LEAVENED Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

leavened

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past tense of leaven

as in enlivened

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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
Pete Crow-Armstrong then enlivened the dugout in the ninth with a nifty headfirst slide and swim move to avoid the tag as the Pirates played the infield in.

— Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026

Definition of enlivened

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The soup’s tomato juice base is infused with cocktail sauce ingredients, including horseradish, lemon and Worcestershire sauce.

— Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
This infused all aspects of monastic life—prayers, of course, but meals, work, sleep, and conversations as well.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026

Definition of infused

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So lead designer Heather Menegat imbued a ground-up Boulder, Colorado, farmhouse with ageless, rugged warmth.

— Genevieve Walker, Architectural Digest, 11 July 2026
The film appears to mark a departure from Impacciatore’s recent roles that are imbued in her goofy, exuberant persona.

— Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 9 July 2026

Definition of imbued

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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
Some stories can seem animated by opposition, by rivalry and conflict.

— Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 10 July 2026

Definition of animated

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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

Definition of suffused

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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
In our research, participants’ stories were steeped with nostalgia for the days of company picnics, Oscar-style end-of-quarter celebrations, and disco-at-the-office parties.

— Alanah Mitchell, The Conversation, 2 June 2026

Definition of steeped

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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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