bused
- 1Simple past and past participle of bus.
The district bused students across town to balance enrollment.
Hundreds of laborers were bused to the construction site before dawn.
Note
One spelling carries every meaning of the verb behind it. Workers are bused to a site; in American schools, children were bused to more distant schools to achieve racial integration; in American restaurants, a busboy has bused the tables, clearing away the remains of meals. The form serves as past tense and as participle, after have or in the passive, and the doubled spelling bussed also appears in print.
She bused tables at a diner all summer.
Have the tables by the window been bused yet?
bused is a form of bus
bus, verb: To travel by bus. Full entry
- Spelling
- bus → bused: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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