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BUSIED
BUSY
busy, occupy
(verb) keep busy with; “She busies herself with her butterfly collection”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
busied
simple past tense and past participle of busy
Anagrams
• Subedi
Source: Wiktionary
BUSY
Bus"y, a. Etym: [OE. busi, bisi, AS. bysig; akin to D. bezig, LG. besig; cf. Skr. bh to be active, busy.]
1. Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant. Sir, my mistress sends you word THat she is busy, and she can not come. Shak.
2. Constantly at work; diligent; active. Busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak. Religious motives . . . are so busy in the heart. Addison.
3. Crowded with business or activities; -- said of places and times; as, a busy street. To-morrow is a busy day. Shak.
4. Officious; meddling; foolish active. On meddling monkey, or on busy ape. Shak.
5. Careful; anxious. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Syn.
– Diligent; industrious; assiduous; active; occupied; engaged.
Bus"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Busied; p. pr. & vb. n. Busying.] Etym: [AS. bysgian.]
Definition: To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books. Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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