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sparred

verb

past tense of spar
as in boxed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sparred
  1. boxed
  2. slugged
  3. punched
  4. buffeted
  5. hit
  6. bashed
  7. brawled
  8. battered
Verb
  • Parton brought her cooking skills to the grocery aisle in 2022 with her Duncan Hines boxed baking mixes.
    — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
  • But, practically speaking, none of it is imaginable or executable without digital technologies that are fundamentally black-boxed, inscrutable to individual cops on the beat and institutional decision-makers alike.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of boxed
Verb
  • Jeremy Peña homered in his first two at-bats and Yordan Alvarez slugged his 39th home run to lead the Houston Astros to a 4-2 win over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Similarly, most current major leaguers were children or weren’t born when Mike Piazza slugged that memorable home run at Shea Stadium 10 days after the attacks.
    — Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of slugged
Verb
  • One punched him in the face, and another stabbed him once in the buttocks, police said.
    — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2026
  • After the Giants punched their ticket by sweeping two games from the Ports, Haines confirmed that Flora would take the ball one more time in next week’s best-of-3 series against Lake Elsinore.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of punched
Verb
  • For now, the European truck market is relatively secure, but the broader European automotive market is being buffeted by Chinese competition.
    — Sam Forsdick, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2026
  • London — Yet another contingency plan for the global oil market – buffeted by more than six months of war between the United States and Iran – has come under serious threat.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of buffeted
Verb
  • The helicopter, which was used by NBC and Telemundo, crashed about two hours after police say Rios drove her 2004 Ford Expedition the wrong way down a busy avenue, ran a red light and struck a vehicle before hitting the bus.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Police say Rios drove her 2004 Ford Expedition the wrong way down a busy avenue, ran a red light, and struck another vehicle before hitting the Metro bus.
    — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of hit
Verb
  • That’s the first time that has happened since her husband Glenn (Steven Yeun) had his brains bashed in by Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Worrell’s frequent foe, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, bashed her over Rundell’s past on social media, suggesting dropped cases previously left the teen free to commit murder this summer.
    — Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of bashed
Verb
  • The teams brawled on the outside for minutes, but the chants started up again.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Another worker described the chaos as well over a dozen teens brawled inside the diner.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 17 June 2026
Definition of brawled
Verb
  • Newcastle were not only beaten, but they were also bullied and battered into submission — physically overpowered and outplayed in every facet.
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Close in, a comet is battered by the torrent of the sun's solar wind, which pushes the comet's material away into a distinctive tail.
    — Rahul Rao, Space.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of battered
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“Sparred.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sparred. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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