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  • past participle of bust.
  • past tense form of bust.
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busted

[buhs-tid] / ˈbʌs tɪd /
















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Louis, in comparison, is kinda busted — gloomy, tortured, unable to fully embrace the everlasting banquet Lestat has laid out for him.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2026

“I lived in Vegas for almost a year, busted my ass to slowly build back up kind of a career in a sense,” he explains.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

Multilingual scripts, images of young women and timed toilet breaks: a police tour of a newly busted cyberscam operation in Cambodia on Wednesday revealed how fraudsters ensnare foreign victims online.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

Smith said he was once told that Williamson “got busted hiding food under his bed.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

I couldn’t see very much of his face for the handkerchief, but what little I could see was as red as a busted watermelon.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls




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