busted up
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When DeBlois pans around Berk’s gathering hall, each citizen seems more busted up and exhausted than the last.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
Kosteniuk as White allows her queenside to be busted up and renounces castling in exchange for the bishop pair and a half-open b-file, but neither works to her advantage in the ensuring play.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
In addition to destroying command posts, bridges, ammo dumps, and other large, fixed targets, HiMARS has also busted up Russian artillery batteries, in some cases a minute after the Russians fired their rockets.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2022
But then my dad dies, and this guy steps up like nobody in my life because everybody else was busted up.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
We all paused a minute to recognize what Mohammed had just said, then we busted up laughing.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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