Crossword-Solution: BUSIED
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Busied | imp. & p. p. | of Busy |
We have 4 clues for the answer “BUSIED”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Kept occupied | 3 answers |
| Occupied (oneself) | 4 answers |
| Occupied | 23 answers |
| Engaged | 35 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "BUSIED"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
11 +1
New Suggestion for "BUSIED"
Related word tools
Sentences with BUSIED (5)
The second handling-machine was now completed, and was busied in serving one of the novel contrivances the big machine had brought.
And so the two young men said nothing, and busied themselves in trying to hide their feelings, only succeeding in looking immeasurably sheepish.
Then—1610-11—he returned to Stratford and settled down for good and all, and busied himself in lending money, trading in tithes, trading in land and houses; shirking a debt of forty-one shillings, borrowed by his wife during his long desertion of his family; suing debtors for shillings and coppers; being sued himself for shillings and coppers; and acting as confederate to a neighbor who tried to rob the town of its rights in a certain common, and did not succeed.
None the less, flight cancellations busied the phones at most airlines and travel agencies, while the gargantuan task of rescheduling thousands of flights with 30% less planes began.
See yon tall man in the black mail, who is busied marshalling the farther troop of the rascaille yeomen—by Saint Dennis, I hold him to be the same whom we called ‘Le Noir Faineant’, who overthrew thee, Front-de-Bœuf, in the lists at Ashby.” “So much the better,” said Front-de-Bœuf, “that he comes here to give me my revenge.
Quotes with BUSIED (3)
The next visit I paid to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March: for, though I had many spare minutes during the day, I seldom could look upon an hour as entirely my own; since, when everything was left to the caprices of Miss Matilda and her sister, there could be no order or regularity. Whatever occupation I chose, when not actually busied about them or their concerns, I had, as it were, to keep my loins girded, my shoes on my feet, and my staff in my hand; for not to …
The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.
It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1999–2020).