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Matched

adjective

1.

Provided with a worthy adversary or competitor.

2.

Going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities.

Match

verb

(past & past part. matched; pres. part. matching)

1.

Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics. Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, tally. "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check" , "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"

2.

Provide funds complementary to.

3.

Bring two objects, ideas, or people together. Synonyms: couple, mate, pair, twin. "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?" , "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"

4.

Be equal to in quality or ability. Synonyms: equal, rival, touch. "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues" , "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"

5.

Make correspond or harmonize. Synonym: fit.

6.

Satisfy or fulfill. Synonyms: cope with, meet. "This job doesn't match my dreams"

7.

Give or join in marriage.

8.

Set into opposition or rivalry. Synonyms: oppose, pit, play off. "Pit a chess player against the Russian champion" , "He plays his two children off against each other"

9.

Be equal or harmonize.

10.

Make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching. Synonyms: equal, equalise, equalize, equate. "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors"

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"Matched" Quotes from Famous Books

... magnificence of his devotion, he gives to smaller souls a dangerous lead. The rigidity of Scripture exegesis belonged to this stately but imperfectly sensitive mode of thought. It passed away with the influence of the older rationalists whose precise denials matched the precise and limited ...

— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel

... opportunity knocks at our door but once in a lifetime. The fact is, opportunity never seeks us; we must seek it. What usually turns out to be one man's opportunity, was another man's loss. In this day one man's brain is matched against another's. It is often the quickness of brain action that determines the result. One man thinks "I will do it," but while he procrastinates the other goes ahead and does the work. They both have the same opportunity. ...

— The Power of Concentration • Theron Q. Dumont

... Anfisa had lived? That would have been a good joke! I should have liked to have seen how she's have settled him! She was the right sort of woman, your mother! a real plucky one, she was! They were well matched!" ...

— Creatures That Once Were Men • Maxim Gorky

... had been made to reach the spot, and of the singular fatality which had hitherto withheld success from all adventurers, though it might seem so easy to follow to its source a light that overpowered the moon and almost matched the sun. It was observable that each smiled scornfully at the madness of every other in anticipating better fortune than the past, yet nourished a scarcely-hidden conviction that he would himself be the favored one. As if to allay their too sanguine hopes, they recurred to the ...

— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... visitors, had remembered the phrase, though her pronunciation of it, according to the standard of the Sorbonne, left something to be desired. The table and chairs, of heavy, shiny oak marvellously and precisely carved by machines, matched the big panels of the wainscot. The windows were high in the wall, thus preventing any intrusion from the clothes-yard on which they looked. The bookcases, protected by leaded panes, held countless volumes of the fiction from ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

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