1.
[syn: broken, busted]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
damaged \damaged\ (d[a^]m"[asl]jd), adj.
1. changed so as to reduce value, function, or other
desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons. Opposite
of undamaged. [Narrower terms: battered, beat-up,
beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated,
ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound; bent, crumpled,
dented; blasted, rent, ripped, torn; broken-backed;
burned-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate),
burnt-out(prenominal), burnt out(predicate); burst,
ruptured; corroded; cracked, crackled, crazed;
defaced, marred; hurt, weakened;
knocked-out(prenominal), knocked out; mangled,
mutilated; peeling; scraped, scratched;
storm-beaten] Also See blemished, broken, damaged,
destroyed, impaired, injured, unsound.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. Rendered imperfect by impairing the integrity of some
part, or by breaking. Opposite of unbroken. [Narrower
terms: busted; chipped; cracked; crumbled,
fragmented; crushed, ground; dissolved; fractured;
shattered, smashed, splintered; split; unkept,
violated] Also See: damaged, imperfect, injured,
unsound.
Syn: broken.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. being unjustly brought into disrepute; as, her damaged
reputation.
Syn: discredited.
[WordNet 1.5]
4. made to appear imperfect; -- especially of reputation; as,
the senator's seriously damaged reputation.
Syn: besmirched, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied,
tainted, tarnished.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
busted \busted\ adj.
1. Inoperable due to damage; broken; -- of a machine; as, the
coke machine is busted. [informal]
[WordNet 1.5]
2. Arrested for committing a crime; -- of a person; as, the
rock star was busted for coke possession.. [informal]
[PJC]
3. [predicate] same as demoted; -- said especially of
military rank, and often folowed by to; as, he was busted
to corporal for being AWOL.
[PJC]
4. [predicate] same as exhausted; -- of people.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
busted
adj 1: out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute
for `broken'); "a broken washing machine"; "the coke
machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted" [syn:
broken, busted]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "busted":
aggravated, bankrupt, beat, broke, broken, burned, burst, checked,
chipped, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, destitute, deteriorated,
embittered, exacerbated, failed, flat, flat broke, harmed, hurt,
impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in receivership,
in shards, injured, insolvent, irritated, lacerated, mangled,
mutilated, on the rocks, oofless, rent, ruined, ruptured, scalded,
scorched, shattered, slashed, slit, smashed, split, sprung,
stone-broke, stony, strapped, the worse for, torn, weakened, worse,
worse off, worsened