BUSIED Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

busied

verb

past tense of busy

as in interested

to hold the attention of the video game busied the child for hours

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Recent Examples of busied While their fellow Plums busied themselves with bridal parties and wedding cakes, these girls had political awakenings. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 May 2026 Appropriately, 19 miles east of their first major trophy lift since the 2021/22 League Cup, City men busied themselves by lifting the FA Cup over Chelsea in what was Pep Guardiola’s 24th visit to Wembley Stadium and his 20th major trophies as City manager. — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 17 May 2026 Another busied himself writing and rewriting the mundane information on his slate. — Taran Khan, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026 Emma shook her head and busied herself with picking up her waders. — Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026 The department has also busied itself in Minneapolis with prosecuting residents opposed to what federal officials are doing in their city and immigrants trying to flee their pursuers, a tactic seen in other cities targeted for immigration enforcement. — Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026 For the first 12 minutes, the Celtics busied themselves by snapping up free points. — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026 Eventually, though, after the Falcons recovered an onside kick successfully and knelt the rest of the way en route to a 19-17 victory, the family busied themselves jumping up and down, screaming for joy. — Diamond Vences, Charlotte Observer, 5 Jan. 2026 So, after the sombrero drew hearty guffaws, my friend Jim busied himself finding monuments to chip-and-dip tastelessness. — Lee Michael Katz, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2025

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What interested him was the gap between the performance of power and whatever lives underneath it.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 June 2026
That’s a cheap and easy analogy, but that’s what interested me to want to make this show.

— Lynette Rice, Deadline, 9 June 2026

Definition of interested

Verb

In order to inform that exploration, Knoll immersed herself in the setting on a pair of writing retreats in the Adirondacks where the bulk of the book takes place, a world away from her Los Angeles home.

— Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
Best 4th of July Apple Deal AirPods Max The AirPods Max headphones come with Apple's H1 chip to deliver high-quality audio that keeps you immersed.

— George Yang, PC Magazine, 6 July 2026

Definition of immersed

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Wells being left behind part is one thing catching attention online, as questions about whether that argument involved Wells and if there is a racial element in any of this.

— Elise Gregg, NPR, 10 July 2026
The procedures and results were published in the journal Nature July 8 and involved engineers and surgeons from the University of California San Diego.

— Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News, 10 July 2026

Definition of involved

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The naturalist George Forster was fascinated by plants and animals, but he was also driven by a passionate belief in the rights of all people regardless of race, gender, or social status.

— The New York Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
Denby, as a critic, was fascinated by the great dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, as much for his expressions as for his torso, arms, or legs.

— Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

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