BATTENED (DOWN) Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

battened (down)

verb

past tense of batten (down)

as in locked

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Deadline revealed on Wednesday that the BBC is expected to announce TV and radio network closures early next week, with speculation that BBC Three could be shut.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026
In short order, Ford halted Explorer production in Chicago for a week amid magnet shortages, while Japanese and European auto suppliers shut production lines awaiting materials.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of shut

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With third base open, Crews and Abrams bolted, and both slid in safely.

— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 26 Sep. 2026
Loan origination platforms are even further behind; most AI in mortgage lending today arrives as a third-party add-on bolted onto infrastructure that wasn’t designed for it.

— Wesley D. Snow, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of bolted

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His father, Jeff Cebula, said his son was looking at fish in a creek when a beaver latched onto his chest.

— Ashley Paul, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
And a lot of people latched onto her as this avatar of this particular viewpoint of keeping women's sports exclusively for cisgender women.

— Sam Fragoso, NPR, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of latched

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In a message to District 118 families Thursday, interim co-superintendents Todd Leden and Brian Wegley said Anderlik has been placed on administrative leave and is barred from entering district property or contacting students.

— Mick Zawislak, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026
Despite the ruling, some journalists from all three outlets were barred from entering the White House on Thursday morning – even as Chinese state media outlets were granted entry.

— Kevin Breuninger,Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of barred

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The Democrats wrote in a summary of the allegations that immigrants sleep while restrained with handcuffs, leg irons and belly chains, and even elderly people have been chained for 16 hours a day.

— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
Apple is keeping up by enabling M5 Pro Mac minis to be chained together via Thunderbolt 5 to share their computational resources for larger AI models.

— Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of chained

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