LINED Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

lined

verb

past tense of line

as in aligned

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as in surrounded

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Recent Examples of lined Multiple copies of Howl, Kaddish, and assembled collections of complete verse lined (and still line) my bookshelves. — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026 And in the bottom of the seventh, Yoshida led off with a single, Trevor Story walked, Ceddanne Rafaela, pinch-hitting for Marcelo Mayer, lined a ball past the outstretched glove arm of first baseman Keith, but far inside the right-field line for a two-run single. — Gabrielle Starr, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026 Wells lined a ball that landed just fair down the right-field line. — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 Andrew Benintendi lined a fourth-inning sweeper from Ryan Bergert down the right-field line. — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for lined

Verb

That follows two $500,000 ad buys from the business group, which has historically aligned with Republicans, praising incumbent Sens.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026
The top Senate Republican and Democrat-aligned super PACS are spending millions to boost their preferred candidates.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of aligned

Verb

Hybrid pic shot over several years in which a child, Germán, lives isolate in a village, surrounded by adults and elderly people.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026
Blake's mother, Christina Smith, had planned to pick up her son that day but instead arrived to find the neighborhood surrounded by police.

— Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of surrounded

Verb

There are no emotions in it, only our own cold and cruel fears reflected back at us, as with a shot of Cruise standing defiantly in front of a mirror rimmed by antlers.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Taylor hit a cut 9-iron from 151 yards that plopped down a foot from the cup for a par, and Burns' birdie putt to halve the match rimmed out.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of rimmed

Verb

Davis’s letter follows a separate ethics complaint filed by a conservative watchdog group to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics over Slotkin’s University of Chicago remarks, first reported by the Washington Examiner on Tuesday.

— Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 22 Oct. 2026
The income changes will retroactively affect applications filed from April 2026.

— Brittany Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of filed

Verb

Once emplaced, a ground sensor is also fixed to the set location.

— Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
The order affects several thousand engineers, scientists and technicians across every NASA center, and strips away long-standing union rights that were emplaced to protect more than half the agency's workforce.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 30 Aug. 2025

Definition of emplaced

Verb

The road through no man’s land was fenced on either side and cut through a lush green minefield with yellow flowers.

— Ben Taub, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
The Los Angeles Times reports that the plaza will be permanently fenced off, with makeshift structures to be replaced by stainless steel barriers.

— News Desk, Artforum, 5 Oct. 2026