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Meanings of bust in English
Go to pieces.
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Examples for "break"
Examples for "break"
1
Yes, that really was his only break in the case thus far.
2
Popular films did, however, break into the best picture race last year.
3
Superb police work, chief: When you friend suggest you break the law.
4
NK: Today we have not heard any reports of diseases break out.
5
Mr Bell said health interventions could break the addiction and crime cycle.
1
The ready-to-wear clothes industry, New York's major industry, is almost exclusively Jewish.
2
Wrap dresses are easy to wear and hide all your problem areas.
3
She asserts, quite trenchantly, her right to wear trousers on State occasions.
4
I wish people would wear them from a voluntary basis, she said.
5
Ultimately, of course, what you wear on your bike is personal choice.
1
And so you wear out your eyesight in the working of chairs.
2
The toil was fitted to wear out the strongest of his men.
3
Running less than an hour, the film doesn't wear out its welcome.
4
Gee, but he does wear out the engines in his cars, Whitney.
5
So ladies and gentlemen, we're going to wear out some shoe leather.
1
You said Swayne began to fall apart a couple of years ago.
2
Food and water keep your body together so it doesn't fall apart.
3
There is no good reason why the United Kingdom should fall apart.
4
A deal has not yet been reached and could yet fall apart.
5
Fiction: 'Things started to fall apart at home when my brother .
Usage of bust in English
1
In the early days of the financial crisis, ACA Capital went bust.
2
But Polonsky soon went bust and ran afoul of the Russian state.
3
The bust took place at the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe.
4
In short, a good portion of the local stockbroking firms are bust.
5
In July 2012, home prices were still falling from the housing bust.
6
It is also all too clear that the medical model is bust.
7
The company went bust in 2001 owing millions of pounds to creditors.
8
Some speculators went bust, and some finance companies went out of business.
9
Security analysts say Saturday's pre-dawn bust is the most significant in years.
10
I'm not here to ask too many questions or to bust them.
11
Díaz Ferrán's own companies have since gone bust and the workers sacked.
12
A bust bank is a more serious matter than a bank holiday.
13
It sold its mobile phone business last decade, which later went bust.
14
This was placed in the temple, and the bust rested upon it.
15
If they did, their high interest rates would probably bust the deal.
16
Possibly the bust of some princess of the house of the Lagides.
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Spanish
Bust through the time
Bust across language varieties
Australia
Common
South Africa
Common
Ireland
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