Bust and Pan

Bust

Bust verb - To bring to a lower grade or rank.

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Pan and bust are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pan" instead a verb "Bust".

Nearby Words: busted, buster, busting

Pan verb - To express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of.

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Bust and pan are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bust" instead a verb "Pan".

Nearby Word: panful

good	good bust	good pan
nice	nice bust	nice pan
long	long bust	long pan
similar	similar bust	similar pan
Other adjectives: normal, complete, original, round, distinct, large, big, huge, wide, giant, bigger.

In the second episode of Person of Interest, the very last shot is a pan over to a bust of Nathan Ingram's head - revealing both that he was the founder of IFT, and his status as a Posthumous Character.

Source: Our Founder
She's attacked people using wooden skewers, a bar of soap in pantyhose, a plate used discus-style, a frying pan, knives she found in a pile of wedding presents, a pipe she ripped out of a shower, a bust of a cougar, a broken CD, and anything else she could get her hands on.

Source: Improvised Weapon / Live-Action TV
One particularly egregious case is the Pan Am Flight 103 episode, as the opening segment documenting a German police bust on two terrorists working for the PFLP that happened two months before the Lockerbie bombing shows 21st century cars.

Source: Series / Air Crash Investigation

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