shrimped

past tense of shrimp

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shrimped
Verb
  • State police noticed the trailer wasn't sealed and Singh indicated the seal was inside the cab.
    Christina Hall, Freep.com, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The berries are harvested throughout much of the year by hand, with workers climbing the tall palm trees to collect the fruit in bunches.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Then the pulp was harvested, washed, and mixed with sorbitol and cellulose.
    Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 22 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • That’s a 40% discount on a rod that, by the retailer’s own assessment, has barely been fished.
    William Jones, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Many researchers were convinced that the group must also be unfaithful and fished around to find the relationship in Birman’s approach or Moody’s method.
    Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 24 July 2026
Verb
  • Each flower must be picked and carefully dissected to remove three tiny red threads, known as stigmas.
    Callie Zanandrie, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Kreeger and Fernandez Rundle picked through hundreds of dresses, shoes, T-shirts and designer jeans.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The company reaped about $900 million with its initial public offering.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • But the programs that have stuck to the Southland have reaped the benefits.
    Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Directed by Na Hong-Jin and starring Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Jung Ho-yeon, Michael Fassbender, and Alicia Vikander, the alien-encounter feature has accumulated $35 million from 4,518,395 admissions.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Bregman has accumulated more than 5,000 at-bats across his major-league career, and none of those moments happened during a rebuilding period.
    Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • An Israeli military source told CNN the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had gathered intelligence on Turkey’s plans to deploy personnel, drones and air-defense systems at the site.
    Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The 33% approval the president gathered also tied his worst approval rating during his first term in office.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • In the latest survey from the University of New Hampshire, Manzur garnered 34% to Pappas’s 47%.
    Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Her cycle of resurrections, the highs and lows, didn’t seem to change her much over the years, even as the highs garnered her over half a billion dollars.
    Shima Oliaee, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
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“Shrimped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrimped. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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