doored

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of door.

   A careless driver doored the cyclist near the busy intersection.

   Two riders were doored on the same street within a single month.

   Note

   The verb behind it is transitive and narrow: someone in a vehicle doors a cyclist or pedestrian by opening a door into their path. Because the person struck is the object, the participle most often appears in the passive, as in she was doored on her way to work, which puts the rider at the center of the sentence. The spelling matches the adjective for having doors, but nothing else does.

2. 2
   adjective

   Having or furnished with doors.

   We installed a doored cabinet to keep the medicines out of the children's reach.

   Each doored compartment in the antique bureau locked separately.

   Similarenclosed

   Oppositeopen

   Note

   An old adjective, not a recent coinage: Middle English already had dored and dorryd, built from door plus -ed, much as walled or roofed are built from their nouns. It does not take degrees. A cabinet is doored or it is not, never more doored. Keep it apart from the cycling verb's past tense, which shares the spelling but is a separate formation.

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