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Answer for the clue "Distractingly detailed ", 4 letters:
busy

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Word definitions for busy in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Busy \Bus"y\ (b[i^]z"z[y^]), a. [OE. busi, bisi, AS. bysig; akin to D. bezig, LG. besig; cf. Skr. bh[=u]sh to be active, busy.] Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on. 2 engaged in another activity or by someone else. 3 Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate. 4 Officious; meddling. n. (context slang UK Liverpool derogatory English) A police ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late Old English bisgian , from busy (adj.). Related: Busied ; busying .

Usage examples of busy.

The common man, busied about his petty concerns, did not know nor think about collective affairs because at the time there existed no knowledge or ordered thought in an assimilable form to reach down and stimulate his mind.

When he and Tamora had been ambushed at the Gate of Double Glory, or when he and Eliphas had been chased by the hell-hound, he had been too busy trying to save his life to feel real fear.

MATEKONI was busy at lunchtime, taking the remaining apprentice off with him to deal with a breakdown out on the Molepolole Road.

They obeyed immediately, Assh surreptitiously trotting ahead and busying himself sniffing amongst the piles of refuse that lined the street, and Frey dropping back and crossing to the other side to do the same.

The Colonel turned away, and the only sound was that of Barnacle, with his busy broom, up above.

Still, as the human bartender bustled through the busy streets, sun hood up, squinting, he was bothered by that droid who had accosted him.

Two lights flashed from different parts of the hills above Bassin du Sud, and he was busy with straight-edge and slide rule for a moment.

She could read, write, walk, busy herself with stitchery, play at battledore and shuttlecock with Torquil, or loiter her time away.

Just in Paris had as a matter of fact astonished de Batz not a little, and had set his intriguing brain busy on conjectures.

Philadelphia, at Marcus Hook, on the busy Delaware river where the ships of the world are being made, the Benzol Products Company turns out large quantities of aniline oil.

Bland were under discussion, Bland himself was busy with his trousers, which were showing an alarming inclination to make startling revelations.

May, when Blas toiled in the field busy with his ploughing, a prosperous-looking stranger came striding down upon him wearing a black face.

Bistari two days earlier, Brail too would have been busy with the celebration.

When this pious duty was performed, both the Bravo and Gelsomina busied themselves a little time in contributing to the bodily comforts of the prisoner, and then they departed in company.

She tuned her gitar and began to rehearse the Brekke song, softly lest the Harper was busy in his rooms.