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🍞 Simple food 🍞 To give food
to vittle

to vittle

9.9
To give food to people, often while they travel
  • verb
  • /ˈvɪtəl/
  • Archaic
: proveer
  • They vittled the soldiers with bread and cheese during the long march.

Examples

  • In the old days, villagers would vittle the travelers passing through their town.

  • Please vittle the guests with some warm soup.

  • The captain ordered the crew to vittle the ship before setting sail.

  • They vittled the soldiers during the winter.

  • The family worked hard to vittle their guests with a hearty meal.

  • During the festival, the villagers made sure to vittle everyone who attended.

  • She kindly vittled the children with fresh fruit after their soccer game.

Synonyms

to provision
vsto vittle
4 4.0

To supply someone with food or other needed items

focuses on supplying food rather than general equipment
to breaded
vsto vittle
  • Archaic
1 9.9

Give people bread to eat

is a broader archaic verb for supplying any food not only bread
to victualling
vsto vittle
  • Archaic
1 9.7

To give food and other goods to a ship or army

is an archaic general term not limited to ships
to richt
vsto vittle
  • Archaic
9.9

To prepare a place or thing for use in Scots

means supplying food specifically rather than general preparation

Antonyms

to withhold
204 5.1

Refuse to give something someone wants or needs

to starve
192 1.7

To be very hungry and possibly die from no food

How Well-Fed

to vittle
  • Archaic
9.9
to feast
2 2.7
to feed
168 1.0
to serve
901 1.0
to provision
4 4.0

Surface Forms

vittle infinitive
vittled past
vittled past participle
vittling present participle
vittles third person singular

Etymology

Vittle as a verb comes from the same Latin root victus and means 'to give food' or 'supply with food', like when you 'vittle' a ship before a long journey. That's why to vittle someone or something is to provide them with food.