PAROLED Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in released

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verb

past tense of parole

as in rescued

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Recent Examples of paroled

Verb

Despite a recent spate of violent offenders being paroled at relatively high rates under the Mattis decision, the overall parole rate has shrunk from 65% to 57% under Chair Angelo Gomez. — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 22 Apr. 2026 He was paroled in January 2010 and discharged from parole in July 2012. — Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for paroled

Adjective

In fact, the vast majority of freed people remained in the South.

— Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 16 June 2026
Well, the Thirteenth Amendment left the country with 4 million freed slaves, undefined.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026

Definition of freed

Verb

In Biden’s case, South Carolinians rescued his seemingly moribund campaign.

— W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2026
Multiple people have been rescued after a seaplane carrying 11 people made an emergency landing Thursday off the coast of Washington, prompting a multi-agency search and rescue operation.

— Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 24 July 2026

Definition of rescued

Adjective

And there were already many claims being made for the nearly $4 billion worth of liberated slaves.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
Hungary’s new minister of culture, Zoltán Tarr, shares his vision for fostering freedom of expression in a liberated local art scene.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 14 May 2026

Definition of liberated

Verb

After a nearby hospital is hacked and ransomed, the higher-ups decide to defend its system by shutting it down, which means business must be conducted in the old-fashioned, paper-and-clipboards way.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Her cousins and aunt were ransomed and released in Lebanon; Caroline was taken separately, chosen by an ISIS emir, and has never been found.

— Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025

Definition of ransomed

Verb

In 1775, his first enslaver sold him to the commander of Framingham's Minute Men, who emancipated him, and Salem went on to fight at Lexington and Concord.

— Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 4 July 2026
The long shadow of the occupation Twenty-three years after George Bush and Tony Blair resolved that Iraqis were to be emancipated, the country remains captive to a masquerade of power.

— Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026

Definition of emancipated

Verb

Despite arriving in February 1992 with no coaching experience whatsoever, Keegan saved Newcastle from the precipice.

— James Pearce, New York Times, 22 July 2026
Firefighters battled the blaze inside the village and saved all the local homes, even if two barns went up in flames, Moreno said, adding that the firefighters should receive as much admiration as the soccer players who won the World Cup on Sunday.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026

Definition of saved

Verb

The outbreak, which city authorities have linked to a series of cooling towers in Upper East Side buildings, has hospitalized 60 people, 53 of whom were discharged while seven remained in the hospital, according to authorities.

— Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026
Eight people are still hospitalized and 56 others have spent time in but been discharged from hospitals in the Upper East Side outbreak, officials said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 July 2026

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