busy
/ˈbɪz.i/ verb C2- To make somebody busy or active; to occupy. · On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.· The work busied me all afternoon.
He/she/it busies · Past busied · Past participle busied · -ing form busying
Verb forms
- Base form
- busy
- He/she/it
- busies
- Past
- busied
- Past participle
- busied
- -ing form
- busying
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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I told him I was a busy man and could not spend my life hiking round the world in search of Garridebs.
“Well, I’ve tried to say “How doth the little busy bee,” but it all came different!” Alice replied in a very melancholy voice.
THE next three weeks were busy ones at Green Gables, for Anne was getting ready to go to Queen’s, and there was much sewing to be done, and many things to be talked over and arranged.
But it was a jolly, busy, happy swift-flying winter.
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