2.
The chest of a woman.  Synonym: female chest.
3.
A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person.
4.
An occasion for excessive eating or drinking.  Synonyms: binge, bout, tear.
verb
(past & past part. bust; pres. part. bursting; the past participle bursten is obsolete)
1.
Ruin completely.  Synonym: break.
2.
Search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on.  Synonym: raid.
3.
Separate or cause to separate abruptly.  Synonyms: rupture, snap, tear.  "Tear the paper"
4.
Go to pieces.  Synonyms: break, fall apart, wear, wear out.  "The gears wore out" , "The old chair finally fell apart completely"
5.
Break open or apart suddenly and forcefully.  Synonym: burst.
adjective
1.
Lacking funds.  Synonyms: broke, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke.



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"Bust" Quotes from Famous Books



... may bust such a bonnet and crush it if you will, But the scent of the pancake will cling ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye
... Lone assured him without emotion. "She's been left alone a week or two at a time during roundups. I don't reckon the outfit'll bust up before you ...
— The Quirt • B.M. Bower
... midget. "Truth is, Mr. Welborn, I'm not posted on the bear market. Offhand, I would say that they were not worth much to a show that was losing money by the bale. You see, this good old year of '32 is a bust. A depression hits a circus first and hardest. Just now, we are cutting the season and have planned a straightaway back to winter quarters. Instead of going down through Fort Collins, Greeley, Denver, Pueblo, with a swing through Texas, we have canceled everything. We play this Union Pacific ...
— David Lannarck, Midget - An Adventure Story • George S. Harney
... in which, however, the most marked simplicity was preserved. A plain white muslin dress gave full developement to a person, which was of a perfection that no dress could have disguised. It was the bust of a Venus, united to a form, to create which would have taxed the imaginative powers of a Praxiteles—a form so faultlessly moulded that every movement presented some new and unpremeditated grace. What added to the surpassing richness of her beauty ...
— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson
... Washington's face, modelled a complete head and bust in clay, made a cast from that, took the latter to France, and from it executed the statue now in the capitol at Richmond. He made careful measurements of Washington's figure, and in Paris, ...
— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing


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