LEAVENED Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

leavened

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past tense of leaven

as in enlivened

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This retreat on Wisconsin‘s Oconomowoc Lake embraces those familiar cues but reimagines them on a much grander scale, pairing traditional lake-house materials with thoughtfully layered interiors enlivened by vibrant color and bold pattern.

— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 13 July 2026
Though only half the length of their 2025 breakthrough debut, the New York quartet’s second album is dense with ideas and enlivened by purpose.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 11 June 2026

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This filter-like foundation also has a blurring effect that’s hydrating and brightening, leaving my skin looking fresh and plump—which is thanks to the niacinamide, hyaluronic acid, and peptides infused into it.

— Essence Wiley, InStyle, 14 July 2026
An all–Native New Mexican leadership team infused the seasonal restaurant with ingredients all grown in the Rio Grande basin.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2026

Definition of infused

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Fortunately our lead dog was imbued with a caution which is not always found in his kind.

— Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 15 July 2026
Since the first Interview episodes, Jones and Hannah Moscovitch, both playwrights, have imbued the series with a kind of meta-argument for the power of art in times of tremendous turmoil.

— Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026

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The royal siblings were animated fans in the stands and erupted in cheers when Carlos Alcaraz of Spain clinched the win.

— Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 12 July 2026
For all its proximity to the city, the estate feels deeply removed, animated by eagles nesting in the trees, ospreys hovering above the water and deer grazing through the grounds.

— Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

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Good binoculars will reveal a score of stars in this little group, while long-exposure observatory photographs show about 1000 in the area — all suffused in great clouds and streamers of nebulous light.

— Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 July 2026
Lyrically, these 10 songs are suffused with a bittersweet feeling of nostalgia for early adulthood, as heard on the album’s title track.

— Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2026

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Grief expertise is attributed to those people that are really deeply steeped and trained in grief, so those might be therapists, those might be thanatologists who study death, and dying, and bereavement.

— Mikaela Cohen, Fortune, 14 July 2026
In 15,000 square feet over two stories, the emporium will introduce diners to culinary highlights from throughout Asia, much like how its mall neighbor, Eataly, has steeped diners in the regional specialties of Italy.

— Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 23 June 2026

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Inoculation involved taking pus from a pock of someone with a not-very-severe case of smallpox, making a cut in the arm of the person to be inoculated, and rubbing the pus into the cut.

— Diana Gitig, ArsTechnica, 30 May 2026
In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner successfully inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026

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