SWITCHED Synonyms: 176 Similar and Opposite Words

switched

verb

past tense of switch

as in swapped

to give up (something) and take something else in return switched the real grapes for fake ones switched the day of his flight from Thursday to Friday

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as in flicked

to move from side to side or up and down with quick jerky motions cows lazily switching their tails and chewing their cud

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as in whipped

to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible switched the stagecoach horses to control the direction they took

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as in reversed

to change (as an opinion) to the contrary a politician who has switched his position on a number of issues

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as in licked

to strike repeatedly the loose rigging switched the mast during the storm

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Recent Examples of switched Originally halogen or fluorescent, 90% of their lighting has been switched to LED—decreasing heat emissions from 80% to 10% in the process. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2026 That switched closer to the election, when Republicans became concerned that Democrats would lock up the top two spots. —

Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 9 June 2026 Less than two minutes later, with Towns switched onto him, Castle found Wembanyama for a long lob, resulting in an easy lay-up. —

Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 9 June 2026 Keith McLean, buildings director for the school district, compared the situation to Flint after Aqua Illinois, the area’s main water supplier, switched from groundwater wells to the Kankakee River. —

Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026 Firefighters then switched into attacking the blaze and adjusted their on-scene resources to work on containment, Clay said. —

Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 8 June 2026 Payload was Amazon’s two test Project Kuiper satellites that were set to fly on ULA’s first Vulcan Centaur rocket, but switched to one of the nine Atlas rockets Amazon had previously purchased from ULA as Vulcan had been delayed to no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2023. —

Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2026 The pilots planned to land on runway 4R, then were switched to 22L, then finally to 29 where the incident occurred, the NTSB said. —

Sam Sweeney, ABC News, 4 June 2026 Another 11 percent switched from an ad-free subscription to the cheaper one that includes commercials, per Antenna. —

Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2026

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The mogul first gained the title in 2021 but has swapped it with billionaires like Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, and Bernard Arnault in the years since.

— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 June 2026
Amodei, meanwhile, has not held back in his criticism of Flippo, who swapped races from the 4th Congressional District in Southern Nevada after the congressman’s retirement.

— Max Grinstein, The Washington Examiner, 11 June 2026