SWITCHED Synonyms: 176 Similar and Opposite Words

switched

verb

past tense of switch

as in swapped

to give up (something) and take something else in return switched the real grapes for fake ones switched the day of his flight from Thursday to Friday

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as in flicked

to move from side to side or up and down with quick jerky motions cows lazily switching their tails and chewing their cud

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as in whipped

to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible switched the stagecoach horses to control the direction they took

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as in reversed

to change (as an opinion) to the contrary a politician who has switched his position on a number of issues

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as in licked

to strike repeatedly the loose rigging switched the mast during the storm

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Recent Examples of switched To keep costs down, many switched to a high-deductible health plan. —

Jackie Fortiér, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026 Payload was Amazon’s two test Project Kuiper satellites that were set to fly on ULA’s first Vulcan Centaur rocket, but switched to one of the nine Atlas rockets Amazon had previously purchased from ULA as Vulcan had been delayed to no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2023. —

Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2026 After debuting super long bright blonde hair on her first day at the festival, Klum switched things up again for day two with yet another bold hair transformation. —

Meg Walters, InStyle, 13 Apr. 2026 Fletcher said investigators were able to obtain the license plate numbers of the vehicles that were driven by ICE agents but the plates had been switched and belonged to different vehicles. —

Mark Vancleave, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2026 After the Kid Laroi guest number switched things up a bit about a half-hour in, he was joined by those two guitarists for an approximately 20-minute acoustic set, which really got everyone relaxed (and/or antsy, in the case of those still uneasy at the resistance to oldies). —

Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2026 Another seat is held by an independent, who switched his party affiliation in March, but still caucuses with Republicans. —

Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026 Ford was switched to tackle midstream in the early portion of last season and was barely needed with Brown and Mims taking nearly every snap. —

Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026 As of late, the company has switched from using steel nanoballs to tell time (like the ones inside Win’s own hourglass, which had a copper hue) to using larger titanium nanoballs. —

Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2026

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Another surgery swapped out her breast implants to erase her shoulder pain in 2022, Dishell said, but doctors warned her then that her other pain was unlikely to improve.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
Although Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston, Jane Kaczmarek, Christopher Masterson, and Justin Berfield all returned to reprise their respective members of the surname-less central family, the latest iteration of the show swapped out two of the series' younger siblings.

— Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026