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busted
adjective as in bad off
adjective as in broken
adjective as in broken
adjective as in damaged
adjective as in destitute
Strongest matches
adjective as in in disrepair
adjective as in impaired
adjective as in indigent
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in insolvent
Strong match
adjective as in on the blink
adjective as in ruined
adjective as in tame
Strong matches
adjective as in worn
Strong matches
adjective as in worn/worn-out
Weak matches
- beat
- burned out
- bushed
- clichéd
- consumed
- depleted
- destroyed
- deteriorated
- drained
- drawn
- effete
- exhausted
- fatigued
- frayed
- gone
- hackneyed
- had it
- haggard
- jaded
- kaput
- knocked out
- old
- out of gas
- overused
- overworked
- pinched
- played-out
- pooped
- ragged
- ruined
- shabby
- shot
- spent
- stale
- tattered
- the worse for wear
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired out
- totaled
- used-up
- useless
- wearied
- weary
- well-worn
- wiped-out
- worn-down
- wrung out
Example Sentences
The special teams failed to put enough players on the field, leading to a busted punt coverage.
Los Angeles police said they busted a massive cargo theft operation being run by a business with storefronts in Montebello and Huntington Park.
Lives are more complicated than what your busted heart may want to read from a voice that conjured heaven and the abyss.
It’s late and it’s hot — the AC is busted.
“When’s the last time the feds busted up a card game? The 1920s?”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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