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

Three women inmates escaped a transport van in the midst of the fire chaos, and Mickey needed her troops to find the missing convicts instead of helping with the fire.

— Megan Vick, Variety, 7 Nov. 2026
Stayner first became notable as the older brother of Steven Stayner, who escaped a 1972 kidnapping in 1980.

— Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of escaped

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

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The nearly century-old prison, its dank corridors lit by flickering fluorescent tubes, is now closing, and its more than 1,000 inmates are moving to a new penitentiary complex.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2026
The dispute began before Heritage Village Park opened in 2022, when residents of the adjacent Heritage El Dorado Hills retirement community objected to lighted sports courts, traffic and noise near their homes.

— Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of lit

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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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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

The game got out of reach in that period, with the Nets eventually cruising to a 145-111 road win over the Pelicans at Smoothie King Center.

— Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 12 Nov. 2026
In the wake of 2024, with this sense of total defeat, a few people just got out there, and AOC was one of them.

— Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of got out

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