victualing

verb

variants or victualling
Definition of victualingnext
present participle of victual
1
as in boarding
to provide food or meals for the navy was usually equipped, clothed and victualled by the Crown

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2
as in feeding
to take a meal that evening the travelers victualed sumptuously on partridge and venison

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for victualing
  1. boarding
  2. eating
  3. feasting
Verb
  • Many times, that friend never shows up, or arrives 90 minutes later, when the plane is boarding.
    Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Even something as straightforward-seeming as passengers boarding and disembarking from the ship is more complicated here.
    Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of boarding
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  • Wilds lives up to this side of the series, though Capcom seems to be reckoning somewhat with its meat-eating bloodlust.
    Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Iris lumbered over and started eating from the pile under Poppy.
    Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of eating
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  • Research has also shown that the site was used for feasting and acted as a burial ground for locals and others further afield (like from Wales).
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Louis spotted three lion cubs, only 18 months old, feasting on a Bushbuck.
    Lucy Edwards, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of feasting
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