tubed

USTOOBD/tubd/UKTYOOBD/tjuːbd/

2 meanings of tubed

1
verb
Simple past and past participle of tube.
We tubed down the river for three lazy hours.
The patient was tubed in the emergency room after she stopped breathing on her own.
Note
Three quite different verbs share this past form. Riding an inner tube takes no object and usually a place: we tubed down the river. Enclosing something in a tube is transitive and often passive: the seedlings were tubed against rabbits. Said of a patient, the word is casual hospital talk for intubated, and formal medical writing prefers the longer word.
2
adjective
Having a tube or tubes.
Our club still rides on tubed tires, though tubeless ones are catching on.
The ward keeps its tubed patients closest to the nurses' station.
Oppositetubeless

tubed is a form of tube

tube, verb: To ride on an inflated inner tube, especially while floating down a river. Full entry

Forms: tubetubes he/she/ittubing -ing formtubed past tense, past participle
Spelling: tube → tubed: add -d
Sound: The ending sounds like /d/.

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