busting
Catching in action
Busting is the present participle of bust, carrying all its meanings: breaking busting down doors, arresting cops busting drug dealers, or going bankrupt the company is busting.
It also works as an intensifier meaning extremely: busting proud of you.
To be busting to do something is to be eager or desperate: I'm busting to tell you the news.
Busting a gut means laughing hard or working strenuously.
Fragment violently, suddenly
- smashBreak violently apart
- crackNarrow break or attempt
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- destructionAct of completely ruining
fragmentation · crash · wreckage · door · window · barrier · through · loose
Reveal what's hidden
- whistleblowerInsider who reports misconduct
- disclosureAct of revealing information
- leakEscape through a breach
- unmaskReveal true identity
scandal · corruption · fraud · evidence · informant · revelation · incriminate · transparency
Elite police squad
- operationProcess of working
- takedownForced grounding maneuver
- breachBreaking of agreement
- infiltrationCovert entry into organization
surveillance · narcotics · confiscation · seizure · taskforce · squad · barricade · undercover
shatter
Fragment violently, suddenly
- smashBreak violently apart
- crackNarrow break or attempt
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
destruction · fragmentation · crash · wreckage · door · window · barrier · through · loose · free
uncover
Reveal what's hidden
- whistleblowerInsider who reports misconduct
- disclosureAct of revealing information
- leakEscape through a breach
unmask · scandal · corruption · fraud · evidence · informant · revelation · incriminate · transparency · confession
SWAT
Elite police squad
infiltration · surveillance · narcotics · confiscation · seizure · taskforce · squad · barricade · undercover · sting
hernia
Organ breaching muscle wall
perforation · split · puncture · blowout · breach · seam · pipe · dam · levee · pressure
apprehend
Seize or understand
police · warrant · suspect · interrogate · jail · incarcerate · officer · sheriff · deputy · patrol
- breakingbreaking, cracking, fracturing, rupturing, shattering
- trend wordshashtag, meme, fad, craze, movement
bustingfreeing
Releasing from confinement
releasing · exonerating · liberating · acquitting · pardoning
bustingfixing
Restoring proper function
repairing · mending · restoring · rebuilding · constructing
- busting upForcibly breaking into pieces
- busting a gutLaughing extremely hard
- busting assExerting oneself strenuously
- busting a moveDancing with flair
- union bustingDisrupting worker organizing efforts
- busting ballsRelentless teasing or harassment