busted

4 definitions found

busted - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  damaged \damaged\ (d[a^]m"[asl]jd), adj.
     1. changed so as to reduce value, function, or other
        desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons. Opposite
        of undamaged. [Narrower terms: battered, beat-up,  beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated,  ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound
               ; bent, crumpled,  dented
        ; blasted, rent, ripped, torn; broken-backed;
        burned-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate),  burnt-out(prenominal), burnt out(predicate)
        ; burst,  ruptured
        ; corroded; cracked, crackled, crazed;
        defaced, marred; hurt, weakened;
        knocked-out(prenominal), knocked out; mangled,  mutilated
        ; peeling; scraped, scratched;
        storm-beaten] Also See blemished, broken, damaged,
        destroyed, impaired, injured, unsound.
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. Rendered imperfect by impairing the integrity of some
        part, or by breaking. Opposite of unbroken. [Narrower
        terms: busted; chipped; cracked; crumbled,  fragmented
        ; crushed, ground; dissolved; fractured;
        shattered, smashed, splintered; split; unkept,  violated
        ] Also See: damaged, imperfect, injured,
        unsound.
  
     Syn: broken.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     3. being unjustly brought into disrepute; as, her damaged
        reputation.
  
     Syn: discredited.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     4. made to appear imperfect; -- especially of reputation; as,
        the senator's seriously damaged reputation.
  
     Syn: besmirched, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied,
          tainted, tarnished.
          [WordNet 1.5]

  busted \busted\ adj.
     1. Inoperable due to damage; broken; -- of a machine; as, the
        coke machine is busted. [informal]
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. Arrested for committing a crime; -- of a person; as, the
        rock star was busted for coke possession.. [informal]
        [PJC]
  
     3. [predicate] same as demoted; -- said especially of
        military rank, and often folowed by to; as, he was busted
        to corporal for being AWOL.
        [PJC]
  
     4. [predicate] same as exhausted; -- of people.
        [PJC]

busted - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  busted
      adj 1: out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute
             for `broken'); "a broken washing machine"; "the coke
             machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted" [syn:
             broken, busted]

busted - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "busted":
     aggravated, bankrupt, beat, broke, broken, burned, burst, checked,
     chipped, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, destitute, deteriorated,
     embittered, exacerbated, failed, flat, flat broke, harmed, hurt,
     impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in receivership,
     in shards, injured, insolvent, irritated, lacerated, mangled,
     mutilated, on the rocks, oofless, rent, ruined, ruptured, scalded,
     scorched, shattered, slashed, slit, smashed, split, sprung,
     stone-broke, stony, strapped, the worse for, torn, weakened, worse,
     worse off, worsened