1
as in to feed
to provide food or meals for
the navy was usually equipped, clothed and victualled by the Crown
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2
as in to eat
to take a meal
that evening the travelers victualed sumptuously on partridge and venison
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Recent Examples of victual
Scholars long thought that the capability to construct and victual a watercraft and then navigate it to a distant coast arrived only with advent of agriculture and animal domestication.
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Andrew Lawler, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
Andrew Lawler, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for victual
Verb
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For developers, that means skipping file browsers in favor of instant API calls that feed data directly into live models.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Results revealed that insects that fed on isoprene leaves showed stunted growth, likely stemming from digestive problems triggered by exposure to the chemical, unlike those that munched on the normal leaves.—
Jay Kakade
June 30,
New Atlas,
30 June 2025
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The successful hatchings come about a year after Scout ate two of his chicks as a first-time dad, leaving the pair with no surviving eaglets from their first nesting season, McClatchy News previously reported.—
Olivia Lloyd,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2025
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The calls came while eating lunch, while lying in bed at night.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2025
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Hammer shared more of his family’s harrowing experience on the social media site X, which included crossing the border into Jordan and flying to Cyprus, an island nation in the Mediterranean Sea, before finally boarding a flight to Florida.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
20 June 2025
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Russell Crowe is boarding Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists’ Highlander in the Ramirez mentor role made famous by Sean Connery in the original 1986 movie.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
20 June 2025
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Both Mahomes and Kelce dined at other Noble 33 concepts.—
Jenna Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
24 June 2025
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The duo dined together, and at one point during the evening, Gerber was photographed holding onto Lewis' arm.—
Catherine Santino,
People.com,
23 June 2025
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The culprit could be that the laptop hasn’t been fully provisioned, the external hardware hasn’t been approved by IT or both.—
Daniel Root,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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No longer was the act of buying goods one of provisioning, asking for flour or butter from behind the counter.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
23 June 2025
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“Victual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/victual. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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