HALTERED Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

haltered

verb

past tense of halter

as in roped

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Nantz tried to knock the ball from Watt, but hit his wrist hard on the football and immediately grabbed his hand.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
The former center grabbed headlines in March for commenting on a Rangers loss that coincided with the team’s Pride Night celebration.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of grabbed

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Since no party has ever captured a parliamentary majority on its own, party leaders must agree to come together in a governing coalition.

— Giovanna Dell'Orto, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
Along the way, the former leaders of the AI trade, captured in the iShares AI Innovation ETF, have collapsed by 35 percentage points relative to the equal-weight S&P 500, then regained half the loss, then gave up most of that bounce.

— Michael Santoli, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of captured

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Some members of the Whaleback pack are collared, providing a good starting point.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
The video, from a traffic stop of a white Volvo semi in a rural area on May 18, shows officers pulling the vehicle over before the driver descends from the cab and attempts to run away, crossing a set of train tracks before being quickly collared by law enforcement.

— Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2026

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Emil Heineman floated a wrist shot from the blue line, and Eklund corralled the loose puck and buried it for his second goal of the season.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
But experts working with Gentle Giants warned that strategy might not work because of Outlaw's history of being corralled in the wild.

— CBS Baltimore, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

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Barca has netted 11 goals in two games with free-scoring winger Caroline Graham Hansen leading the competition with three goals.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026
Sixteen of the defendants were either ordered to serve probation or pay fines, none of which exceeded three years or netted the government more than $3,000 from a single conviction.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of netted

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This year, heavensouls dropped westside trapped, a showcase of plundersymphonic finesse and a tribute to Nigerian beats.

— Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
Rae, trapped in a ghetto in Novogrudok, watched the Nazis murder her mother and one of her sisters.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

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