tided

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of tide.

   Savings tided the household over during the long strike.

   A short-term loan tided the business over until sales recovered.

   Note

   The regular past of the verb is spelled exactly like the adjective meaning "having a tide", but it comes from the verb instead. Its everyday home is tide over: a loan tided them over, and savings have tided many families over. On rivers and in harbors it is intransitive: a vessel tided upstream, drifting with the flood and anchoring when the tide turned against it. The older sense "happened" is obsolete.

2. 2
   adjective

   Affected by the rise and fall of the tide, or having a tide of its own.

   The tided estuary supports fish that thrive in changing salinity.

   Engineers studied the tided marsh to predict seasonal flooding.

   Similartidal

   Oppositetideless, nontidal

   Note

   Here the -ed is built on the noun, not on a verb. A tided river is one that has a tide, the way a wooded hill has woods. That is why it does not compare: nothing is more tided than something else. Joseph Hall's Virgidemiarum (1597–1598) speaks of "the tided Thames", a river whose level rises and falls with the sea.

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