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1. Ruin completely
   - break
    
2. Search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
   "The police bust the crack house";
   - raid
    
3. Separate or cause to separate abruptly
   "bust the paper";
   - tear, rupture, snap
    
4. Go to pieces
   - break, wear, wear out, fall apart
    
5. Break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
   - burst

1. A complete failure
   "the play was a dismal bust";
   - flop, fizzle
    
2. The chest of a woman
   - female chest
    
3. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
    
4. An occasion for excessive eating or drinking
   "they went on a bust that lasted three days";
   - tear, binge, bout

1. Without or very short of money
   "not so long ago that he was so bust his debit card was declined";
   - broke, skint [Brit], stone-broke [N. Amer], stony-broke [Brit], strapped, cash-strapped, strapped for cash
    
2. Financially ruined
   - bankrupt, belly-up

Sounds like: bused, bussed

Derived forms: busts, busting, bust

See also: bust up, insolvent, poor

Type of: assail, attack, break, chest, come apart, crumble, decay, destroy, dilapidate, disunite, divide, failure, fall apart, part, pectus, revel, revelry, ruin, sculpture, separate, spifflicate, spiflicate, split up, thorax

Part of: female body

Encyclopedia: Bust Bust, Bas-Rhin Bust, waist, and hip measurement