LEAVENED Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

leavened

verb

past tense of leaven

as in enlivened

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Middleton’s latest fall look enlivened her royal wardrobe with a distinct use of color.

— Julia Teti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
The book is enlivened by Andersen’s gift for satire, which plays up the comic potential of ideological extremes.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of enlivened

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Priced at $23 for a 16-ounce bottle, The Wash is a full body, sulfate-free cleanser, infused with aloe vera, sunflower seed oil, glycerin and colloidal oatmeal.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2026
It’s infused with peppermint and cedar essential oils, and each bottle has enough of the solution to last for up to 2,000 sprays.

— Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of infused

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The Hartford dates mark the opening two nights of Rodrigo’s new tour—expect moments of major fashion history, imbued with Rodrigo’s own personal storytelling, to continue unfurling.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2026
Krieps can’t help but respect Murphy for the unshackled nature with which his female characters are imbued.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of imbued

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Tech Talks — animated by top hairdressers — are another such initiative.

— Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
Cage previously starred in the first two Ghost Rider movies, a franchise now being revived by Ryan Gosling, and as Spider-Noir in both the animated Beyond the Spider-Verse films and the live-action series Prime Video just canceled.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026

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This is a book suffused with beauty, but climate emergency is its undercurrent.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2026
After setting her wildly popular debut The Tiger's Wife in a Balkans suffused with myth and magic, the author turned in subsequent books to the Old West and a city redolent of New York.

— Colin Dwyer, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of suffused

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About 100,000 people in the United States are inoculated with the rabies vaccine each year after being exposed, the CDC said.

— The Sacramento Bee staff, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
When we are inoculated against a disease, we are exposed to a small, harmless dose of something dangerous.

— Rebecca Stafford, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of inoculated

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