Definition: keep busy with
Usage: She busies herself with her butterfly collection
Main entry: busy
Definition: crowded with or characterized by much activity
Usage: a very busy week; a busy life; a busy street; a busy seaport
Main entry: busy
Definition: actively or fully engaged or occupied
Usage: busy with her work; a busy man; too busy to eat lunch
Main entry: meddlesome, meddling, interfering, officious, busy, busybodied
Definition: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
Usage: an interfering old woman; bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself; busy about other people's business
Main entry: engaged, in use, busy
Definition: (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)
Usage: her line is busy; receptionists' telephones are always engaged; the lavatory is in use; kept getting a busy signal
Definition: overcrowded or cluttered with detail
Usage: a busy painting; a fussy design