ACCOMPANIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accompanied mean? 

• ACCOMPANIED (adjective)
  The adjective ACCOMPANIED has 2 senses:

1. having companions or an escort

2. playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment

  Familiarity information: ACCOMPANIED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCOMPANIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having companions or an escort

Context example:

there were lone gentlemen and gentlemen accompanied by their wives

Antonym:

unaccompanied (being without an escort)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment

Synonyms:

accompanied; attended

Antonym:

unaccompanied (playing or singing without accompaniment)

 Context examples 

The midday nap is easily implemented, and it costs nothing, particularly if accompanied by a slightly later end to the day, to avoid cutting into educational time.

(Children Who Nap Are Happier, Have Higher IQ, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Vasculitis due to allergic reaction, marked by such cutaneous lesions as papules, macules, vesicles, urticarial wheals, purpura, and small ulcers, and accompanied by itching and usually a slight fever and malaise.

(Allergic Cutaneous Angiitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It is characterized by high mitotic activity, often accompanied by microvascular proliferation and pseudo-palisading necrosis.

(Anaplastic Ependymoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

The increase in brown fat following a month of cold exposure was accompanied by improved insulin sensitivity after a meal during which volunteers were exposed to mild cold.

(Cool temperature alters human fat and metabolism, NIH)

The scientists found that when they induced muscle regeneration in mice, satellite cells were activated, and this was accompanied by activation of the mouse protein Stat3.

(Controlling Muscle Repair, NIH)

The higher activation currents were accompanied by higher inhibitory potassium channel currents.

(Self-tuning neurons promote resilience to stress, depression, NIH)

Mice with more TTP in their bodies were resistant to the inflammation that accompanied these experimental models of disease.

(Natural protein points to new inflammation treatment, NIH)

Apprehension of danger and dread accompanied by restlessness, tension, tachycardia, and dyspnea unattached to a clearly identifiable stimulus.

(Anxiety, NCI Thesaurus)

A category of psychiatric disorders which are characterized by anxious feelings or fear often accompanied by physical symptoms associated with anxiety.

(Anxiety Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

The activation of b-lap also causes hyperactivation of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1), an enzyme that facilitates DNA repair, accompanied by rapid depletion of NAD+/ATP nucleotide levels.

(Beta-lapachone Prodrug ARQ 761, NCI Thesaurus)