CHANGED Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

changed

verb

past tense of change

as in modified

to make different in some way my wife has changed the look of our living room more times than we care to remember

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as in shifted

to pass from one form, state, or level to another the weather in New England is constantly changing

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as in exchanged

to give up (something) and take something else in return would you mind changing your seat so my friends can sit together?

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Recent Examples of changed After arriving at their Missouri residence, Kelker-Kelly changed his clothes and got into bed. — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026 The Legislature changed state law to ban the government from spending public funds on political ads. — Christopher Spata, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026 Indeed, things have changed a bit since the film shoot three years ago. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2026 Two papacies and twenty years later, Pope Leo XIV has changed the rules of the game. — ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026 The broader reality is technology has changed the way people read. — Dana Kelley, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026 Voters who have changed their names should bring their identification and be prepared to follow the poll worker's instructions. — S.e. Jenkins, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 Nobody asked the question because, on paper, nobody changed the decision. — Maman Ibrahim, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 So some pictures are off the walls, and the lamp on his desk changed. — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026

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Verb

The new generation of therapeutic peptides is chemically modified to resist breakdown in the gastrointestinal tract, where traditional peptide drugs degrade before they can be absorbed.

— Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026
That makes this galactic trio bad news for MOND, or modified Newtonian dynamics, an alternative to dark matter proposed in 1983 by the physicist Mordehai Milgrom.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of modified

Verb

China, for example, shifted from a net provider of finance to a net extractor over the last decade.

— Masood Ahmed, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
Obviously, the mood has shifted around this college town thanks to the Hoosiers winning last year's CFP title, along with having a head coach in Curt Cignetti who has turned this program into a football juggernaut in just two years.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of shifted

Verb

Jackson struck Chubb after the two exchanged words following the Bills' 37-34 overtime victory over the Rams at SoFi Stadium.

— CBS News, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
In sharp contrast to sprawling industry conferences or high-volume networking mixers where business cards are exchanged in seven-minute increments, these occasions are engineered for depth, the co-founders said.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of exchanged

Verb

The label will be applied to songs that were created entirely or altered significantly with AI.

— Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
And Mars, to this day, even after its climate has been substantially altered, still has all the raw materials for life in abundance in a way that the moon doesn’t and that even Venus doesn’t.

— Lee Billings, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of altered

Verb

Coaching was the most common answer in each country, but its prominence varied.

— Gustavo E. Fischman, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
The same meta-analysis found that some associations varied by age and by whether passive use happened in general social media feeds or inside smaller online groups.

— Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of varied

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Roberts had swapped Hernández and slumping Will Smith in the batting order, moving Hernández up to third and Smith down to fifth.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Factories first swapped the central steam plant that drove every machine through a system of rotating shafts for an electric motor.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of swapped

Verb

The expectations are there for the Bengals, which remodeled their defense and offensive line with the goal of making another Super Bowl run during the Burrow era.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026
Designed in the mid-1990s by architect Steven Ehrlich and later remodeled by interior designer Michael Lee, the residence offers four bedrooms and six bathrooms in roughly 6,500 square feet.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of remodeled

Verb

Most critics either loved it or hated it, and they were split right down the middle, with a Tomatometer rating that has fluctuated around 50% since the film’s release.

— Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 12 Oct. 2026
In the western state of Táchira, the cuts fluctuated between 34 and 58 hours per week.

— Catherine Ellis, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026