Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bebusy
Participle: bebusied
Gerund: bebusying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bebusy |
| you | bebusy |
| he;she;it | bebusies |
| we | bebusy |
| you | bebusy |
| they | bebusy |
Perfect
| I | have bebusied |
| you | have bebusied |
| he;she;it | has bebusied |
| we | have bebusied |
| you | have bebusied |
| they | have bebusied |
Past
| I | bebusied |
| you | bebusied |
| he;she;it | bebusied |
| we | bebusied |
| you | bebusied |
| they | bebusied |
Pluperfect
| I | had bebusied |
| you | had bebusied |
| he;she;it | had bebusied |
| we | had bebusied |
| you | had bebusied |
| they | had bebusied |
Future
| I | will bebusy |
| you | will bebusy |
| he;she;it | will bebusy |
| we | will bebusy |
| you | will bebusy |
| they | will bebusy |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bebusied |
| you | will have bebusied |
| he;she;it | will have bebusied |
| we | will have bebusied |
| you | will have bebusied |
| they | will have bebusied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bebusy |
| you | bebusy |
| he;she;it | bebusy |
| we | bebusy |
| you | bebusy |
| they | bebusy |
Perfect
| I | have bebusied |
| you | have bebusied |
| he;she;it | have bebusied |
| we | have bebusied |
| you | have bebusied |
| they | have bebusied |
Imperfect
| I | bebusied |
| you | bebusied |
| he;she;it | bebusied |
| we | bebusied |
| you | bebusied |
| they | bebusied |
Pluperfect
| I | had bebusied |
| you | had bebusied |
| he;she;it | had bebusied |
| we | had bebusied |
| you | had bebusied |
| they | had bebusied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bebusy |
| you | would bebusy |
| he;she;it | would bebusy |
| we | would bebusy |
| you | would bebusy |
| they | would bebusy |
Perfect
| I | would have bebusied |
| you | would have bebusied |
| he;she;it | would have bebusied |
| we | would have bebusied |
| you | would have bebusied |
| they | would have bebusied |
Imperative
| you | bebusy |
| we | Let's bebusy |
| you | bebusy |
Verbs conjugated like 'bebusy'
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 'bebusy'
bebury,
beauty,
bebay,
bebump,
bedust,
bemuse,
busy,
debus,
embusy,
rebury,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From be- + busy.
Sample Sentences
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The whole composition or text is manly, they are not bebusied about Rhetorike flowers. [1613 [1580], Michel de Montaigne, quoting Seneca the Younger, “Vpon some verses of Virgill”, in John Florio, transl., Essays Written in French by Michael Lord of Montaigne […], page 490:]
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There is no time in this month to be spent in idleness. Prudent husbandmen will bebusy and suffer none of their domestics to lounge away their hours as though time was made for sluggards only. [1811, Robert Bailey Thomas, The Farmer’s Almanack […], May 1814, Farmer’s Calendar:]
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To continue: the unrated, as distinguished from the unruly, bebusied themselves with furbishing the barren abodes of Durfee, Farnam and Lawrance. [1914, H. Roswell Hawley, “Sophomore Year”, in George Washington Patterson, editor, History of the Class of Nineteen-Hundred and Fourteen, Yale College, volume 1, pages 25–26:]