moored

verb

past tense of moor
as in fastened
to put securely in place or in a desired position moored the boat to the dock

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Recent Examples of moored Once moored, a boardwalk leads through old-growth forest to the fault itself, where ocean water is drawn in, heated up high and released through fissures in the rock. — Adrienne Matei, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026 In the summer of 2021, Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of Albania, was invited onto a superyacht moored off the ancient city of Durrës, on the Adriatic coast. — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026 This unique stay is a 97-foot paddlewheel boat that’s permanently moored in the Marina of South Beach. — Sierra Vandervort, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2026 The company’s small modular reactors will be mounted on mobile barges that can be moored or anchored like offshore oil rigs. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026 The boys sailed into Da Nang Harbor at night, then moored to a giant tanker in a Russian naval base. — George Boedecker Jr, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026 This summer alone, David Geffen’s 82-room Rising Sun has been moored there, with Kris Jenner, Pedro Pascal, Courteney Cox, and Jennifer Aniston among those spotted aboard. — Alice Lindsell, Air Mail, 8 Aug. 2026 The former head of the Damietta Port Authority, Major General Ayman Salah, told the AFP news agency on Wednesday that the regasification ship was moored next to the LNG tanker in the harbour. — Mark Osborne, CBS News, 29 July 2026 The International Maritime Organization says there are still roughly 6,000 seafarers and around 500 ships moored in the Persian Gulf behind the strait. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 24 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moored
  1. fastened
  2. secured
  3. anchored
  4. clamped
  5. hitched
Verb
  • At the textile factory, Periyasaamy was folding and packing aprons with a GoPro fastened to her head.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Whitney did her own makeup, put on her Nike Cortez sneakers, and fastened an ivory bandana around her head.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of fastened
Verb
  • The defense contractor has secured a three-year agreement worth up to $60 million to advance the weapon through flight performance testing.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Roy was part of the team that secured a $17-billion settlement from Meta in a landmark case this year, and has tried many cases decided by judges, rather than jury panels.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of secured
Verb
  • Adrien Michel, winner of the 2025 le19M Métiers d’Art Prize, introduced a capsule inspired by Marcel Breuer’s Cesca B34 chair, anchored by a shirt that folds out of a leather case made with Studio MTX.
    — Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The primary driver of the forecast is a powerful El Niño event anchored across the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
    — Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of anchored
Verb
  • Once the stock is clamped, a Structured-Light sensor and a workpiece probe measure it and set the work offset automatically, so there are no stock dimensions to type in and no edges to find by hand.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2026
  • After the safeguard pipe is clamped, Juliette and her crew — including the mechanics, sheriff and Camille — venture down to the door Lukas found in the digger void.
    — Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of clamped
Verb
  • But Coyote has hitched his hopes for the mammoth case upon a man who could only be called a coward.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Looks like an entire orbital launchpad could be hitched to a semi-truck and driven anywhere on Earth, thanks to space launch provider Rocket Lab.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of hitched

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