SCATTED Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

scatted

verb

past tense of scat

as in warbled

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Verb

Her distinctive voice has been Widowspeak’s emblem since the band first emerged, warbled like Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval over CB radio.

— Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 10 June 2026

Definition of warbled

Verb

As Shohei Ohtani strode up to the plate Monday, Michael Bublé’s voice crooned over the Dodger Stadium speakers as always.

— Senior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Social media videos of the tribute showed the crowd singing along as Musgraves crooned the 1977 hit.

— Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of crooned

Verb

Try not to squeal like a 5-year-old when the foot-tall sparkler speared into the sundae is lit.

— Lisa Shames, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
The first practical transformer was switched on about 15 miles down the road, in 1886, when William Stanley lit stores and offices lining Great Barrington’s Main Street.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of lit

Verb

After the team’s historic, championship-clinching summer, Thursday’s preseason matchup hummed with energy.

— Christian Allaire, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2026
At a local senior residence center this week, the participants hummed with lindens and then headed into the art room to reflect on paper, using sepia-brown linden ink.

— Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of hummed

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The family traveled around the country preaching and soliciting donations, and when Gortner was 16, his father absconded with what was reported to be $3 million in donations.

— Pat Saperstein, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026
Her former research partner has absconded with her life’s work, presumably to put toward greedy human means of Manifest Destiny.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of absconded

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This was a funhouse reality, in which children were lost and predators roamed, but through which white harts leapt through shafts of sunlight, songbirds trilled, and where honey and berries and acorns might be foraged for free.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
Femme tunes trilled in the background.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2026

Definition of trilled

Verb

Igoe said the suspect vehicle then stopped on Fulton Avenue, where the suspect got out and started pacing back and forth with a knife in his hand in front of his vehicle.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
The suspect got out of the vehicle and began pacing in front of it, authorities said.

— Richard Ramos, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

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