FURBELOWED Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

furbelowed

verb

past tense of furbelow

as in embroidered

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And Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wears dresses and blouses embroidered by Indigenous artisans to honor their textile traditions.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
Likely embroidered in Canterbury, it is considered a significant icon of British identity and left England sometime before the late fifteenth century.

— News Desk, Artforum, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of embroidered

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Her glossy hair, braided into two plaits, hung down over her shoulders in a style unusual for young girls these days.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Rebecca wore her simple weekday covering over her hair, which had been pulled back in a ponytail, then braided and pinned up on the back of her head.

— Rachel Yoder, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026

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Until that moment, breast cancer had not figured prominently in Di Cenzo’s understanding of her health.

— Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 10 Aug. 2026
Jim Cramer figured this may be the case on the morning of July 30, as reports emerged that Situational Awareness was facing a margin call and its brokers were seeking buyers for its public stock portfolio.

— Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of figured

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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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As Ryan prepared to return to the United States, he and three members of the press were shot and killed, prompting Jones to enact a mass suicide plan involving drinking a fruit drink laced with poison and sedatives.

— Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026
Along with all his other memories of his son, that memory was now laced with grief.

— Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of laced

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At the Whitney Biennial, Carmen de Monteflores’s long-unseen shaped canvases of colorful overlapping figures hung alongside her daughter Andrea Fraser’s wax sculptures of sleeping toddlers.

— Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026
Law enforcement and other first responders saluted as the ambulance went by, and a large United States flag hung over the area.

— Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of hung

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The researchers recovered usable DNA from 95 historical specimens spanning nearly 140 years and compared them with modern samples collected in the 2000s, and the results painted a sobering picture.

— Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
The Miami-Dade State’s Attorney’s Office painted Obumseli as a victim of domestic violence in the case against Clenney, citing the couple’s allegedly combative relationship.

— Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2026

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