BARKED Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

barked 1 of 2

verb (1)

past tense of bark

as in peeled

to remove the natural covering of barking a tree will probably kill it

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verb (2)

past tense of bark

as in shouted

to speak sharply or irritably the new supervisor found that speaking to people with a civil tongue got better results than barking at them

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The upstairs neighbors had two mastiffs who were left home all day and who barked incessantly and scratched at the floor of their kennel. — Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026 After the top of the ninth, Orioles reliever Cam Sanders barked at the Red Sox dugout, leading Ceddanne Rafaela and Jarren Duran to shout back from the top step, but nothing more transpired. — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026 Mike Vrabel barked out instruction during a situational period working end-of-half plays, including one Hail Mary. — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 5 Aug. 2026 Her dog barked, and Vera went to say hello, scratching the mutt between the ears. — Eric Boodman, STAT, 31 July 2026 When The Times knocked on the door of the home Yeager had hoped to rent — days after Yeager had been told the tenants would be moving out — a dog immediately barked. — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026 Two hikers are facing charges after their off-leash dog repeatedly ran toward and barked at a grizzly bear during an encounter in Banff National Park. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026 Outside, the guards were often genial and chatty; inside, visitors were treated as objects of suspicion, barked at and insulted. — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026 Days or weeks passed, but then the dog barked, the mail carrier tramped onto the porch, the mailbox clattered. — Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

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Combine 1 large red or yellow onion, finely chopped, 3 celery stalks, finely chopped, 1 large carrot, peeled, finely chopped, 1 tsp.

— Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
To save time, look for pre-cut, peeled butternut squash cubes in your supermarket.

— Carole Kotkin, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of peeled

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Children shouted, amped up on sugar and adrenaline, while orange leaves crunched under their feet.

— Isa Mudannayake, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Farrelly was on hand to introduce the movie and shouted out his star, newcomer Anthony Ippolito, who has already earned praise for his portrayal of Stallone.

— Ellise Shafer, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of shouted

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The Broncos, at 4-11, flew back to Denver as a snowstorm snarled travel across the country.

— Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2026
The prolonged war in Ukraine has also snarled global wheat trade through the Black Sea, compounding economic effects and undermining food security in vulnerable countries.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of snarled

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There were big things in antiquity—the pyramids of Egypt and Mexico; the Colossus of Rhodes, which stood at two thirds the height of the Statue of Liberty until an earthquake snapped it at the knees in 226 BCE—but there weren’t many of them.

— Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
New York's Alexis Lafrenière had a six-game point streak snapped.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of snapped

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Since then, Barkley has growled at several other people, and all but one have been diagnosed with some type of cancer, Dozier said.

— Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 11 Aug. 2026
At the other end of our road, the cranes of the docks loomed — great Stothert and Pitt machines that growled overhead like something out of Star Wars, guarding the scale and mystery of the River Thames.

— Lee Clayton, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026

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