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• v  ruin completely
  He busted my radio!
• v  search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
• v  separate or cause to separate abruptly
• v  go to pieces
• v  break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
• s  out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken')
  the coke machine is busted

• He took to the streets early, was busted almost at once for shoplifting, later for delivering drugs.
• That's why politicians have suddenly started to act like real human beings in their campaign ads, and why somelike Senator George Allen of "Macacagate" famehave been busted .

• break
• bust
• raid
• tear
• rupture
• snap
• wear
• wear out
• fall apart
• burst
• broken

• repair

News & Articles

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• Man busted for weed, LSD-laced candies in Solon
  A Cleveland man charged after he's busted with drugs in Solon.
  June 13, 2013 - 19 Action News Cleveland
• One man, three juveniles busted on burglary charges in Boca
  Boca Raton police Wednesday busted one man and three juveniles after police said they drove a rental car into a community to burglarize houses, only to give a variety of stories when questioned.        
  June 13, 2013 - Sun-Sentinel
• Bonnaroo-bound men busted with large amount of drugs, police say
  Two California men heading to Bonnaroo were busted during a pit stop in Nashville with large amounts of cocaine, hallucinogenic mushrooms, prescription pills and marijuana, police said.
  June 13, 2013 - Ashland City Times

Quotes

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• Tiger Wood in Las Vegas Review-Journal
  I had a busted-up lip and a pretty sore neck, and that was it,he said.
• Joe Paterno in USA Today
  Their balloon still isn't busted,Paterno said. "If we win the next two we'll have an opportunity to go to a big bowl."
• Judd Gregg in FOXNews
  Ronald Reagan, the man who busted unions, the man who did everything in his power to destroy the organized labor movement, the man who created a tax structure that favored the richest Americans against middle class and working families, ...... we... John Edwards http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHbLvQmQyx1Z616AZ49tHoKmvcFSw Forbes http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/01/18/ap4550299.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEkMJoW9KLf4MJqDM6Q6Rif-2G4Hg Jan 18, 2008 13886 18716 buster You just have to ask yourself how we, as a party, got to this point, where we have a leadership which is going to ram down the throats of our party the biggest budget buster in the history of the Congress under Republican leadership," Gregg said.