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cubbed

/kʌbd/

cubbed is the simple past and past participle of cub.

Meaning of cub

Verb

cub (third-person singular simple present cubs, present participle cubbing, simple past and past participle cubbed)

  1. To give birth to cubs.
  2. To hunt fox cubs.
    • He knew that, only a few hours from London, the Hunt was cubbing over his ancestral and much-mortgaged acres, while his own horse ate its head off in a stable.1943, Stuart Palmer, The Puzzle of the Silver Persian
  3. (obsolete) To shut up or confine.
    • to fall from heaven to hell, to be cubbed up upon a sudden1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC

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Words that rhyme with cubbed

Questions about cubbed

What is cubbed the simple past and past participle of?
Cubbed is the simple past and past participle of cub.
How do you pronounce cubbed?
Cubbed is pronounced /kʌbd/.

Words near cubbed in the dictionary

  1. Cubatón
  2. Cubay
  3. Cubba
  4. Cubbage
  5. Cubbages
  6. cubbed
  7. cubbies
  8. cubbing
  9. Cubbington
  10. cubbish
  11. cubbishly

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