SCRAMBLED Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

scrambled

verb

past tense of scramble

as in climbed

to move (as up or over something) often with the help of the hands in holding or pulling the toddler scrambled up the stairs

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as in disrupted

to undo the proper order or arrangement of scrambled the letters of the word

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Recent Examples of scrambled Around the same time, The Aerial Film Company and The Helicopter Girls were scrambled into the skies of London to capture shots of the city and The Shard. —

Jake Kanter, Deadline, 3 June 2026 For a fun switch up at breakfast, try your oats scrambled. —

Jenavieve Christensen, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2026 Just days earlier, the vote had been abruptly postponed as Republicans scrambled to redraw congressional boundaries in a way that would erase one of the state’s two majority-Black congressional districts and dilute the political influence that many in the congregation had fought for. —

Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026 Instead - after a days-long operation to pump water out of the remote caves bore fruit - the group scrambled their way out. —

Kocha Olarn, CNN Money, 30 May 2026 Romania scrambled F-16s but did not shoot down the drone, instead demanding faster NATO support for anti-drone defenses after calling the strike the country’s worst incident of the war. —

Stephen McGrath, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026 In recent years a handful of specialists in the fields of psychiatry, neuroscience and addiction medicine have begun looking at how ibogaine’s psychoactive properties can reset brains scrambled by trauma and substance abuse. —

Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026 The birds' magnetic compasses only got scrambled on overcast days. —

ABC News, 28 May 2026 Elayyat was hired by San Diego County as a chief of agency operations in February 2020, just days before the pandemic shut down much of the nation and county health officials scrambled to stem the spread of the disease. —

Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2026

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Former Secret Service agent Keith Wojcieszek told me that during his 16 years on the job, people routinely climbed over the 6-foot-6-inch perimeter fence.

— Matt Viser, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
The father of two climbed into the back of a police SUV in Azusa, where his body was found three days later.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026