WELTERED Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

weltered

verb

past tense of welter

as in shuffled

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Findings of no effect tend to either be shuffled off to low-profile journals or left behind as unpublished lab lore.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026
It’s been more than a year since Ozzy Osbourne shuffled off this mortal coil.

— Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of shuffled

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When that reboot faltered, climaxing in a nightmarish season-14 finale, RHONY got another, softer reboot in the form of all but three cast members being fired.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2026
Initially, local and state leaders considered a relocation plan for some homes and businesses that would get people out of harm’s way, but the project faltered.

— Cengiz Yar, ProPublica, 3 Nov. 2026

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Bryan’s previous records have wallowed in the recent past; Young Manhood uses it like a piston into the future.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2026
Other movies would have made a religious ideal of the suffering mother, attempted to proselytize its audiences, or wallowed in the melodramatic urge for a father figure.

— Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of wallowed

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With tweezers, the scientists gently pulled the strand of silk from the spider’s spinnerets — the abdominal spigots that fibers emerge from — and reeled it in by winding it around a vial with a spinning motor.

— Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2026
The ballroom reeled from Ballas’ brutality, but it wasn’t unilaterally applied.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of reeled

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The insurrection drew immediate and obvious parallels to the United States, which, during much of the past decade, has lurched alongside Brazil through a strange hall of mirrors.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
And there was a frenzy as one man, grimacing and sweating, lurched along pulling a truck with a rope.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of lurched

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At Hill Street bar, close to the downtown criminal courthouse where McKinney has built his career, supporters swayed to smooth jazz and Top 40 radio hits, nursing cocktails and betraying no reaction to the dismal early returns.

— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
In his campaign, Piper highlighted affordability and the need for county government to be less swayed by the political donations incumbents receive from the lobbyists, vendors and developers that populate Miami-Dade’s donor circuit.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 4 Nov. 2026

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