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Word entry · 4 letters

bust

Best crossword clue

"Police raid"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /bʌst/Part of speech verb, noun, adjectiveSorted bstuStarts with BEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. break open or apart suddenly and forcefully

Word origin

From Middle English busten, a variant of bursten, bresten (“to burst”). Compare Low German basten, a variant of barsten (“to burst”). Cognate with burst and bost.

Used in a sentence

  • I busted my cooker while trying to fix it.
  • Aaron got busted by the feds for leaking confidential government documents on Reddit.
  • MythBusters

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