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.
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Andrew Lawler, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
Andrew Lawler, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for victual
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Indeed, the homogenization of taste, caused in part by streaming platforms, social media feeds and online algorithms, means that people – even VICs, for all their wealth – often want the same things.—
Kati Chitrakorn,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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Each deployment feeds new plant imagery back into the system, strengthening its ability to detect and classify plants across diverse environments.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Feb. 2026
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As organizers headed back to their vehicles Friday, Pepe de la Torre, 64, ate a red apple and gazed at the crowd.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2026
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Eric Richins reportedly broke out in hives and struggled to breathe after eating the sandwich, used his son’s EpiPen and took Benadryl before falling asleep for hours.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
7 Feb. 2026
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Travelers whose identities can not be verified may not be allowed to board their flights.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
1 Feb. 2026
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To reach the beach club, guests board an open-air white safari jeep that winds along steep dirt curves before arriving at a secluded, postcard-perfect stretch of sand.—
Molly Barstein,
Vogue,
1 Feb. 2026
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Set across chef Carlo Cracco’s restaurant in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the venue includes an Omega Café by Cracco on the ground floor with private lounges and dining rooms above for live event screenings.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
7 Feb. 2026
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Deuxmoi showed pictures of McRae and Hughes dining at Anton’s in the West Village the month prior.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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Swyngedouw called for greater emphasis by governments on provisioning water as a public service.—
Tasmin Lockwood,
CNBC,
20 Jan. 2026
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Traditional cloud approaches provision GPU capacity and leave optimization to customers.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Victual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/victual. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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