BATTENED (DOWN) Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

battened (down)

verb

past tense of batten (down)

as in locked

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Keep Experimenting, Smartly To be clear, none of this is an argument for shutting AI experimentation down.

— Adrian Carr, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Earlier this week, Rhodium Group’s Noah Barkin said Europe was considering measures to shut China out of the bloc.

— Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of shut

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Instead, metal strips showing the current registration were fastened atop the existing plate.

— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
The splintered timbers, fastened together by rusted iron, emerged near an area where remains believed to be from the Warren Sawyer, a wooden schooner lost in 1884, have been found before.

— CBS News, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of fastened

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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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Cornell has said the process led to a range of sanctions, including suspensions and expulsions, and the Chi Phi chapter was closed and remains barred from campus.

— Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
Oman Air had barred him from flying over concerns about extremist views, but FlyDubai later hired him; questions remain about how thoroughly the airline and Israeli security officials vetted him.

— Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 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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At a small celebration dinner in San Francisco after the deal closed, Basu Trivedi was stunned by their choice of lodging.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
For Karena Kong, a customer at Nen Head Spa in San Francisco, the length and focus of the service closed the deal.

— Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026

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