Synonyms of bunked

bunked

verb

past tense of bunk

as in housed

to provide with living quarters or shelter

bunked the guest in the spare room

Synonyms & Similar Words

• housed
• accommodated
• lodged
• roomed
• camped
• boarded
• sheltered
• billeted
• roofed
• bivouacked
• domiciled
• quartered
• bestowed
• harbored
• encamped
• chambered
• took in
• stabled
• ensconced
• secured
• put up
• homed
• tented
• roosted
• shedded
• barracked
• bedded (down)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ejected
• evicted

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bunked

One of the inn’s most famous residents was author, philosopher and environmentalist Henry David Thoreau, who bunked there briefly in the 1830s while attending Harvard. — Joe Yogerst, CNN Money, 27 June 2026

This is where hundreds of workers bunked while building Henry Flagler’s Key West extension of the Florida East Coast Railway, which connected the Keys to mainland Florida. — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026

Some bunked in the triangular houses equipped with bottles of Amaro digestif. — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026

While newer stations typically provide each firefighter with a separate bedroom, crews back then often bunked in open barracks with little privacy. — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025

In his photographs of young men of the RAF, Beaton finds a slight homoerotic lens — there’s men sharing cigarettes, bunked together in the trenches and mending clothes on a sewing machine. — Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025