bused
/bʌst/
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Northern England/bʊst/
bused is the simple past and past participle of bus.
Meaning of bus
Verb (1)
bus (third-person singular simple present buses or busses, present participle busing or bussing, simple past and past participle bused or bussed)
- To transport via a motor bus.
- Because the new language school of Fu Jen University in the nearby city of Hsinchu was not yet completed, we were bused with other aspiring students of Chinese language to a farming village called Kuanhsi (Guanxi: West Pass), nestled against the tea growing hills of Hsinchu county.1999, Michael Saso, Velvet Bonds: The Chinese Family, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page ix
- To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
- But if you ask me to bus my children / I hope the cops take down your name1966, Phil Ochs, “Love Me, I'm a Liberal”, in Phils Ochs in Concert
- To travel by bus.
Verb (2)
bus (third-person singular simple present buses or busses, present participle busing or bussing, simple past and past participle bused or bussed)
Forms of bused
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Words that rhyme with bused
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Questions about bused
- What is bused the simple past and past participle of?
- Bused is the simple past and past participle of bus.
- How do you pronounce bused?
- Bused is pronounced /bʌst/.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bused (page history and authors); bus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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