QUARTERED Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

quartered

verb

past tense of quarter

as in housed

to provide with living quarters or shelter the militia is being quartered just outside the city

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Recent Examples of quartered One of the animals had been fully skinned while the other had been quartered. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026 The biggest games, the greatest stages, have been quartered off by a velvet rope. — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 13 June 2026 This side of deeply roasted, tender sweet potatoes comes quartered and seasoned with GK’s take on togarashi. — Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Apr. 2026 Finally, he was drawn and quartered, his remains displayed in the public square. — Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026 Once they're quartered, drizzle them with cream and top them with white cake mix and butter. — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Feb. 2026 Close-quartered and stylish, the movie begins at a Gothic New England mansion where the wealthy patriarch Harlan Thrombey has been found with his throat slit. — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025 In the old days beggars were drawn and quartered in that square. — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025 Sprinkle quartered cookies over sherbet mixture, pressing gently into the mixture. — Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for quartered

Verb

The group has organized several listening events, at venues from the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania to the Angel Orensanz Center, housed in a 175-year-old former synagogue in New York.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Check into Trevarefabrikken, a photogenic boutique hotel and cultural hub in a mossy-yellow building that once housed a cod liver oil factory.

— Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of housed

Verb

The building’s size has accommodated the installation of large-scale architectural holdings, including a three-story section of the concrete façade of Robin Hood Gardens, an influential brutalist public-housing project in East London.

— Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Adorable guest dogs were also accommodated at breakfast, which further added to the home-away-from-home experience.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of accommodated

Verb

Alongside Amazon Prime Video and Disney+, Netflix has lodged an appeal with France’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’État, challenging new sub-quotas for investment in documentaries and animation.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026
The protests being lodged against that decision provide some comfort, and Louise would have been grateful for them.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of lodged

Verb

George, Louise and her kids camped in Garden of the Gods, at Shawnee National Forest.

— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
To make this documentary, Fielder, Oppenheim, and their crew camped out with Holmes, her partner Billy Evans, and their two small children, observing their lives up-close—or as up-close as possible.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 Oct. 2026