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"etymology_text": "From bust.",
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"form": "busticates",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "busticating",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
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},
{
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"bus‧ti‧cate"
],
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{
"ref": "2012, Daniel H. Wilson, Amped:",
"text": "That's Mr. Cordwainer and he'll busticate us for a lark, sir.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To break into pieces."
],
"id": "en-busticate-en-verb-kSst6F1B",
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],
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"(transitive, colloquial, rare) To break into pieces."
],
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]
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],
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"ipa": "/ˈbʌstɪˌkeɪt/",
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],
"word": "busticate"
}
{
"etymology_text": "From bust.",
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{
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"To break into pieces."
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"(transitive, colloquial, rare) To break into pieces."
],
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