STOPPERED Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

stoppered

verb

past tense of stopper

as in corked

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as in sealed

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The administration of antibiotics would trigger a second pathogen that had been occluded inside the first.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
Instead, the missing silver may have been right there, in the sun all along, simply occluded from astronomers' view by tricks of physics.

— Rahul Rao, Space.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of occluded

Verb

If plugged pores or excess keratin is the bigger issue, gentle exfoliators such as lactic or salicylic acid can loosen excess dead skin and keratin.

— Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 19 Sep. 2026
The worker told investigators that a drain valve had been plugged since last year and never closed completely.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of plugged

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His father, Jeff Cebula, said his son was looking at fish in a creek when a beaver latched onto his chest.

— Ashley Paul, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
And a lot of people latched onto her as this avatar of this particular viewpoint of keeping women's sports exclusively for cisgender women.

— Sam Fragoso, NPR, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of latched

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The Democrats wrote in a summary of the allegations that immigrants sleep while restrained with handcuffs, leg irons and belly chains, and even elderly people have been chained for 16 hours a day.

— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
Apple is keeping up by enabling M5 Pro Mac minis to be chained together via Thunderbolt 5 to share their computational resources for larger AI models.

— Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of chained

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