snowed

verb

past tense of snow
1
as in tricked
to cause to believe what is untrue easily snowed by her glib talk

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2
as in bleached
to make white or whiter by removing color the years had snowed his hair to a silvery white, making it difficult at first to recognize her old high school crush

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Recent Examples of snowed There are songs for each segment, which include Goofy cleaning up, a dark turn with Daisy in a power outage and snowed-in Pluto. — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2026 The insulation from the ceiling snowed down onto virtually every part of the building — exhibits, artifacts, galleries and display cases. — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2026 The season will be set in November, so maybe there’s a surprise snowstorm and everyone gets snowed in. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026 Opening day at County Stadium was snowed out, after Milwaukee was hit with more than 13 inches of snow. — Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snowed
  1. tricked
  2. bleached
  3. fooled
  4. faded
  5. deceived
  6. brightened
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  • Aguilar alleged that officers tricked her mother, who only speaks Spanish, into letting them in without giving her a chance to secure Kush.
    — Amy Corral, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • In 2022, internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare also said that the use of security keys had foiled a phishing attempt that tricked a few employees into entering their passwords into a fake login form.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of tricked
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  • Eco effort While over 80% of the reefs around the resort were bleached following the dramatic temperature rises of El Nino in 2016, the resort is throwing everything at its coral nursery and the green shoots are showing.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The large works seem to be on the verge of becoming ghostly, bleached by the same relentless Florida sunlight that makes Miami Beach so visually seductive.
    — Erin Parish, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of bleached
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  • And we will be fooled into believing that’s the best, or worst, thing comedy has to offer.
    — Christina Catherine Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The balancing act Don’t be fooled by the lack of a back-up plan.
    — Tyler Carmona, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of fooled
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  • Memories may have faded, or digital evidence could have been lost or deleted.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2026
  • The Chicago White Sox faded from the postseason with hardly any offense.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of faded
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  • Some veterans say recruiters deceived them and Haitian authorities tortured them; their families call them scapegoats.
    — Astrid Suárez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Some of the Colombians have long maintained that they were deceived about the mission and arrived at the home after Moïse had already been killed.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of deceived
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  • The green is equally luscious in texture, made with chicken thigh and skin, but intensely herbaceous, brightened with parsley, cilantro, poblano and jalapeño.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
  • In its latest incarnation, designed by the firm S9, the curtain wall has darkened and the electronic billboards brightened, so that the tower resembles a TV mount, more apparatus than architecture.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of brightened

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“Snowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snowed. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.

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