Board and Shelter

Board

Board verb - To provide with living quarters or shelter.

Usage example: boarded the stray cat until a permanent home could be found

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Shelter and board are semantically related. in accommodate topic. In some cases you can use "Shelter" instead the word "Board" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: boarded, boarder, boarding, boardroom

Shelter verb - To provide with living quarters or shelter.

Usage example: sheltered the troops in tents until permanent barracks could be built

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Board and shelter are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Board" instead the word "Shelter" as a verb or a noun.

old	old board	old shelter
full	full board	full shelter
special	special board	special shelter
complete	complete board	complete shelter
Other adjectives: free, single, small, entire, large, huge, black, new, portable, former, final, local, giant.

In Firefly, Captain Malcolm Reynolds chooses to take in and shelter Simon and River Tam, despite the fact that having them on board increases the danger to his crew and actually puts all them in danger multiple times.

Source: Honor Before Reason / Live-Action TV
In episode three of series one he goes to her as a sounding board regarding the case of the week and in episode six of the same series she gives Luther shelter and aid while he is on the run for the (framed) murder of Zoe.

Source: Series / Luther

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