HOUSED Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

housed

verb

past tense of house

as in lodged

to provide with living quarters or shelter some of the freshmen were temporarily housed in local motels while the new dorm was being finished

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as in encased

to close or shut in by or as if by barriers the famous document is housed in a special display case

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Recent Examples of housed 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 The space was formerly home to the Conran store and most recently housed a Zara Home pop-up, as reported. — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026 By the 19th century, peep shows had evolved into cosmoramas, collected in galleries housed in urban bazaars across Britain and Ireland. — ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026 Our school would be housed in the Mountain State Spotlight newsroom, which had not been inspected as a school site. — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2026 Eons ago, the storefront housed the Miami Beach Tribune, a 1930s newspaper. — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026 This will give you an opportunity to notice what should be housed elsewhere. — Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano, The Spruce, 26 Sep. 2026 The Inn at Ormsby Hill Couples looking for a romantic retreat can check into The Inn at Ormsby Hill, a 10-room bed-and-breakfast housed in one of Manchester’s oldest buildings, dating to 1764. — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2026

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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

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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In home gardens, small orchards, and organic operations, individual developing apples can be enclosed in protective bags that prevent female flies from reaching the fruit and laying eggs.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
Samson says the wings, tail and propeller are now fully enclosed inside the vehicle during driving mode.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of enclosed

Verb

Thousands sheltered on Monday in evacuation centres in the Thai capital, parts of it still flooded after havoc brought by intense weekend rain, while swelling reservoirs in an eastern province triggered orders for more to leave their homes.

— Reuters, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026
The new 50% tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian goods will hammer many small- and medium-sized businesses, including family firms, that up to this point have been largely sheltered from the trade war.

— Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of sheltered

Verb

You’re surrounded by some of the city’s most important historical landmarks—but the history tucked away within the hotel is just as fascinating as everything that surrounds it.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
In a screenshot from the video, Schmidt holds a microphone in one hand with the other arm lifted, surrounded by others making the same gesture.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of surrounded

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Burke’s call to bar judges from allowing those accused of the worst violent crimes to be confined at home with their whereabouts tracked using electronic monitors.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Winds are expected to be strongest on the east side of the storm, meaning that winds gusting above 40 mph will be mostly confined to rugged terrain and the Mojave Desert.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2026