SNOWS Synonyms: 127 Similar and Opposite Words

snows

verb

present tense third-person singular of snow

as in fools

to cause to believe what is untrue easily snowed by her glib talk

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as in bleaches

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 snows This is fairly normal for March and April snows there, Hurley says. — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026 Immaculate snows that fall over a table go on falling anecdotally forever. — Hua Xi, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025

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Sebastian Galeano fools the Lake Mary defense by carrying it himself and scampers 40 yards for the touchdown.

— Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026
Runway, Pika, and a dozen others can produce footage that fools the eye on first watch.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026

Definition of fools

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Martin uses a color extractor to remove existing dye, then bleaches the hair (except the gray roots) to get it as light as possible.

— Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 25 Sep. 2026
His owner, Hannah Gleason from Oklahoma, told Newsweek that the merle gene isn’t a coloring gene rather than a gene that bleaches the fur and causes lack of pigmentation which can lead to birth defects, blindness, deafness, or sometimes all three.

— Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025

Definition of bleaches

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Community organizations spent decades cultivating wealthy baby boomer donors, and so that connection fades with each generation removed from the original donors.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2026
Its manganese spins continue fluctuating in preferred directions after long-range magnetic order fades.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of fades

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The complaint also claims that the image deceives customers into thinking Lipa has endorsed the product and dilutes her brand identity.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 11 May 2026
The fragmentary Ni 12501 tablet from the Early Dynastic III period of Mesopotamia breaks off when Fox deceives the inhabitants of the netherworld in his quest to retrieve the storm god Ishkur.

— Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025

Definition of deceives

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At this, Newsom brightens, mentioning a framed photograph at home, a black-and-white image of Kennedy kneeling in front of a young boy next to an old beat-up car.

— Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026
Hydrogen peroxide brightens whites and removes stains without damaging fabric like bleach.

— Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2026

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