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variants also durned

darned

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verb

past tense of darn
as in stitched
to close up with a series of interlacing stitches in the old days, holes in socks had to be darned by hand

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for darned
Adjective
  • Diesel plays Kaulder, a cursed immortal knight who is tasked with keeping rogue witches in line and hidden from the general populace.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 13 June 2025
  • Kidman and Bullock Are Returning The two actresses will reprise their roles as sisters Gillian and Sally Owens, bound together by blood and their cursed taste in men.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2025
Verb
  • Microsoft has campaigned hard to switch Chrome users to its Edge browser, taking flak for the nags and ads stitched into Windows itself, including ones that interrupt Chrome installations on a PC.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The vast majority of leather belts on the market are machine stitched, with a vanishingly small minority distinguished by a painstaking process called saddle-stitching.
    Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The watch measure 44 mm, is made from blasted titanium and features a honeycomb skeletonization of the case that reduces the weight by 50 percent, Ross told Robb Report.
    Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2024
  • When the moment of triumph finally arrived, with a blasted inside-in forehand to the postage stamp corner of the court, Djokovic, 37, crouched to his knees and immediately succumbed to the first set of tears.
    Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 4 Aug. 2024
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“Darned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/darned. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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