GRAVELS Synonyms: 110 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of gravel

as in puzzles

to throw into a state of mental uncertainty managed to gravel his opponent in the debate by focusing on atypical examples

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gravels

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noun

plural of gravel

as in sands

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These Companies Are Ready To Cash In Sixsmith argues his firm is unusual in pushing more traders through to genuine live accounts, which is why the reluctance to go there puzzles him.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
The pitch can move to either direction of the plate — a profile that still puzzles his teammates and pitch recognition tools.

— Chandler Rome, New York Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of puzzles

Noun

Nick Prentiss, Bread founder and CEO For young apparel and accessories brands reliant on overseas production, shifting geopolitical sands present a constant moving target.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026
Much of the new interest in monazite, though, is focused on a second type, called heavy mineral sands.

— Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of sands

Verb

But Danny Niemela, a contractor at ArDan Construction, says that the process baffles him.

— Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 15 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, McGrew agreed to adjustments, including adding baffles to reduce sound from a attached generator for the tower and replacing tower fencing that incorporated barbed wire with taller, more natural looking fencing.

— Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026

Definition of baffles

Noun

The two-step treatment starts with a potent trio of glycolic, lactic, and mandelic acids to tackle uneven tone, fine lines, and rough texture, followed by a mask with kaolin and bentonite clays.

— Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 21 Oct. 2026
This last characteristic is great for worms and bivalves that vibrate their way through it, but not so great when earthquakes cause silts and clays to slump into landslides.

— Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of clays

Verb

The legal system dehumanizes her, the support group confuses her, and one of her friends painfully disappoints her.

— Carey Purcell, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
This confuses each Nyota but also those around them, who note that the Nyotas have rather quickly assumed new hairstyles but also that neither is behaving quite like herself.

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of confuses

Noun

This last characteristic is great for worms and bivalves that vibrate their way through it, but not so great when earthquakes cause silts and clays to slump into landslides.

— Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Oct. 2026
Finer clays, silts and coarser sands would all have been deposited by different processes.

— Geoff Emberling, The Conversation, 19 May 2026

Definition of silts

Verb

As fans of the comedian know, Ali G is a streetwise interviewer whose hip hop slang often bewilders guests such as Noam Chomsky, Andy Rooney and Newt Gingrich.

— Brent Lang, Variety, 7 July 2026
The narrator and his wife find that their attachment to the charismatic and cryptic Chibi grows with the cat’s increasing visits, in a way that bewilders them but somehow bonds them closer together.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2026

Definition of bewilders

Noun

But there are actual terrifying objects in space, entities operating on a scale that crush our minds and reduce our human experience to a mote of dust floating in the dark.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026
Keep appliances clean and free of dust, following the manufacturer’s cleaning instructions.

— Lynn Andriani, Martha Stewart, 29 Oct. 2026

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