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 Rise and Shine has boarded the film and is handling world sales. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026 John Gore Studios has boarded Peter Hoar’s A Waiter in Paris, starring Leo Woodall (Tony) as a young British man attempting to make it as a Parisian waiter, as filming in the French capital. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026 Shops that aren't boarded up sometimes have cracked windows, where the looters have failed to gain entry. — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2026 Some businesses had boarded up their windows and doors in preparation for the protests. — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 1 Nov. 2026 The family fled Brazil late Tuesday, entered Argentina via a border checkpoint and quickly boarded a private charter plane, Argentinian immigration officials said. — Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026 In addition, Alexandra Brodski has boarded the series as executive producer and will direct half the episodes, including both the premiere and the season finale. — Joe Otterson, Variety, 29 Oct. 2026 In February 2023, 222 Nicaraguans boarded an airplane in Managua, uncertain what awaited them in the United States. — Lynn Northcutt Vega, Sun Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026 The family then boarded a private plane to Guayaquil, Ecuador. — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarded
  1. fed
  2. housed
  3. accommodated
  4. lodged
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  • The team fed two independent infrared lasers into the chip, creating a partially coherent mixture.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026
  • As researchers explained in a British Ornithologists’ Union blog post, the chicks had never flown farther than the entrances to their burrows, fed themselves or seen the open ocean before leaving the island.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2026
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  • Developer Mark Sapperstein, CEO of 28 Walker, plans to build 500 for-sale townhomes and commercial space on about 90 acres in Baltimore Peninsula, including land that once housed The Baltimore Sun’s printing plant and newsroom.
    — Lauren Breunig, Baltimore Sun, 7 Nov. 2026
  • If the Department of Homeland Security does not appeal Powers’ decision, Siemionkowicz is allowed to leave Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Campbell County Detention Center in Kentucky, where she has been housed since August 2025.
    — Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of housed
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  • Kim has accommodated some of these economic changes; once prohibited, markets are now regulated and taxed by the state.
    — Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026
  • An ancient Roman fort discovered in a remote part of Wales could help unravel a centuries-old legend about a Roman emperor — and may have accommodated as many as 1,000 soldiers, the archaeologist behind the discovery told Fox News Digital.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
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  • Kalshi can’t get orders blocking state gambling laws Arkansas filed its lawsuit about a week after Utah Attorney General Derek Brown lodged criminal charges against Kalshi and its founders for violating Utah’s ban on gambling.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Countess Ingeborg Kálnoky ran the guest house where witnesses summoned to Nuremberg were lodged, which meant that victims of Nazism and perpetrators of it slept in adjacent bedrooms, passed one another on the stairs and took meals at the same table.
    — Natalie Livingstone, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026
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“Boarded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarded. Accessed 9 Nov. 2026.

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