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Noun: victuals  vi-tulz
  1. A stock or supply of foods
    - commissariat, provisions, provender, viands, vittles
     
  2. What needs to be eaten to sustain a person's body; food, esp. food containing the required vitamins and energy
    - nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation
     
  3. Any substance that can be used as food
    - comestible, edible, eatable, pabulum, victual, vittle [archaic]
Verb: victual (victualled,victualling, or [US] victualed,victualing)  vi-t(u)l
  1. Supply with food
    "The population was victualled during the war";
    - vittle [archaic]
     
  2. Lay in provisions
    - vittle [archaic]
     
  3. Take in nourishment
    - vittle [archaic]

Type of: eat, food, furnish, hive away, lay in, nutrient, offer, provide, put in, render, salt away, stack away, stash away, store, supply

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