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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 Part of a Lavallette, New Jersey, liquor store was boarded up and a bouquet of flowers was left outside Sunday night, somber reminders of a horrific crash that killed a woman a day earlier. — Naveen Dhaliwal, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026 More than twenty-four hundred people in Yemen have boarded boats and fled across the Red Sea to Djibouti. — Kareem Fahim, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026 At this stage, Canadian broadcasters Radio-Canada and TFO have already boarded the project, and Quebec actress Mélissa Bédard is confirmed as lead voice cast. — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026 The letter writer boarded the cruise ship and fatally shot Hicklin in the head. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026 Pluto Film has boarded sales for Agata Trzebuchowska’s horror feature Sick ahead of its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin in September, which will be followed by its European debut at the Sitges Film Festival. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2026 Hang your porch swing crooked or prop scrap of wood across your windows to make it look boarded up. — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2026 The family claimed Nordquist was planning to fly back to Minnesota within two weeks, but never boarded his return flight, court documents show. — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026 Only a handful of passengers boarded the flight to Kansas City from Newark. — Filip Bondy, New York Daily News, 7 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarded
  1. fed
  2. housed
  3. accommodated
  4. lodged
Verb
  • For cases such as the one described in this recent post in which cats are being fed on private property within an association community, violation notices as well as cease and desist letters are the most common initial responses.
    — Michael L. Hyman, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026
  • First Lamar fed Jessie the blueberries, and then Tan took over.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of fed
Verb
  • This will give you an opportunity to notice what should be housed elsewhere.
    — Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano, The Spruce, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Instead, the agency housed an average of 16 detainees daily there this year, at a cost of millions of dollars, the report found.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of housed
Verb
  • 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
  • But, as seen in Piddington, that strategy can create challenges when a large asylum facility is proposed near a small community that has historically accommodated relatively few asylum seekers.
    — Inaya Folarin Iman, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of accommodated
Verb
  • 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
Definition of lodged

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“Boarded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarded. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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