ENCAMPED Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

encamped

verb

past tense of encamp

as in tented

to live in a camp or the outdoors the hike will take several days, and we plan to encamp along the trail

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as in housed

to provide with living quarters or shelter as the hurricane raged outside, the stranded tourists were encamped overnight in the high school gym

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The Museum of Rural Arts In 2008, a volunteer association in the hamlet founded the Museum of Rural Arts, which is housed in a historic monastery (Convento di San Girolamo).

— Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
All the walls lifted to reveal this much larger space where she was housed.

— Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2026

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Videos have shown several soldiers shaking hands, sharing drinks and praying with the settlers camped outside the Palestinians’ homes.

— Guy Davies, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
In Pereira, families camped in Olaya Herrera park covered their tents with plastic, while flooding was reported at Hospital Universitario San Jorge.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 18 Aug. 2026

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Affected passengers were being accommodated on later flights.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
When the Berkeley Lab opened its supercomputing center inside the building, the site accommodated an IBM device that at the time was the world’s most powerful unclassified supercomputer.

— George Avalos, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of accommodated

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These are among the roughly 2,000 complaints consumers have lodged with US auto safety regulators describing problems with glitchy rearview camera systems, a figure that’s surged recently.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
The Other is not modern; its features are to be regarded as lodged in an era that is over and done with.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of lodged

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Hundreds others sheltered overnight at the Chiba prefectural government building.

— Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Just below the chapel that gave the beach its name, close to Tinos town, the pebbly cove of Agios Markos (south) has some of the clearest turquoise water on the island, sheltered from wind and somewhat shaded by a stand of tamarisk trees.

— Monica Mendal, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of sheltered

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