bivouacked

verb

Definition of bivouackednext
past tense of bivouac
1
as in encamped
to live in a camp or the outdoors the army bivouacked for the night by the lake

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2
as in housed
to provide with living quarters or shelter survivors of the tornado were bivouacked in the church basement

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  1. housed
  2. accommodated
  3. lodged
  4. sheltered
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  • These one- or two-room shacks housed, on average, six enslaved people and had, at most, one window.
    Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Floodwaters have devastated the Biltmore Village, which is where the estate's employees are housed.
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
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  • Advertisement The centers will house only adult men, while vulnerable people such as women, children, elderly people and those who are ill or victims of torture will be accommodated in Italy.
    Llazar Semini, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The remaining 19 passengers were accommodated by a bus.
    Greg Norman, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of accommodated
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  • Walking upright slowed the transit of food through the system, meaning that waste material became lodged in the bands of the large intestine, setting the flora of the gut off balance and seeping poison into the rest of the body.
    Elsa Richardson, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Around the time of her departure, Perrette lodged accusations of an assault or a crime.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of lodged
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  • Studies have shown that mail-in voting fraud is rare, even as mail-in voting increased in 2020 to accommodate the millions of Americans sheltered at home during the Covid-19 pandemic.
    Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Several dozen remained sheltered at the university and more were staying with family or friends.
    Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
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