victual

verb

Definition of victualnext
1
as in to feed
to provide food or meals for the navy was usually equipped, clothed and victualled by the Crown

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2
as in to eat
to take a meal that evening the travelers victualed sumptuously on partridge and venison

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Recent Examples of victual Scholars long thought that the capability to construct and victual a watercraft and then navigate it to a distant coast arrived only with advent of agriculture and animal domestication. — Andrew Lawler, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for victual
  1. feed
  2. eat
  3. board
  4. dine
  5. provision
Verb
  • My folks love to entertain and Costco’s forklift-trafficked aisles are primed to feed the 20-plus members of my extended family.
    — Jenn de la Vega, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The coach had criticized Brooklyn’s shot selection and turnovers before the game, saying the Nets’ decisions with the ball were feeding their problems on defense.
    — C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of feed
Verb
  • Raw eggs stored above ready to eat cut greens in reach-in refrigerator.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The places where Baltzor typically ranges her cattle in the mountains were ravaged by record-size wildfires this summer, robbing them of the grass the herds usually eat.
    — Anna King, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of eat
Verb
  • The family fled Brazil late Tuesday, entered Argentina via a border checkpoint and quickly boarded a private charter plane, Argentinian immigration officials said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026
  • In February 2023, 222 Nicaraguans boarded an airplane in Managua, uncertain what awaited them in the United States.
    — Lynn Northcutt Vega, Sun Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of board
Verb
  • All-in voyage pricing includes Wi-Fi, dining at more than 20 eateries, genuinely fun entertainment, fitness classes, and nonalcoholic drinks.
    — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The king and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, are also said to have dined in the Great Hall.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of dine
Verb
  • The question no longer would be simply what provisions a union can persuade a school to accept, but what provisions an outside arbitration panel could compel it to accept.
    — Mailee Smith, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • An essential state role, parallel to provisioning basic services like education and healthcare, is endowing a wide open aesthetic field of form and meaning and collective sensibility.
    — Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of provision

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“Victual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/victual. Accessed 31 Oct. 2026.

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