verb
- Keep busy with.
- usage: "She busies herself with her butterfly collection"
- synonyms: occupy
adjective
- Actively or fully engaged or occupied.
- usage: "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"
- Overcrowded or cluttered with detail.
- usage: "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"
- synonyms: fussy
- Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner.
- usage: "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business"
- synonyms: interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busybodied
- Crowded with or characterized by much activity.
- usage: "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport"
- Of facilities such as telephones or lavatories. ( unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line))
- usage: "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal"
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