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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Busy \Bus"y\ (b[i^]z"z[y^]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Busied
(b[i^]z"z[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Busying.] [AS. bysgian.]
To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged;
to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.
[1913 Webster]
Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
With foreign quarrels. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Busy \Bus"y\ (b[i^]z"z[y^]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Busied
(b[i^]z"z[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Busying.] [AS. bysgian.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
busy
adj 1: actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work";
"a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"; "the line is
busy" [ant: idle]
2: overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a
fussy design" [syn: fussy]
3: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering
old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an
officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's
business" [syn: interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious,
busybodied]
4: crowdedwith or characterized by much activity; "a very busy
week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport"
5: (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable
for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability;
(`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line);
"her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always
engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy
signal" [syn: engaged, in use(p)]
v : keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly
collection" [syn: occupy]
[also: busied, busiest, busier]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
busied
See busy
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
busied
vb.
(infl of en busy ed-form)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
busied
vb.
(infl of en busy ed-form)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
busied
vb.
(infl of en busy ed-form)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
busied
vb.
(infl of en busy ed-form)
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
busied
Engelska a.
(avledning en busy ordform=perfpart)
Engelska vb.
(böjning en verb busy)
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]Busied /bˈɪzid/ شغلFrom IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
/ˈbɪzid/