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
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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
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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  • 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
Verb
  • 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
Definition of inoculated
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“Leavened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leavened. Accessed 19 Jul. 2026.

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