to bustle
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4.2
- verb
- /ˈbʌsəl/
:
moverse con prisa
- Sam and Carl, laughing, walk through a large office area bustling with activity.
- bustle around
- bustle with activity
- bustle through the streets
Examples
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Finally, in Afghanistan's west, Herat City is bustling and ready to initiate the transition to local control.
Academic text (2011) -
The children bustled around the playground, excitedly playing games and laughing.
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I've got to bustle along.
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The streets should have been bustling with tourists.
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Satisfied, he led Tony across the street and into the lobby of bustling Manhattan General Hospital.
Fiction book (1992) -
The heat wave had begun, but she appeared unaffected as she bustled about her kitchen and living room.
Fiction book (1990) -
Peregrine stepped out of the taxi into a bustling exchange of visitors coming and going.
Fiction book (1991) -
Pictures by Robert Lyons show an Africa that is bright and bustling with people who are intriguing and distinct.
Academic text (2000) -
Well, I hail from the bustling metropolis known as Bodeen, Texas.
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By mid-March 1848, he was in Columbus, Mississippi, a bustling commercial center just west of the Alabama line.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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4.2
Move quickly and with energy, often because you are in a hurry
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1.0
To move your body often by doing exercise or play
5
5.6
To be full of many things or strong feeling
4
7.3
To play and move in a loud, happy way
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4.1
To move around quickly while busy with small tasks
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
How Energetic
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bustle originally described quick, noisy movement and probably came from older words for 'push' or 'stir'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of busy people rushing about; to bustle is to move with energetic, busy action.