ferried

verb

Definition of ferriednext
past tense of ferry
1
as in carried
to support and take from one place to another there are shuttle buses to ferry visitors from the parking lots to the fairground

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2
as in sailed
to travel on water in a vessel we're planning to ferry to several islands in the Lesser Antilles

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ferried
  1. carried
  2. hauled
  3. transported
  4. sent
  5. brought
Verb
  • The White House Offer would lead customers to buy other Microsoft products that ran on Azure, the company’s cloud platform, which carried additional charges based on how much storage space and computing power the customer used.
    Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The Knights, led by fellow Sharks prospect Sam Dickinson, carried a nine-game win streak into Friday and had an overall record of 13-4-0-0.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of carried
Verb
  • Nearby residents hauled buckets of river water to flush toilets.
    Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Mules hauled food and supplies to the Buncombe County town of Black Mountain on Tuesday, Mountain Mule Packers wrote on Facebook.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of hauled
Verb
  • After the suspect was hit, officers provided medical assistance and transported him to a hospital.
    Teri Figueroa, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Police transported the fans away on buses.
    Henry Austin, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of transported
Verb
  • Payments of $1 million and $800,000 were sent in October 2012… Affinity sent $800,000 to Swizz Beatz’s Monza Studios in November 2013 and $1 million in December 2013.
    Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • State lawmakers, by majority vote in 2023, sent the Back the Blue Act to the ballot.
    Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of sent
Verb
  • As for texts, almost all messages sent between iPhones should be encrypted end-to-end by Apple’s iMessage system, and Google’s implementation of the RCS standard has brought end-to-end encryption to most Android-to-Android messaging.
    Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 16 Nov. 2024
  • County officials attributed increasing mosquito activity to warmer temperatures brought by climate change.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of brought
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