SMATTERED Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

smattered

verb

past tense of smatter

as in pattered

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Big shot guests popped up in the studio audience, including the actors Bryan Cranston, Paul Rudd, and Ryan Reynolds, who did a few bits and pattered about the host going off air; Colbert moved through the usual jokes about the day’s news.

— David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026
As rain pattered against windows, and trees lining the streets swayed, flurries of urgent texts began ricocheting from one end of the neighborhood to the other, and panic set in as some residents put on their shoes and hurried out the door.

— Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025

Definition of pattered

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Boys trolled the streets bearing sticks, sometimes embedded with nails, both to lift hats from an unsuspecting wearer’s head and to physically intimidate those who resisted.

— Michele Metych Britannica Editors Sep. 4, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026
After his victory, Moskowitz trolled the online influencer Hasan Piker, who was a high-profile booster of Larkin’s campaign.

— Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of trolled

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The Current sputtered out of the World Cup break, gathering two wins, four draws and four losses while Chawinga was out of the lineup.

— PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2026
As the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began flowing, Ramey took a deep breath, sputtered and began snoring.

— MICHAEL GRACZYK, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of sputtered

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Attendees chatted and celebrated another successful season with Silvia Prada behind the DJ booth.

— Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026
During pre-show cocktails in the Grand Tier Bar, Sigourney Weaver chatted with Frances McDormand as Katie Holmes arrived with her artist beau, Jason Bard Yarmosky.

— Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of chatted

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Rebecca Noble/Reuters Hiring grew much less than expected in September as a monthslong surge of inflation weighed on shoppers and rattled bond markets, according to the federal government's monthly jobs report.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
More swings in the bond market rattled stock markets around the world on Thursday.

— Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of rattled

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