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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
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
Mara was involved in a busted pick-and-roll coverage that resulted in a Matthew Nicholson dunk and stepped out of bounds along the baseline for a turnover.
Only the Russian billionaires end the film without a scratch — or bruise, broken nose or busted SUV.
Erickson, though, saw something far more sinister in that busted device than managerial ineptitude.
“I knew that if the water heater busted or my wife’s car needed a jump, if I wasn’t there I knew there were people looking out for them.”
Meanwhile, their AC is busted and the roof is about to collapse.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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