bust

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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /bʌst/
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• California, Southern: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Northern-England: /bʊst/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /bɐst/
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• Queensland Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -ʌst
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• homophone: bussed
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• homophone: bused
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• CMU ARPABET: B AH1 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English busten, a variant of bursten, bresten (“to burst”). Compare Low German basten, a variant of barsten (“to burst”). Cognate with burst and bost.

Etymology tree Latin būstum Italian bustobor. French bustebor. English bust Borrowed from French buste, from Italian busto (“torso, upper body”), from Latin bustum (“funeral monument, tomb," originally "funeral pyre, place where corpses are burned”). Perhaps shortened from Latin ambustum, neuter of ambustus (“scorched”), past participle of ambūrō (“burn all over, scorch”), from ambi- (“around”) + ūrō (“to burn”).

167 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Dutch: arrestatie — act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation
• Dutch: razzia — act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation
• Finnish: pidätys — act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation
• Finnish: ratsia — act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation
• French: arrestation — act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation
• Hungarian: razzia — act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation
• Hungarian: elfogás — act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation
• Hungarian: letartóztatás — act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation
• Italian: arresto — act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation
• Italian: fare irruzione — act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation
• Italian: irruzione — act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation
• Polish: nalot — act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation
• Russian: налёт (naljót) — act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation
• Russian: обла́ва (obláva) — act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation
• Russian: рейд (rejd) — act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation
• Dutch: flop — failed enterprise
• Dutch: fiasco — failed enterprise
• Finnish: epäonnistuminen — failed enterprise
• Finnish: fiasko — failed enterprise
• Finnish: floppi — failed enterprise
• French: fiasco — failed enterprise
• French: bide — failed enterprise
• German: Scheitern — failed enterprise
• German: Flopp — failed enterprise
• German: Fiasko — failed enterprise
• Hungarian: kudarc — failed enterprise
• Hungarian: csőd — failed enterprise
• Hungarian: fiaskó — failed enterprise
• Italian: fiasco — failed enterprise
• Polish: klapa — failed enterprise
• Polish: fiasko — failed enterprise
• Armenian: կիսանդրի (kisandri) — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Bulgarian: бюст (bjust) — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Catalan: bust — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Chinese Mandarin: 胸像 (xiōngxiàng) — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Chinese Mandarin: 半身像 (bànshēnxiàng) — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Czech: busta — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Czech: bysta — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Czech: poprsí — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Danish: buste — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Dutch: buste — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Dutch: borstbeeld — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Esperanto: busto — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Estonian: büst — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Faroese: bringumynd — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Finnish: rintakuva — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Finnish: pysti — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• French: buste — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Georgian: ბიუსტი (biusṭi) — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• German: Büste — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Greek: προτομή (protomí) — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Hungarian: mellszobor — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Icelandic: brjóstmynd — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Ido: busto — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Irish: busta — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Irish: dealbh bhrád — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Italian: busto — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Japanese: 胸像 (kyōzō) — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Japanese: 半身像 (hanshinzō) — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Korean: 흉상 (hyungsang) — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Latvian: biste — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Lithuanian: biustas — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Norwegian Bokmål: byste — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Norwegian Nynorsk: byste — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Polish: popiersie — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Polish: biust — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Portuguese: busto — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Romanian: bust — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Russian: бюст (bjust) — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Serbo-Croatian: би̏ста — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Serbo-Croatian: bȉsta — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Slovak: busta — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Spanish: busto — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Spanish: herma (on an estipite) — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Swedish: byst — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Tagalog: busto — sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
• Bulgarian: бюст (bjust) — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Catalan: bust — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Chinese Mandarin: 婦女胸部 /妇女胸部 (fùnǚ xiōngbù) — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Czech: poprsí — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Dutch: boezem — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Faroese: barmur — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Finnish: povi — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• French: buste — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• German: Busen — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Greek: μπούστο (boústo) — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Italian: busto — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Japanese: 乳房 — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Korean: 앞가슴 (apgaseum) — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Norwegian Bokmål: byste — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Norwegian Nynorsk: byste — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Plautdietsch: Bossem — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Plautdietsch: Brost — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Polish: biust — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Portuguese: busto — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Russian: бюст (bjust) — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Russian: же́нская грудь (žénskaja grudʹ) — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Spanish: busto — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Swedish: byst — breasts and upper thorax of a woman
• Dutch: barsten — alteration of
• Dutch: breken — alteration of
• French: éclater — alteration of
• German: bersten — alteration of
• Hungarian: kipukkaszt — alteration of
• Hungarian: kipukkad — alteration of
• Italian: scoppiare — alteration of
• Italian: far scoppiare — alteration of
• Spanish: reventar — alteration of
• Afrikaans: breek — to break something
• Bulgarian: счупвам (sčupvam) — to break something
• Bulgarian: разбивам (razbivam) — to break something
• Catalan: esbotzar — to break something
• Catalan: rebentar — to break something
• Catalan: destrossar — to break something
• Dutch: breken — to break something
• Finnish: rikkoa — to break something
• French: bouziller — to break something
• French: niquer — to break something
• French: péter — to break something
• German: zerbrechen — to break something
• German: zerstören — to break something
• Hungarian: eltör — to break something
• Hungarian: széttör — to break something
• Italian: rompere — to break something
• Italian: sfasciare — to break something
• Spanish: reventar — to break something
• Spanish: partir — to break something
• Bulgarian: арестувам (arestuvam) — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• Catalan: atrapar — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• Catalan: enxampar — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• Dutch: oppakken — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• Dutch: bij de lurven pakken — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• Dutch: vatten — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• Finnish: pidättää — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• French: attraper — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• French: arrêter — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• German: einlochen — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• Hungarian: letartóztat — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• Hungarian: elfog — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• Italian: acciuffare — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• Italian: attaccare — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• Spanish: trincar — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• Swedish: arrestera — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• Swedish: haffa — (slang) to arrest for a crime
• Afrikaans: betrap — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• Catalan: enxampar — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• Dutch: betrappen — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• Finnish: narauttaa — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• Finnish: käräyttää — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• French: pincer — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• French: choper — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• French: prendre sur le fait — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• French: prendre la main dans le sac — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• French: gauler — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• German: ertappen — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• German: erwischen — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• Hungarian: lebuktat — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• Italian: sgamare — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• Russian: засту́кать (zastúkatʹ) — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• Russian: спали́ть (spalítʹ) — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• Spanish: cazar — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• Spanish: pillar — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• Spanish: ampayar — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• Swedish: ertappa — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• Ukrainian: заско́чити (zaskóčyty) — (slang) to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal
• German: degradieren — (US) to reduce in rank
• Hungarian: lefokoz — (US) to reduce in rank