Bust Synonyms and Antonyms

bŭst
To make or become unusable or inoperative
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break
  2. fail
  3. ruin
To come open or fly apart suddenly and violently, as from internal pressure
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break
  2. burst
  3. blow
  4. smash
  5. fracture
  6. explode
  7. pop
Antonyms:
  1. help
  2. fix
  3. mend
  4. aid
To make (an animal) docile
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break
  2. gentle
  3. master
  4. tame
To reduce to financial insolvency
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. bankrupt
  2. break
  3. impoverish
  4. pauperize
  5. ruin
  6. clean out
To undergo sudden financial failure
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break
  2. collapse
  3. crash
  4. raid
  5. fail
  6. go under
  7. fold
Antonyms:
  1. repair
*A total failure
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. flop
  2. failure
  3. washout
  4. dud
  5. fiasco
  6. loser
  7. lemon
  8. bomb
  9. fizzle
To lower in rank or grade
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break
  2. bump
  3. degrade
  4. demote
  5. downgrade
  6. reduce
To hit with a quick, sharp blow of the hand
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. box
  2. buffet
  3. cuff
  4. punch
  5. slap
  6. smack
  7. spank
  8. swat
  9. whack
  10. clip
  11. spat
The condition of being financially insolvent
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bankruptcy
  2. failure
  3. insolvency
Lacking funds
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. broke
  2. skint
  3. stone-broke
  4. stony-broke
Arrest for illegal action
(Noun)
Antonyms:
  1. exoneration

Words Related to Bust

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Bust Sentence Examples

  • Maybe the rope didn't bust loose until he was part way.

  • A bust of Odoric was set up at Pordenone in 1881.

  • A marble bust of him stands in the public library and his portrait hangs in the Marischal College.

  • In a niche is a Houdon bust of Lafayette, a replica of the original presented to the city of Paris by the state of Virginia.

  • The ' wrong ' firms would then go bust.

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