CHANGED Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

changed

verb

past tense of change

as in modified

to make different in some way my wife has changed the look of our living room more times than we care to remember

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as in shifted

to pass from one form, state, or level to another the weather in New England is constantly changing

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as in exchanged

to give up (something) and take something else in return would you mind changing your seat so my friends can sit together?

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Recent Examples of changed In hindsight, the Chicks—the Dixie Chicks until the band changed its name in 2020—were practically engineered to stand in opposition to the country establishment. — Shaad D’souza, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2026 DuVernay makes history organic by capturing how the very texture of people’s lives was changed by the law. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026 Earlier this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences changed its rules and no longer requires nominees to be submitted by a country. — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2026 That changed in 2019, when her agent, on a whim, sent her Ahn’s screenplay, then titled Audrey Park. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2026 The Hurricane Warning from east of the Alabama/Florida line to the Bay/Gulf County Line, FL has been changed to a Tropical Storm Warning. — Miami Herald Hurricane Bot, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026 Our values haven’t changed over 80 years and will never change. — Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026 The researchers placed them inside YbSb₂ and watched how their spins changed as the material crossed into its superconducting state. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026 Tennessee changed its lethal injection protocol in 2024, abandoning its previous three-drug method in favor of the single drug pentobarbital, which slows down a person’s nervous system. — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2026

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Verb

Agents also learned Uribe had sold another rifle modified to operate as a machine gun in August 2022.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Officials said the victim’s e-bike had been illegally modified to go faster than initially designed.

— Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of modified

Verb

In the years that followed, American comedy’s center of gravity, both in hip performance venues and onscreen, shifted to improvisation.

— Dan Brooks, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
Once the Mizzou running game got consistent positive yards in the second half, the Tigers’ play-calling shifted to feature that aspect of their offense.

— PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of shifted

Verb

No payment is requested or exchanged at any point during the selection, evaluation or ranking process; inclusion is based solely on the methodology.

— Kelli Grant, CFP®,Riley de León, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Fresh off the heels of Thom Browne’s New York Fashion Week presentation, where models and dancers embodied bugs and butterflies, the designer exchanged emails with Tyler Matthew Oyer about his creative process.

— Tyler Matthew Oyer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of exchanged

Verb

The change comes as ongoing roadwork on Penn Avenue has already altered traffic flow in the area and is one-way.

— CBS News, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
Further complicating matters, the apparent arrow held by the figure on the left was likely altered during a 19th-century restoration of the tapestry.

— Alicja Zelazko, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of altered

Verb

Kahn also pointed to companies that dropped agents into existing workflows, or swapped an employee for one.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
The watch, released to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Overseas, comes with three interchangeable straps that can be swapped without tools.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of swapped

Verb

Inside, the kitchen was spacious and new, with lots of counter space and an island, and the bathrooms were remodeled.

— Shannon Sims, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026
In 2001, the architecture critic and scholar Robin Middleton bought a former tile factory on East 13th Street and remodeled it to match his unconventional life.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of remodeled

Verb

The number of servers running the software has fluctuated from 19,000 in the week following the patch to about 12,000 in the weeks following that.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 30 Sep. 2026
Since then, the results have fluctuated between middling and downright putrid, and entering this year, Aranda was said to be on his last leg.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026