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
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  • 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
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  • Related Stories Set in the Iranian village of Goorankesh, housed in an incredibly arid and seemingly inhospitable region, the film follows schoolteacher Davoud Soulan (Mohammad Rahimi), whose job lies on precarious foundations.
    — Kambole Campbell, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
  • But the building hasn’t housed anyone since early 2025, when SHO moved everyone out due to deteriorating building conditions.
    — Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2026
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  • Jalisco state suspended classes on Friday and Monday in 22 coastal municipalities and began evacuating people from at-risk areas while asking the tourism sector to make sure workers and visitors are fully accommodated in shelters or safe zones.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
  • In short, pool coverage underscores efforts to create a public record of government actions, even if every news group can’t be accommodated in a particular physical space.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
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  • The career included its hiccups, a not-yet-ready-for-primetime quarterback thrust into a starting role as a freshman, an on-campus protest in which the football team was lodged and, well, not as many wins as anyone involved would have liked.
    — Sam McDowell October 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Thompson lodged criticisms for Jones’ Silicon Valley donors, shifting policy positions and associations with healthcare companies that were fined for denying care.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of lodged

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“Boarded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarded. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026.

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