CORKED Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

corked

verb

Definition of corked

past tense of cork

as in stoppered

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occluded

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The administration of antibiotics would trigger a second pathogen that had been occluded inside the first.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
Instead, the missing silver may have been right there, in the sun all along, simply occluded from astronomers' view by tricks of physics.

— Rahul Rao, Space.com, 23 July 2026

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