emoted

verb

past tense of emote
as in fawned
to express emotion in a very dramatic or obvious way He stood on the stage, emoting and gesturing wildly.

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Recent Examples of emoted The look in Heat games often is significantly different than the look projected while playing for the Serbian national team, when confidence consistently is emoted. — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emoted
  1. fawned
  2. drooled
  3. fussed
  4. enthused
  5. gushed
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  • His gimmick was hiring artists to do the cleaning, which brought in new clients every time the press fawned over the poor Cindarellas.
    — Jesse Armas, Curbed, 16 June 2026
  • The comments section fawned over the clip.
    — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
Definition of fawned
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  • Who had broken a wrist on the back-yard flagstones, drooled cherry medicine down her sleeping face on the car ride back from the hospital.
    — Emma Cline, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
  • For Valentine's Day 2026, the retailer released a confetti glass icon candle that shoppers drooled over.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2026
Definition of drooled
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  • The crime went unsolved for many years, prompting Mason to start making this movie in the early 2000s, and the immediate conclusion to jump to is that the LAPD maybe wasn’t too fussed about it.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Dunst doesn’t get fussed about that sort of thing.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 27 Nov. 2025
Definition of fussed
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  • In an exclusive interview with WWD, the businessman enthused about the future of the Italian e-tailer and its current CEO.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 July 2026
  • Shortly after the nurses’ strike, the CEO of the NYC Health and Hospitals, the largest city healthcare system in the US, openly enthused about replacing radiologists with AI.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 15 July 2026
Definition of enthused
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  • Newlywed Travis Kelce gushed about his Madison Square Garden wedding to Taylor Swift while gearing up for his 14th season in the NFL.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • This past March, McGraw’s daughter Audrey performed at Red Rock Casino in Las Vegas and gushed about how much her parents mean to her, just hours after her dad was named a 2026 inductee of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of gushed

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