PAROLED Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in released

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verb

past tense of parole

as in rescued

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Recent Examples of paroled

Verb

Despite a recent spate of violent offenders being paroled at relatively high rates under the Mattis decision, the overall parole rate has shrunk from 65% to 57% under Chair Angelo Gomez. — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 22 Apr. 2026 He was paroled in January 2010 and discharged from parole in July 2012. — Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for paroled

Adjective

The freed captives, mostly women and children, were among over 300 kidnap victims freed by Nigerian forces this week.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
In fact, the vast majority of freed people remained in the South.

— Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 16 June 2026

Definition of freed

Verb

Four people were rescued and one person remained missing Wednesday night after the crash of a medevac helicopter off Catalina Island, authorities said.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Video released Wednesday morning captured the moments when a Kansas City Police Department detective and a Clay County Sheriff’s deputy rescued a man from a pickup truck that was engulfed in flames.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of rescued

Adjective

The slide-out kitchen stores away under the bed so as not to take up any of the liberated floor space.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2026
The liberated bundle then touches down somewhere else in the genome, where native DNA repair processes paste it in.

— Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of liberated

Verb

What Andert argues in his video is that LINXS has effectively ransomed LAX to the tune of $880 million — so far — to complete the supposedly less than 3 percent that remains to be built on the project.

— Oren Peleg, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2026
After a nearby hospital is hacked and ransomed, the higher-ups decide to defend its system by shutting it down, which means business must be conducted in the old-fashioned, paper-and-clipboards way.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026

Definition of ransomed

Verb

Winter was legally emancipated and declared an adult at age 17 in 2015.

— Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
In 1775, his first enslaver sold him to the commander of Framingham's Minute Men, who emancipated him, and Salem went on to fight at Lexington and Concord.

— Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 4 July 2026

Definition of emancipated

Verb

Kathryn Riley / Getty Week 4 of the NFL season featured dramatic comebacks, quarterbacks who redeemed themselves (while others continued to struggle) and three teams left with undefeated records.

— Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 5 Oct. 2026
The infamous stage musical adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a telekinetic high schooler was a massive Broadway flop in 1988 but has been redeemed by steady community and college theater productions over the decades since.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of redeemed

Verb

Lars Eller, the sixth skater, fired a shot from the point that Anaheim goaltender Lukas Dostal saved.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
One of the more useful recommendations from this research is to stop looking only at hours saved and ask instead what the business is now willing and able to attempt.

— Luboslava Uram, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026

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