ARROWED Synonyms: 103 Similar and Opposite Words

arrowed

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past tense of arrow

as in overtook

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With retail values declining, the campus recently overtook the Trumbull Mall as the town’s top taxpayers.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026
Geely is joining the ranks of BYD, which last year overtook Tesla as the world’s biggest EV maker, as well as CATL, the world’s largest EV battery maker, both of which this year rolled out around 5-minute EV ultrafast charging.

— Chan Ho-Him, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of overtook

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According to data from the Africa CDC, the current outbreak has outpaced the two-year West Africa regional outbreak in terms of spread in the same time.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
Motorola invented the mobile phone, but by the time Brown was handed the reins, its cellphone business had been outpaced by Nokia and Samsung.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of outpaced

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The key difference is that an HGV is accelerated by a rocket before gliding toward its target, while an HCM uses an air-breathing engine to sustain hypersonic flight.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
The cancer is characterized by abnormal, accelerated growth of squamous cells, according to the foundation.

— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of accelerated

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Then, two plays later Baugh burst through the line and outran everybody for a 33-yard TD and 27-17 lead.

— Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
Quarterback Anthony Colandrea outran safety Avery Dixon on a 10-yard touchdown run, diving to the end zone pylon to finish a 75-yard drive on the game's opening series, and then Rule bulled in from the 3 to end a 90-yard march.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of outran

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The ecommerce upstart, which quickly outstripped legacy rivals like H&M and Zara in online apparel sales during the pandemic, saw its New York, then London, listing aspirations unravel amid mounting regulatory and political scrutiny.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2026
Demand has outstripped supply, and that will probably continue for some time.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of outstripped

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Created by Lauren Iungerich, Poser is a thriller in which two estranged former best friends get caught up in a psychological game after one gets the life she’s always coveted.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
What began as a Paris Hilton anecdote about her Chihuahua is turning into a legitimate product category, and veterinarians warn that the science and the safety haven’t caught up with the hype.

— Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of caught up

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Last year, horses galloped into the debate from another direction when the historian-futurist Yuval Noah Harari predicted that, in the not distant future, humans will be to artificial intelligence what horses are to humans.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
The house had been a grand property in another era, complete with Welsh ponies whose riders once galloped through the surrounding woods.

— Sara Ruffin Costello, Architectural Digest, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of galloped

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The launch abort system ripped the Soyuz capsule free of its rocket with so much force, Titov and Strekalov were subjected to 20Gs (or 20 times the force of gravity) as the capsule streaked away from the exploding rocket.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2026
Every visitor must exit through the Blood Room, a gruesomely immersive space whose walls are streaked, smeared, splattered and practically dripping with the red stuff.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of streaked

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