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adjective

as in stuck
firmly positioned in place and difficult to dislodge the rusty, old bolts were so well lodged that a power wrench was needed to extract them

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lodged

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verb

past tense of lodge
1
as in housed
to provide with living quarters or shelter the landlord can legally lodge up to 20 people in his apartment building at one time

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2
as in nestled
to establish or place comfortably or snugly our pet guinea pig lodged himself in the far corner of his cage and simply refused to come out

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3
as in embedded
to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter the gunman had managed to lodge a bullet in my back, just inches from my spine

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Recent Examples of lodged
Adjective
If pellets remain lodged inside, the group warned that an infection could, in the worst case, become life-threatening. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Verb
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 Stella also hinted at recent headlines involving their nephew Bryan Seaver, who was dismissed as Parton’s head of security at her properties and had a temporary restraining order and lawsuit lodged against him by Parton’s estate. — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2026 Thanks to home video and cable TV, the film, not accounted as a success in its time, has become lodged in the childhood memories of several generations. — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026 Netflix, like Amazon Prime Video and Disney+, has lodged an appeal to France’s highest court, the Council of State (Conseil d’Etat), to protest against new sub-quota investment obligations in documentary and animation. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026 He has been held since his arrest at the Aranjuez prison near Madrid and has lodged an asylum claim in Spain. — Muhammad Darwish, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026 Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, who represents 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, said he remained detained at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, Texas, with a bullet still lodged in his body. — María Luisa Paúl, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026 At the scene Friday night, a gray electric Citi Bike could be seen lodged beneath the wheels of a truck belonging to Badger Daylighting, a company specializing in hydrovac excavation whose NYC headquarters are located in the Bronx. — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 19 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lodged
  1. stuck
  2. housed
  3. nestled
  4. embedded
  5. jammed
  6. accommodated
  7. perched
  8. rooted
Adjective
  • The buildup comes as the war, now in its eighth month, remains stuck in a stalemate.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Learning more, but feeling stuck AI can make practice material easier to find.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of stuck
Verb
  • 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
  • Sugarite Canyon State Park, New Mexico On the border where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains, the flat-top mesas of Sugarite Canyon State Park frame the indigo blue lake nestled at the bottom of the canyon.
    — Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Before his arcing shot had even nestled in the net, teammates’ arms were aloft and Sullivan was wheeling away in celebration.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of nestled
Verb
  • French doors adorned with Asian motifs lead to marble bathrooms outfitted with walk-in rain showers, jetted tubs, and TVs embedded in the mirrors.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Architecture choices are easier to change before dependencies become deeply embedded.
    — Swati Deepak Kumar, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of embedded
Adjective
  • Investigators said that the co-pilot carried out the attack with what's called a crash axe — a lightweight emergency tool stored in the cockpit to break through panels or jammed doors in the event of a crash.
    — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026
  • By weaving lasercomm links across space, airborne and terrestrial nodes alongside existing fiber and RF, leaders create self-healing mesh networks that guarantee mission-critical throughput even when primary links are severed or jammed.
    — Rohit Jha, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of jammed
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
Verb
  • The hotel occupies floors 30 through 36 of the Kioi Tower, with the lobby perched at the top.
    — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The shoes feature a wide slingback strap that wraps around the back of the foot, while a dainty bow is perched right at the vamp.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of perched
Verb
  • Ida’s stillness is shared by the whole film, which seems more confidently rooted than anything in Pawlikowski’s previous endeavors.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Once plants have rooted and produced three to four new leaves, remove cuttings from their container and transplant each into its own pot.
    — Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of rooted

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

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