FEATHERED Synonyms: 95 Similar and Opposite Words

feathered

verb

Definition of feathered

past tense of feather

as in pulled

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Abu Dhabi’s Etihad is taking the same muscular approach, adding more than 20 aircraft and new routes to Europe, Africa, and China as other long-haul carriers have pulled back.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Later, detectives produced three male DNA profiles from evidence collected at the scene, including some pulled from beer bottles and cigarette butts, but none were ever matched to anyone until recently.

— Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of pulled

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The house also embroidered a luxury train carriage's interior and cushions for the 2026 Brit Awards.

— Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026
The Murray Hill man wears a fleece vest embroidered with his employer’s logo (the bank, the fund) ten months out of the year.

— Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of embroidered

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Another is challah, bread that is usually braided and typically eaten on ceremonial occasions, which is served as a round loaf at Rosh Hashanah.

— Kathryn Gregory, Louisville Courier Journal, 7 Sep. 2026
And weighty ropes—the sort that might be used to moor a boat—are braided with chains and arranged on the ground in the form of a curving river.

— Carolina A. Miranda, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of braided

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In the bathroom, there are shuttered windows wreathed with Como silk and a luscious roll-top bath.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
On a hill wreathed in mist above the dark sea that runs between New Zealand’s North and South Islands, Ward and others crossed rugged farmland late on Tuesday night, carrying seven crates in silence by dim red torchlight.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026

Definition of wreathed

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One of his biggest projects after returning to public life was a series of portraits of the Statue of Liberty, painted at the White House at the invitation of first lady Nancy Reagan in 1981.

— BETH J. HARPAZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026
However, Lizzie painted a different picture of their relationship when questioned by police in the wake of the murders.

— Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of painted

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