SKYLARKED Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

skylarked

verb

past tense of skylark

as in cut up

to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior couldn't resist the temptation to skylark as commencement ceremonies came to a close

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as in played

to engage in activity for amusement he spends his time joking and skylarking, but his brother is serious and industrious

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Everything is cut up and put together through chance operations into what Cage called a Musicircus.

— Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
During the matchup, Jeter dove into the stands in the top of the 12th inning to catch a foul ball, emerging from the crowd cut up and bruised.

— Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 29 June 2026

Definition of cut up

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Kelce played a bully of a restaurant manager who fires a busboy (played by Bad Bunny).

— Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 8 July 2026
She has been featured in various TV shows, including an English show called Upstairs, Downstairs (1971), and played Desdemona in Broadway’s Othello before retiring in the early 1980s, per the Walt Disney Archives.

— Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026

Definition of played

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Higgins also recreated Zendaya’s iconic tennis ball heels from the Challengers press tour.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 1 July 2026
Shooting took place across Ho Chi Minh City and Orange County and Los Angeles, California, in April 2025, with the bulk of the wartime sequences captured on Vietnamese soil rather than recreated on a studio backlot abroad.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 June 2026

Definition of recreated

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While doing press for her film, The Odyssey, in New York City, the actress wore a bright red jumpsuit with a drop-waist peplum that showed off her baby bump.

— Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026
Brittany Mahomes showed off a head full of romantic wavy curls created by Nashville stylist Brooke Barloe, who posted a photo on her Instagram.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2026

Definition of showed off

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While hundreds reveled at Thursday night’s all-out bash for The Pierre hotel’s 95th anniversary, some of the building’s tenants in the floors above haven’t been feeling quite as celebratory.

— Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 21 Nov. 2025
In the party scene, though, there would be plenty of swooping camera movements as the guests revelled.

— Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025

Definition of reveled

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