HOUSED Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

housed

verb

past tense of house

as in lodged

to provide with living quarters or shelter some of the freshmen were temporarily housed in local motels while the new dorm was being finished

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as in encased

to close or shut in by or as if by barriers the famous document is housed in a special display case

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Recent Examples of housed 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 Two hundred fragrance bottles are each housed in its own box, including a prototype for J’Adore’s first limited edition from 2001 with glass blown by Véronique Monod. — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026 Exowatt’s contribution is the P3, a renewable energy system housed inside a 40-foot shipping container that captures sunlight, stores it as heat, and generates electricity for up to 24 hours a day. — Micheline Maynard, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 The gallery’s New York flagship has been located on the Upper East Side since 2014, in a set of historic buildings comprising some 17,500 square feet that formerly housed the National Academy Museum. — News Desk, Artforum, 14 Oct. 2026 The entire assembly is housed in an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) container, allowing Leonardo DRS to transport it by air, land, or sea and deploy it on a single vehicle. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026 Related Stories Set in the Iranian village of Goorankesh, housed in an incredibly arid and seemingly inhospitable region, the film follows schoolteacher Davoud Soulan (Mohammad Rahimi), whose job lies on precarious foundations. — Kambole Campbell, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026 Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department records show that Magaña was the ninth person to die this year after being housed at Twin Towers. — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026

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The bullet remained lodged in Roosevelt's body for the rest of his life.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
Koyari said Japan lodged a protest to North Korea through their embassies in Beijing.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of lodged

Verb

The arthropod group includes animals that are without a backbone or any bones at all, strictly speaking, their bodies being encased in a ringed, exterior tegument and having legs and, sometimes, wings.

— Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
On the best of days a dank stillness would have encased the adobe chamber and those confined within.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of encased

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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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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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Hybrid pic shot over several years in which a child, Germán, lives isolate in a village, surrounded by adults and elderly people.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026
Blake's mother, Christina Smith, had planned to pick up her son that day but instead arrived to find the neighborhood surrounded by police.

— Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of surrounded

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Additionally, Merritt Wever, Mason Gooding and Abbey Lee have joined the cast, while The Bear creator Chris Storer has boarded as an exec producer.

— Peter White, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
Video captured on Wednesday shows glass boarded up near the entrance, where witnesses said the shooting happened.

— Doug Myers, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of boarded

Verb

Not one confined to a single house, summit, or handful of world leaders.

— Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
The district judge confined Biddy and most of the Black children in the county jail, ostensibly for their own protection from their unscrupulous enslaver.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026