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Bushed

Definition: Bushed

Bushed

Adjective

1. (informal) very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip".

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Date "bushed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)


Synonyms: Bushed

Synonyms: all in(p) (adj), beat(p) (adj), bushed(p) (adj), dead(p) (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bushed

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Fatigue

Adjective: fatigued, tired; Verb: weary; drowsy; drooping; Verb: haggard; toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated, weather-beaten; faint; done up, used up, knocked up; bushed ; exhausted, prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed, unrestored.

Uncertainty

In a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze; bushed, off the track; ignorant.; afraid to say; out of one's reckoning, astray, adrift; at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus; puzzled; Verb: lost, abroad, d_sorient_; distracted, distraught.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Bushed

English words defined with "bushed": Bush pea. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bushed": rubber-bushed couplings. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Bushed

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bushed

"Bushed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Bushed" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)66.67%6143,867
Lexical Verb (past tense)33.33%3202,518
                    Total100.00%9N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Bushed

Language Translations for "bushed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

озадачен (perplexed, puzzled, quizzical), объркан (addle-brained, confused, deranged, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, foggy, graven, haywire, helter-skelter, intricate, involute, lost, mazy, mixed, mixed up, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, obscure, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, raddle, tangly, turbid, undigested, unglued, woolly), обрасъл с храсти (shrubby), изтощен (all in, down and out, effete, emaciated, enervate, exhausted, gaunt, jaded, limp, perished, played out, prostrate, run down, screwy, shagged out, shot, sick, spent, used up, weary, whacked), изморен (careworn, exhausted, forworn, tired, weary). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

丛". (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyèerpaný (effete, exhausted, fatigued, finished, gone, impoverished, spent, stale, washed out, worn out), utahaný (clapped out, dog tired, dog-weary, dopey, exhausted, washed out, worn out). (various references)

   

Danish

  

tovskive med boesning (bushed pulley). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ineengeschoren leischijf (bushed pulley). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

holkitettu vetopyörä (bushed pulley). (various references)

   

French

  

ahuri. (various references)

   

German

  

groggy (all in, groggy). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τροχαλία συνδεδεμένη στην κλίνη της (bushed pulley). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vadonban elveszett, tanácstalan (at one's wits end, puzzled, to be all at sea, to be at a loss), sűrűben eltévedt, sűrűben, meglepett (dumbfounded, dumfounded, stricken), meghökkent (abashed, amaze, astonish, astound, be taken aback, bowl over, dumbfounded, dumfounded, flabbergasted, flummox, knock, nonplus, nonplussed, perplex, perplexed, thunderstruck, to abash, to amaze, to appal, to appall, to bowl over, to dumbfound, to flabbergast, to flummox, to nonplus, to perplex, to sensationalize), elveszett (gone, lorn, lost, missing, to be gone, to be missing, undone). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cespuglioso (brushy). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

덤불로 둘러싸". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ushedbay

   

Portuguese

  

exausto (blown, dead beat, done, effete, exhausted, faint, impoverished children, jaded, outworn, overwrought, player, spent, whacked), cansado (done, jaded, outworn, played out, strained, tired, washed out, weary, whacked, worn out). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

perplejo (at a loss, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, leak, perplexed, puzzled), cubierto de malezas, agotado (beaten, bleary, depletive, distressful, distressing, drained, effete, exhausted, gruel, jaded, outsold, overwrought, played out, shot, sold out, spent, tired, tired out, unavailable, warn out, washed out, washed up, whacked, worn out). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

brytskiva med lagerbussning (bushed pulley). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เหนื่อยมาก (buggered, fagged, gruelling). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bitkin (all in, all out, beat, broken down, dead beat, dog tired, drained, drawn, drawn out, drooping, effete, exhausted, faint, forworn, haggard, jaded, knackered, languorous, overdone, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, run down, spent, stale, tired, tired to death, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, washed out, weakly, weary, whacked, wonky, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle, wretched, zonked), yorgun (all in, all out, done, drawn, effete, forworn, jaded, languorous, off, pooped, pooped out, run down, spent, stale, tired, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, wan, washed out, weary, whacked, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle), turşu gibi (all in, beat, exhausted, whacked). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bushed

Derivations

Words ending with "bushed": ambushed. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Bushed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aushev, Bershad, Bewsher, bogshed, boshe, boshed, Bozhe, buchet, Busche, bushi, bushveld. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Bushed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-h-s-u"

-1 letter: bused.

-2 letters: beds, bedu, buds, bush, debs, dubs, dues, edhs, hubs, hued, hues, shed, sued, used.

-3 letters: bed, bud, bus, deb, dub, due, duh, edh, eds, hes, hub, hue, she, sub, sue, use.

-4 letters: be, de, ed, eh, es, he, sh, uh, us.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-e-h-s-u"
 

+1 letter: blushed, brushed, subhead.

 

+2 letters: ambushed, beshroud, busheled, subheads.

 

+3 letters: beshouted, beshrouds, birdhouse, blueheads, bulkheads, bullheads, burnished, bushelled, debauches, debouches, dumbheads, furbished, habitudes, hebetudes, husbanded, husbander, kurbashed, published, sunbathed, unabashed, unbrushed.

 

+4 letters: airbrushed, bawdyhouse, beshrouded, birdhouses, bounderish, debauchees, debauchers, housebound, husbanders, husbandmen, outblushed, shadbushes, subheading, subtrahend, underbrush, undershrub.

 

+5 letters: bawdyhouses, beshrouding, blueshifted, bubbleheads, buffleheads, bullshitted, bushwhacked, copublished, husbandries, refurbished, republished, rhomboideus, shipbuilder, subheadings, subtrahends, unabashedly, unblemished, undershrubs, unpublished.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bushed


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 75 73 68 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..-    ...    ....    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110101 01110011 01101000 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#115 &#104 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 0073 0068 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

368785747170

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Bushed"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводбългарски, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarialainen, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, 중국, chinês, chino, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin

Czech

slovník, definice, překladчешки, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체", checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelseдатски език, датски, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dán, danese, 덴마크, dinamarquês, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatieхоландски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, olandese, 네덜란", holandês, holandés, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutosфински език, фински, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finn, finlandese, 핀란", finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionфренски език, френски, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, "랑스, francês, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionгермански, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , nìmec, nìmecký, tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, 독일, alemão, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηгръцки език, гръцки, грък, 希腊语, 希臘語 , řek, řecký, řeètina, græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, 그리스, grego, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , maïarský, maïarština, maïar, ungarer, Hongaarse, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneиталиански език, италиански, италианец, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italský, italština, ital, italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan

Korean

사 , 의, 번역корейски език, корейски, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , korejec, korejština, korejský, Koreaans, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, koreai, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, coreano, koreansk, ชาวเกาหลี, kore'li

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoпортугалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalský, portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, 포르투갈, português, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónиспански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, 스페인, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättningшведски, шведски език, швед, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, 스웨덴, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí

Thai

พจนานุกรม泰國 , 泰文 , 泰 , 泰語 , 泰国, thailænder, Thais, Thai, thaimaalainen, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, 타이 말, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeтурски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turecký, tureètina, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationанглийски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, 영국, inglês, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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