SPLICED Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

spliced

verb

past tense of splice

as in compounded

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These errors of commission are compounded by errors of omission.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026
Skeptics point out that technological progress has always compounded.

— Harry Booth, Time, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of compounded

Verb

Alicent, not at all her friend in the book, is chained up and not sent off on some silly assassination attempt to kill her son, Aemond.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Most recently, in May 2026, Cal/OSHA issued the company six citations, following an incident during a fire in January 2026 when two workers were reportedly found locked inside a cold storage room that had been chained from the outside.

— Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026

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In Ecuador, local criminal gangs allied with Colombian and Mexican cartels manage the routes and ship the narcotics, 80% of which originate in Colombia and the rest in Peru.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
Ecuador National Police via AP In Ecuador, local criminal gangs allied with Colombian and Mexican cartels manage the routes and ship the narcotics, 80% of which originate in Colombia and the rest in Peru.

— CBS News, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of allied

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Shuttle missions deployed and serviced satellites, launched the Hubble Space Telescope, assembled much of the International Space Station, and flew 135 missions over three decades.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026
That mind is a model, an enormous statistical object assembled by feeding it a quantity of text and images nobody has ever fully itemized.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of assembled

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That ambiguity immediately hooked Hades Films after Hertzberg and Zappa saw Nybroe and King’s proof of concept.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026
Some more images show Kidman, Bullock, 62, King, 26, and Williams, 29, wearing flowing gowns while hooked onto wires, seemingly filming a scene that involves flying, in front of a blue screen.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of hooked

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Before getting hitched to Greenstein, Porizkova was married to musician Ric Ocasek.

— Hannah Malach, InStyle, 17 July 2026
But when her big bro Sherlock (Henry Cavill) goes missing during the festivities, Enola pauses getting hitched to find him and also unearth a military cover-up.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 July 2026

Definition of hitched

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The sterile male flies mated with fertile female flies, but the interactions didn’t produce offspring, decreasing the overall fly population.

— Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
That engine is mated to a 4-speed semi-automatic transmission and a centrifugal clutch (also like Honda's), topping out at 43 mph (70 km/h).

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 July 2026

Definition of mated

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Chanterelle mushrooms grow individually, but are often clustered together in mossy forests with lots of conifer trees and near birch and oak trees in more mountainous regions.

— Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 6 Aug. 2026
And a comprehensive 2024 study in the journal Cell looked at samples from a wet market in Wuhan, finding that those that tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus clustered around a stall where live animals were sold.

— Eric McDaniel, NPR, 6 Aug. 2026

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