busy
What is the Definition of busy?
Verb:
- keep busy with
Adjective:
- actively or fully engaged or occupied
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail
- intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
- crowded with or characterized by much activity
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories)
- `engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line
How can I use busy in a sentence?
Perhaps it was because he was now so busy, what with Quidditch practice three evenings a week on top of all his homework, but Harry could hardly believe it when he realized that he would already been at Hogwarts two months.
The idea of Voldemort certainly scared them, but he did not keep visiting them in dreams, and they were so busy with their studying they did not have much time to fret about what Snape or anyone else might be up to.
So the three of them followed Hagrid and his tree off to the Great Hall, where Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick were busy with the Christmas decorations.
A murmur ran through the crowd as Adrian Pucey dropped the Quaffle, too busy looking over his shoulder at the flash of gold that had passed his left ear.
Professor McGonagall pointed them into a classroom that was empty except for Peeves, who was busy writing rude words on the blackboard.
Other meanings of busy (synonyms, cognates).
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