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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Luhansk, this terra incognita of the independent Ukraine, is described in almost carnivalesque terms, but this is a carnival infused with absurdity and even cruelty.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026
This year, venture capital firms Stripes and Imaginary Ventures infused the brand with $18 million.

— Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of infused

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While Creed-Miles and Edgar-Jones’s respective Los Angeles premiere looks embraced runway pieces from separate decades, what unified their sister style choices was the romantic energy imbued into each design.

— Julia Teti, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
Built to echo the Andean cross, the property is also deeply imbued in the culture and mystique of the area – to that end, Shamans are on call for private tours.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

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Nickelodeon may have canceled its stop-motion animated The Tiny Chef Show last year, but Chef hasn’t hung up his tiny knives.

— Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
After a competition win, Fujino remarks that her dream was to see her manga animated, a comment that temporarily splits the two central characters.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 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

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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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