leavened

verb

past tense of leaven
as in enlivened

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leavened
  1. enlivened
  2. infused
  3. imbued
  4. animated
  5. suffused
  6. steeped
  7. inoculated
Verb
  • The play’s romantic and military adventures are enlivened by the two squabbling supporting character, Beatrice and Benedick.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of enlivened
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  • It’s also infused with ingredients like vitamin E and paracress, which nourish your skin.
    — Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 28 July 2026
  • They’re infused with the brand’s low molecular collagen, which helps boost skin elasticity; that’s noteworthy since most collagen molecules are too large to penetrate skin.
    — Deanna Pai, Vogue, 27 July 2026
Definition of infused
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  • Not just any pop-up book, however, but the world’s largest — one imbued with an artist’s connection to the library, and one that celebrates the library itself amid its 100th anniversary.
    — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 24 July 2026
  • What the museum surely didn’t expect was for the trophy to arrive freshly imbued with New York history.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of imbued
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  • Prosecutors say Matar was animated partly by comments that a former Hezbollah leader, the late Hassan Nasrallah, made about Rushdie and the fatwa in 2006.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
  • But the actor is at his most manically animated with the sorceress Circe (Samantha Morton), who has food that Eurylochus’s starving crewmates need.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 July 2026
Definition of animated
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  • The threat is still there, suffused into the air like a memory, but for a time the choice between love and survival no longer feels mutually exclusive to Nino and Yasmina.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of suffused
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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
Definition of steeped
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  • Watching that process has inoculated me against my misanthropy.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 July 2026
  • It has been inoculated by a parasitic braconid wasp that laid its eggs underneath the skin of the hornworm.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 19 June 2026
Definition of inoculated
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