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victual
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun victual has 1 sense
- victual(n = noun.food) comestible, eatable, edible, pabulum, victuals - any substance that can be used as food; Array is a kind of food, nutrient
has particulars: tuck
Derived forms verb victual3, verb victual2, verb victual1
Verb victual has 3 senses
- victual(v = verb.possession) Array - supply with food; "The population was victualed during the war" is one way to furnish, provide, render, supply
- victual(v = verb.possession) Array - lay in provisions; "The vessel victualled before the long voyage" is one way to hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store
- victual(v = verb.consumption) Array - take in nourishment; Array is one way to eat
Derived forms noun victual1, noun victualer2, noun victualer1, noun victualler2, noun victualler1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derived form noun victual1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Derived form noun victual1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
CIDE DICTIONARY
victual, n.
- Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals. 2 Chron. xi. 23. Shak. [1913 Webster]"He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual." [1913 Webster]"There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand
Bare victual for the mowers." [1913 Webster]"Short allowance of victual." [1913 Webster] - Grain of any kind. Jamieson. [1913 Webster]
victual, v. t.
To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship. [1913 Webster]
"I must go victual Orleans forthwith."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
victual, n. & v.
--n. (usu. in pl.) food, provisions, esp. as prepared for use.
--v. (victualled, victualling; US victualed, victualing)
1 tr. supply with victuals.
2 intr. obtain stores.
3 intr. eat victuals.
--n. (usu. in pl.) food, provisions, esp. as prepared for use.
--v. (victualled, victualling; US victualed, victualing)
1 tr. supply with victuals.
2 intr. obtain stores.
3 intr. eat victuals.
Derivative
victualless adj.
Etymology
ME f. OF vitaille f. LL victualia, neut. pl. of L victualis f. victus food, rel. to vivere live
ROGET THESAURUS
victual
Provision
VB provide, make provision, make due provision for, lay in, lay in a stock, lay in a store, supply, suppeditate, furnish, find, find one in, arm, cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage, beat up for, stock, stock with, make good, replenish, fill, fill up, recruit, feed, have in store, have in reserve, keep, keep by one, keep on foot, keep on hand, have to fall back upon, store, provide against a rainy day.
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