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eneath the mass of legend. 5 overwhelm, overcome, inundate:
I'm so buried in work I can't take a holiday.
business n. 1 duty, function, occupation, calling, vocation, trade,
profession, work, province, area, subject, topic, concern,
affair, responsibility, role, charge, obligation: Her business
is supplying models for fashion shows. Mind your own business
and don't be such a Nosy Parker. 2 matter, job, task, subject,
question, problem, issue, point, affair: Gentlemen, let us call
the meeting to order and attend to the business at hand. 3
dealing, transaction; trade, commerce, traffic: We've never
done any business with that company. 4 concern, establishment,
organization, company, firm, house, enterprise; corporation,
partnership, proprietorship: Rodney wants to sell the business
and retire to Spain.
busy adj. 1 occupied, engaged, employed, involved: I can't talk to
you now, I'm busy. 2 working, industrious, active, diligent;
bustling, hectic, lively, hustling, energetic: Are you very
busy at the office these days? The diamond district is certainly
a busy place. 3 ornate, elaborate, detailed, complicated,
complex, (over-)decorated, intricate, Baroque, Rococo: Some of
the late Victorian architecture is far too busy for my taste.
--v. 4 occupy, involve, employ, divert, absorb, engross: She
has busied herself with charity work to get her mind off the
tragedy.
busybody n. pry, snoop(er), peep(er), gossip, meddler, Paul Pry, Colloq
Nosy Parker, Slang US buttinsky: If he so much as sees us
talking together, that busybody will probably cook up some sex
scandal.
butcher n. 1 murderer, slaughterer, killer, ripper, cutthroat,
executioner, annihilator: That cold-blooded butcher dismembered
his victims after strangling them. 2 destroyer, bungler,
muddler: Look what that butcher of a tailor has done to my
suit!
--v. 3 slaughter, massacre, murder, cut or hack or hew to
pieces, dismember, disembowel, exterminate, annihilate, kill,
liquidate: The entire crew was butchered by the islanders. 4
botch, bungle, foul up, Colloq mess up, make a mess or hash of;