HARBORED Synonyms: 94 Similar and Opposite Words

harbored

verb

past tense of harbor

as in had

to keep in one's mind or heart he had long harbored a grudge against his old employer, who had high-handedly fired him without cause

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as in housed

to provide with living quarters or shelter the woods in our suburb harbor deer, foxes, raccoons, and skunks

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as in sheltered

to be or provide a shelter for the little cabin is harbored from the wind by a thick growth of pines

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Recent Examples of harbored One week prior, the strait harbored 12 inbound and six outbound transits. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026 Doggyland also marks the beginning of a dream come true for the actress, who has harbored ambitions of becoming part of the world of children’s animation for two decades. — Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026 If a journalist had responded that way to finding out the sole holdout on the Lindsay Clancy jury was a white man, most people would have appropriately asked what stereotypes about white men the journalist harbored. — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2026 Saudi officials harbored a long list of grievances with Qatar, including its support for the Muslim Brotherhood, a global Islamist movement. — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026 Whatever doubts McCartney still harbored disappeared when the four musicians began to play along with the tape of his acoustic solo performance. — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026 Americans have long harbored a sneaking admiration for people who buck the system, who get to make their own rules instead of having rules imposed on them. — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026 The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Lang was known to sail around the world and frequently harbored in Hawaii. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026 Having grown up with the Larrabees’ children, Sabrina has always harbored feelings for David (Greg Kinnear), though he’s never reciprocated. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 23 July 2026

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One was Larry Page, the 53-year-old Google cofounder who had ties to California for decades and began severing them after the wealth tax proposal.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
Both events revealed that the old models of long- and short-duration GRBs had holes in them.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

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On Thursday, the Kansas City Royals and architecture firm Populous revealed new renderings for the stadium, which will be housed in Crown Center.

— Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026
The service station, which was in a small town on the Adriatic Coast, also housed a restaurant.

— Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of housed

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Plage des Dames is a particularly beautiful beach, its historic white wooden beach huts sheltered by oaks.

— Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2026
Many migrants who remained in Ceuta have sheltered in Muslim neighborhoods, sleeping on streets, in doorways and in makeshift tent camps and centers run by NGOs and locals.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of sheltered

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The rapper, who pleaded not guilty to all charges, has been held at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center since he was arrested in September 2024.

— Daniel S. Levine, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025
That means every state budget could be held hostage until the whims of a small fraction of legislators is satisfied.

— Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 6 Aug. 2025

Definition of held

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Jalisco state suspended classes on Friday and Monday in 22 coastal municipalities and began evacuating people from at-risk areas while asking the tourism sector to make sure workers and visitors are fully accommodated in shelters or safe zones.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
In short, pool coverage underscores efforts to create a public record of government actions, even if every news group can’t be accommodated in a particular physical space.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of accommodated

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Despite a heavy airstrike campaign and a large ground offensive, Houthi rebels have retained control over key locations and have continued launching missiles and drones at their adversaries.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
The team retained approximately 8 petabytes for scientific analysis.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

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