victual
IPA: vˈɪktʃuʌɫ
noun
- (archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.
- (archaic, chiefly in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.
- (specifically, obsolete)
- Edible plants.
- (Scotland) Grain of any kind.
verb
- (transitive, reflexive, chiefly military, nautical) To provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food; to provision.
- (intransitive, chiefly military, nautical) To lay in or procure food supplies.
- (intransitive) To eat.
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Examples of "victual" in Sentences
- How much victual do we have
- I know where to throw victual away.
- Who is responsible for this victual
- The patient can now consume victual.
- The doctor victuals patients through tube.
- She works at a company that victuals workers.
- The tube takes a role as to victual nutrients.
- The victual is thrown away in the garbage can.
- A hungry stomach seldom loathes common victuals.
- These intellectual victuals have verily revivified me.
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