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bust

noun as in chest of human

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noun as in arrest for illegal action

verb as in ruin, impoverish

verb as in arrest for illegal action

verb as in physically break

Strongest matches

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But the stellar run for Nasdaq Composite and tech in general looks eerily familiar to those who lived through the dot-com era’s boom and bust.

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“And ICE is gonna come bust down your door/Try to build a house no one builds no more/But I got a telephone/Kids are all scared and all alone,” Bryan sings.

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Ratcliffe had been clear in his assessment United's huge losses could not continue, warning there was a danger the club might 'go bust' unless action was taken.

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There were too many coverage busts leading to too many big pass plays, he said.

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For Stephanie Hilborne, chief executive of Women in Sport, efforts needed to be made to bust a myth "that teenage girls drop out of sport simply because their priorities change".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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