BATTENED (DOWN) Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

battened (down)

verb

past tense of batten (down)

as in locked

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Twins closer Yoendrys Gómez shut the door on a Royals comeback in the bottom of the ninth and got his 15th save of the season.

— PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2026
Transits have since collapsed to a trickle with the oil artery effectively shut, pushing energy prices higher.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of shut

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Those changes stuck because they were built into how the business runs, not bolted onto a marketing model.

— Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Romanch Mahajan, 18, was thrown from a carriage on June 17 after Samson, the horse pulling the carriage, bolted, collided with another carriage, and toppled over.

— Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 30 July 2026

Definition of bolted

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Residents are encouraged to use bear-resistant containers with lids latched, store garbage in a garage or shed until collection day, and put cans at the curb the morning of pickup rather than the night before.

— Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
Impact across Europe Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, perhaps the EU’s leading right-wing immigration restrictionist, latched onto the Ceuta episode.

— Kelsey Norman, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of latched

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Min Aung Hlaing has since been barred from attending top-level meetings for failing to comply with the plan.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
Cloobeck and Lavie had publicly announced plans to get married in Jerusalem, but Lavie was subsequently barred from leaving the state due to her pending criminal case.

— City News Service, Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of barred

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So, while most of the hostages were chained to one another, Ujah was allowed to roam.

— Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
The models chained together a series of vulnerabilities to reach the open web and eventually gain access to Hugging Face, which operates an open-source developer platform.

— Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 30 July 2026

Definition of chained

Verb

The program closed two locations due to the changes and says more than 30 students have withdrawn.

— Olivia Young, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
Debsirin Nonthaburi School, where the shooting took place, has been temporarily closed due to the incident, according to Thailand’s Ministry of Education.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026

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