HOUSED Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

housed

verb

past tense of house

as in lodged

to provide with living quarters or shelter some of the freshmen were temporarily housed in local motels while the new dorm was being finished

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as in encased

to close or shut in by or as if by barriers the famous document is housed in a special display case

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Recent Examples of housed 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, 25 Sep. 2026 The Inn at Ormsby Hill Couples looking for a romantic retreat can check into The Inn at Ormsby Hill, a 10-room bed-and-breakfast housed in one of Manchester’s oldest buildings, dating to 1764. — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2026 The coast is peppered with grande dame hotels housed in former convents, centuries-old palaces, and pastel villas where everyone from Maria Callas and Coco Chanel to Liza Minnelli and Elizabeth Taylor have holed up. — Lane Nieset, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2026 As my colleague David Zahniser reported earlier this year, $300 million had been spent on the mayor’s Inside Safe program since December 2022, and as of last December, 40% of the 5,800 people who had been housed were back on the street. — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 They are also called the Elgin Marbles, after the Scottish nobleman Lord Elgin, who removed them from the Acropolis in Athens in 1801 and sold them to the British government, which has housed them in the British Museum for nearly two centuries. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026 The song was housed on the band’s fourth studio album, Overexposed, which was executive produced by Max Martin, with additional cuts produced by OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder. — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2026 The Film Commission, local crews, even friends who donated time or housed our crew. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026

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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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Chiuri’s runway was encased by a reflective glass structure, which some observers presumed was a device to prevent protester interventions.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 28 Sep. 2026
The team anticipated this when preparing for put the quantum computer in space and encased the device in centimeter-thick, aerospace-grade aluminum.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of encased

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

Samson says the wings, tail and propeller are now fully enclosed inside the vehicle during driving mode.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Each ticket includes a seat in a heated, enclosed train car, along with a welcome toast, live music, astronomer insights, and access to the open-air stargazing car.

— Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of enclosed

Verb

That, even if someone else read the words, perhaps some part of it could be withheld, could be sheltered.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
Rounding out their trio is Hazel (Kennedi Reece), a sweet, naive young woman, completely sheltered by her conservative upbringing but determined to follow her Michelle Obama dreams.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of sheltered

Verb

Cherished relatives died alone in hospital rooms surrounded by sterile machines and an ever-rotating set of masked medical personnel.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
And at the L’Anse-Pleureuse rest area on Route 198, just outside Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis, the view of a lake surrounded by mountainous terrain is well worth a stop.

— Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of surrounded

Verb

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