BUNKED Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

bunked

verb

past tense of bunk

as in housed

to provide with living quarters or shelter bunked the guest in the spare room

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Recent Examples of bunked Artists and engineers bunked in, the artist’s turtle Rocky charmed visitors, and Rauschenberg created some key works in his studio there. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2026 One of the inn’s most famous residents was author, philosopher and environmentalist Henry David Thoreau, who bunked there briefly in the 1830s while attending Harvard. — Joe Yogerst, CNN Money, 27 June 2026 This is where hundreds of workers bunked while building Henry Flagler’s Key West extension of the Florida East Coast Railway, which connected the Keys to mainland Florida. — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026 Some bunked in the triangular houses equipped with bottles of Amaro digestif. — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026 While newer stations typically provide each firefighter with a separate bedroom, crews back then often bunked in open barracks with little privacy. — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025 In his photographs of young men of the RAF, Beaton finds a slight homoerotic lens — there’s men sharing cigarettes, bunked together in the trenches and mending clothes on a sewing machine. — Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025

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Modi would be housed in a specific section of Arthur Road Jail and would have access to specialist treatment, Indian authorities said, including care from a private doctor or mental health expert of his choice.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
This is a classic game reimagined, with glossy resin tiles housed in a calfskin case that’s almost too beautiful to tuck away in your bag.

— Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of housed

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Taiwan fits neither category as a guest but Nagasaki accommodated its representatives at their request last year, officials said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
Of those families, the district accommodated 69% of the requests, while about 118 families were not transferred to their preferred school, Spielberg said.

— Molly Gibbs, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of accommodated

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These are among the roughly 2,000 complaints consumers have lodged with US auto safety regulators describing problems with glitchy rearview camera systems, a figure that’s surged recently.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
The Other is not modern; its features are to be regarded as lodged in an era that is over and done with.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026

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