Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to busy
Participle: busied
Gerund: busying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | busy |
| you | busy |
| he;she;it | busies |
| we | busy |
| you | busy |
| they | busy |
Perfect
| I | have busied |
| you | have busied |
| he;she;it | has busied |
| we | have busied |
| you | have busied |
| they | have busied |
Past
| I | busied |
| you | busied |
| he;she;it | busied |
| we | busied |
| you | busied |
| they | busied |
Pluperfect
| I | had busied |
| you | had busied |
| he;she;it | had busied |
| we | had busied |
| you | had busied |
| they | had busied |
Future
| I | will busy |
| you | will busy |
| he;she;it | will busy |
| we | will busy |
| you | will busy |
| they | will busy |
Future Perfect
| I | will have busied |
| you | will have busied |
| he;she;it | will have busied |
| we | will have busied |
| you | will have busied |
| they | will have busied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | busy |
| you | busy |
| he;she;it | busy |
| we | busy |
| you | busy |
| they | busy |
Perfect
| I | have busied |
| you | have busied |
| he;she;it | have busied |
| we | have busied |
| you | have busied |
| they | have busied |
Imperfect
| I | busied |
| you | busied |
| he;she;it | busied |
| we | busied |
| you | busied |
| they | busied |
Pluperfect
| I | had busied |
| you | had busied |
| he;she;it | had busied |
| we | had busied |
| you | had busied |
| they | had busied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would busy |
| you | would busy |
| he;she;it | would busy |
| we | would busy |
| you | would busy |
| they | would busy |
Perfect
| I | would have busied |
| you | would have busied |
| he;she;it | would have busied |
| we | would have busied |
| you | would have busied |
| they | would have busied |
Imperative
| you | busy |
| we | Let's busy |
| you | busy |
Verbs conjugated like 'busy'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'busy'
buoy,
bury,
bus,
bush,
busk,
buss,
bust,
buy,
abuse,
abuy,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English bisien, from Old English bisgian (“to occupy, employ, trouble, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisīgōn. Cognate with Old Frisian bisgia (“to use”). See: Old English '
bisgian', Old Frisian 'bisgia'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] within the very shortest possible space of time after the arrival of the railway train at Euston Square. And commissions and remembrances do so crowd upon one at such a time, that we were still busied with this employment when we found ourselves fused, as it were, into a dense conglomeration of passengers and passengers ’ friends and passengers ’ luggage, all jumbled together on the deck of a [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] her. She strained him suddenly and tightly in her arms, and slowly one tear after another fell on his wondering, unconscious face; and gradually she seemed, and little by little, to grow calmer, and busied herself with tending and nursing him.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Softly, softly; don't thee snap and snarl, friend, ” said Phineas, as Tom winced and pushed his hand away. “ Thee has no chance, unless I stop the bleeding. ” And Phineas busied himself with making some off-hand surgical arrangements with his own pocket-handkerchief, and such as could be mustered in the company.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] If Miss Ophelia, after three or four days of careful patient supervision, was so sanguine as to suppose that Topsy had at last fallen into her way, could do without over-looking, and so go off and busy herself about something else, Topsy would hold a perfect carnival of confusion, for some one or two hours. Instead of making the bed, she would amuse herself with pulling off the pillowcases, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Miss Ophelia busied herself very earnestly on Sundays, teaching Topsy the catechism. Topsy had an uncommon verbal memory, and committed with a fluency that greatly encouraged her instructress.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Marie disposed herself on a lounge, under a silken mosquito curtain, and was soon sound asleep. Miss Ophelia silently busied herself with her knitting. St. Clare sat down to the piano, and began playing a soft and melancholy movement with the Æolian accompaniment. He seemed in a deep reverie, and to be soliloquizing to [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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It was about a fortnight after the funeral, that Miss Ophelia, busied one day in her apartment, heard a gentle tap at the door. She opened it, and there stood Rosa, the pretty young quadroon, whom we have before often noticed, her hair in disorder, and her eyes [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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This incident occurred a few days after that of Rosa, while Miss Ophelia was busied in preparations to return north.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Emmeline shuddered. The two remained some time in silence. Cassy busied herself with a French book; Emmeline, overcome with the exhaustion, fell into a doze, and slept some time. She was awakened by loud shouts and outcries, the tramp of horses ’ feet, and the baying of [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)