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
Definition of fed
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  • The group has organized several listening events, at venues from the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania to the Angel Orensanz Center, housed in a 175-year-old former synagogue in New York.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Check into Trevarefabrikken, a photogenic boutique hotel and cultural hub in a mossy-yellow building that once housed a cod liver oil factory.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 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
Definition of accommodated
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  • The shooter then fired a second shot, which hit the left pocket of the man’s shorts and lodged into his cellphone, according to the affidavit.
    — Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026
  • One tale from Windy City Ghosts goes that a few nights after the dagger was removed from wherever it was lodged in the basement, an employee, possibly a bouncer, went down the basement.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of lodged

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“Boarded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarded. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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