donned

verb

past tense of don
as in dressed
to place on one's person she donned her best gown for the ball

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Recent Examples of donned Kate Middleton and Prince William, Princess Anne and Sir Timothy Laurence, and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester all donned their white tie finery for the Windsor Castle event. — Stephanie Bridger-Linning, Vanity Fair, 25 Oct. 2026 Paired with her chocolate brown booties, Camilla donned a black wool trench coat with button closures fastening the collar in place, layered over what appeared to be a cowl-neck blouse with a floral-esque pattern. — Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026 Turner, for one, donned a utility workwear coat with a quarter-zip sweater, black jeans, and hiker-style boots. — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2026 For their rare public outing, Russell wore a black-and-white ensemble, while Willa donned an all-pink look. — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 19 Oct. 2026 Denver will wear its Orange Crush throwbacks, marking the sixth time the Broncos have donned the uniforms since bringing them back in 2024. — Chantz Martin Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 In the first week of the COVID shutdown, Holmes packed her two hissing black cats, donned an N95 mask and flew to LAX. — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026 Robin Williams wore it as the unorthodox poetry teacher in Dead Poets Society; Donald Sutherland donned his own wide-wale version as the burnout professor in Animal House. — John Vorwald, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2026 Jennifer Coolidge, who played the ambitious and brassy realtor who donned pastel-colored power suits, is back for the second season. — Peter White, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for donned
  1. dressed
  2. rigged
  3. put on
Verb
  • Ben-Gvir, dressed in a white shirt and white kippah, speaks halting English.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
  • That first recreation starts with Fielder and Seyfried’s conversation, cuts to the recreation itself, and continues with Fielder talking to the Seyfried in a makeup chair, getting dressed for the role.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of dressed
Verb
  • Trump said the 2020 election and a local mayoral race in Los Angeles were rigged.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Visual effects supervisor Guillaume Rocheron, who worked on Jordan Peele’s Nope, rigged the LED lighting in the stomach to eventually render as the bioluminescence that then helps illuminate Jay’s environment.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of rigged
Verb
  • Those unwanted jobs range from library boards that decide what books to purchase and put on shelves to school boards that help set education policy to village presidents to township supervisors.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Upon entering the mock prison, the inmates underwent a strip-search and then had to put on loose-fitting smocks with no underwear.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of put on

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“Donned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/donned. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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