boarded

verb

past tense of board
1
as in fed
to provide food or meals for housed and boarded many foster children over the years

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2
as in housed
to provide with living quarters or shelter boarded the stray cat until a permanent home could be found

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Recent Examples of boarded Former Warner Bros Motion Picture Boss Toby Emmerich had boarded FilmNation Entertainment‘s production label Infrared as a consultant. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026 Later Monday the graffiti was removed and the door was boarded up. — ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026 In Mississippi, for two decades, sheriff’s deputies routinely water-boarded and beat people in order to elicit a confession, according to a 2023 investigation by Mississippi Today. — Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026 Tran Hiep was due to meet his wife in Bangkok but never boarded his flight. — Shibani Mahtani, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026 But after their upset win over the Seattle Seahawks last Sunday, the Commanders boarded a flight to London sitting 1-2 instead of 0-3. — Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2026 Passengers from the flight later boarded a replacement plane that was coordinated by the airport and Flydubai and landed at their original destination of Tel Aviv Wednesday evening. — Olivia-Anne Cleary, Time, 30 Sep. 2026 Records also showed, according to the report, that Metayer boarded a Brightline train from Miami to Orlando within roughly 24 hours of the crash. — Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026 Eventually, an agent boarded the bus and fired pepper balls at the men, according to interviews with three of them. — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarded
  1. fed
  2. housed
  3. accommodated
  4. lodged
Verb
  • Lars Eller fed Jones coming down the left side just as Dmitry Kulikov was coming out of the penalty box.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The landscape is framed by 150 specimen trees sourced from the New York Botanical Garden and a sprawling, spring-fed pond.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of fed
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  • Crews went floor to floor, hitting individual cubicles, offices and even coordinating with a restaurant also housed in the building.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Palisades originally housed an 805-megawatt reactor, which is now in the final technical stages of restarting.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of housed
Verb
  • That would mean the new city, rather than the county, would have to identify where its share of the housing could be accommodated and establish the zoning and policies needed to allow it.
    — Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • First, the law takes its time in responding to new technologies, figuring that new tools can be accommodated within existing ideas, rules, and doctrines.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of accommodated
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  • His attorney has said Garces-Perez remains seriously ill and has a bullet lodged in his body while being held at an ICE detention facility.
    — Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The bullet lodged close to Garces Perez's spine and had not been removed as of last week.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of lodged

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“Boarded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarded. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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