Busts Synonyms and Antonyms

To lower in rank or grade
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. reduces
  2. downgrades
  3. demotes
  4. degrades
  5. bumps
  6. breaks
Search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pinches
  2. raids
  3. nabs
  4. snaps
  5. tames
  6. ruins
  7. reduces
  8. collars
  9. arrests
  10. flunks
  11. flops
  12. ruptures
  13. fails
  14. seizes
  15. captures
  16. bursts
  17. breaks
  18. bosoms
  19. bankrupts
  20. tears
  21. apprehends
Antonyms:
  1. mends
  2. fixes
To hit with a quick, sharp blow of the hand
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. clips
  2. whacks
  3. spanks
  4. smacks
  5. slaps
  6. punches
  7. cuffs
  8. buffets
  9. boxes
To undergo sudden financial failure
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. folds
  2. fails
  3. crashes
  4. collapses
  5. breaks
Antonyms:
  1. repairs
Ruin completely
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. breaks
  2. wears
  3. ruins
  4. bursts
  5. fractures
  6. fails
  7. smashes
Antonyms:
  1. helps
  2. exonerates
  3. aids
To reduce to financial insolvency
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. ruins
  2. impoverishes
  3. breaks
  4. bankrupts
To make (an animal) docile
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. tames
  2. masters
  3. gentles
  4. breaks
A complete failure
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. flops
  2. duds
  3. fizzles
  4. bombs
  5. fiascos
  6. lemons
  7. failures
  8. losers
Break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. bursts
  2. pops
  3. explodes
  4. blows
An occasion for excessive eating or drinking
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. torsi
  2. binges
  3. spats
  4. clips
  5. whacks
  6. spanks
  7. smacks
  8. slaps
  9. tears
  10. punches
  11. cuffs
  12. chops
  13. buffets
  14. bosoms
  15. bouts
  16. boxes
The condition of being financially insolvent
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. insolvencies
  2. bankruptcies
  3. failures
Arrest for illegal action
(Noun)
Antonyms:
  1. exonerations

Words Related to Busts

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Busts Sentence Examples

  • It contains 408 statues and busts altogether, the central three of which belong to an earlier cross of 1231.

  • The most striking of these are the palaces of Duke Max and of Prince Luitpold; the Odeon, a large building for concerts, adorned with frescoes and marble busts; the war office; the royal library, in the Florentine palatial style; the Ludwigskirche, a successful reproduction of the Italian Romanesque style, built in 1829-1844, and containing a huge fresco of the Last Judgment by Cornelius; the blind asylum; and, lastly, the university.

  • Here is situated the Ruhmeshalle or hall of fame, a Doric colonnade containing busts of eminent Bavarians.

  • Marble statues are out of place in the wooden buildings as well as in the parks of Japan, and even plaster busts or groups, though less incongruous perhaps.

  • In the centre of the old town is the Place d'Armes, in which stands the former hotel-de-ville (rebuilt in 174.0, restored in 1867), with busts of Eustache de St Pierre, Francis, duke of Guise, and Cardinal Richelieu.

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