English Verbs
| Base Form | provide |
| Past Form | provided |
| Past Participle Form | provided |
| s/es/ies Form | provides |
| -ing Form | providing |
Definitions
- give something useful or necessary to
- supply means of subsistence; earn a living
- mount or put up
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
Usage Examples
- We provided the room with an electrical heater
- He provides for his large family by working three jobs
- The hostess provided lunch for all the guests
- This procedure provides for lots of leeway
- The will provides that each child should receive half of the money
English Verbs
| Base Form | inquire |
| Past Form | inquired |
| Past Participle Form | inquired |
| s/es/ies Form | inquires |
| -ing Form | inquiring |
Definitions
- conduct an inquiry or investigation of
- have a wish or desire to know something
- address a question to and expect an answer from
Usage Examples
- inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady
- I inquired about their special today
English Verbs
| Base Form | impede |
| Past Form | impeded |
| Past Participle Form | impeded |
| s/es/ies Form | impedes |
| -ing Form | impeding |
Definitions
- be a hindrance or obstacle to
- block passage through
English Verbs
| Base Form | apologize |
| Past Form | apologized |
| Past Participle Form | apologized |
| s/es/ies Form | apologizes |
| -ing Form | apologizing |
Definitions
- acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
Usage Examples
- I apologized for being late
- He apologized for the many typoes
English Verbs
| Base Form | quit |
| Past Form | quit |
| Past Participle Form | quit |
| s/es/ies Form | quits |
| -ing Form | quitting |
Definitions
- put an end to a state or an activity
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
- give up or retire from a position
- go away or leave
- turn away from; give up
English Verbs
| Base Form | dive |
| Past Form | dived |
| Past Participle Form | dived |
| s/es/ies Form | dives |
| -ing Form | diving |
Definitions
- a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft
- a headlong plunge into water
- drop steeply
- a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall
- plunge into water
Usage Examples
- I was afraid to dive from the board into the pool
English Verbs
| Base Form | construct |
| Past Form | constructed |
| Past Participle Form | constructed |
| s/es/ies Form | constructs |
| -ing Form | constructing |
Definitions
- make by combining materials and parts
- an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
- reassemble mentally
- put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
- create by linking linguistic units
Usage Examples
- Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer
- reconstruct the events of 20 years ago
- construct a sentence
- construct a paragraph
- construct a proof
English Verbs
| Base Form | collapse |
| Past Form | collapsed |
| Past Participle Form | collapsed |
| s/es/ies Form | collapses |
| -ing Form | collapsing |
Definitions
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- the act of throwing yourself down
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
Usage Examples
- The wall collapsed
- The business collapsed
- The roof collapsed
- the roof is in danger of collapse
- the collapse of the old star under its own gravity
English Verbs
| Base Form | exclude |
| Past Form | excluded |
| Past Participle Form | excluded |
| s/es/ies Form | excludes |
| -ing Form | excluding |
Definitions
- put out or expel from a place
- prevent from entering; shut out
- prevent from entering; keep out
- prevent from being included or considered or accepted
- lack or fail to include
Usage Examples
- The unruly student was excluded from the game
- This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country
- The bad results were excluded from the report
- The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages
English Verbs
| Base Form | suggest |
| Past Form | suggested |
| Past Participle Form | suggested |
| s/es/ies Form | suggests |
| -ing Form | suggesting |
Definitions
- make a proposal, declare a plan for something
- call to mind
- drop a hint; intimate by a hint
- imply as a possibility
Usage Examples
- The evidence suggests a need for more clarification
English Verbs
| Base Form | include |
| Past Form | included |
| Past Participle Form | included |
| s/es/ies Form | includes |
| -ing Form | including |
Definitions
- allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of
- add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category
- consider as part of something
- have as a part, be made up out of
Usage Examples
- We must include this chemical element in the group
- I include you in the list of culprits
- The list includes the names of many famous writers
English Verbs
| Base Form | satisfy |
| Past Form | satisfied |
| Past Participle Form | satisfied |
| s/es/ies Form | satisfies |
| -ing Form | satisfying |
Definitions
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction
- meet the requirements or expectations of
- make happy or satisfied
English Verbs
| Base Form | leer |
| Past Form | leered |
| Past Participle Form | leered |
| s/es/ies Form | leers |
| -ing Form | leering |
Definitions
- a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls
- a suggestive or sneering look or grin
- look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression
Usage Examples
- The men leered at the young women on the beach
English Verbs
| Base Form | exclude |
| Past Form | excluded |
| Past Participle Form | excluded |
| s/es/ies Form | excludes |
| -ing Form | excluding |
Definitions
- put out or expel from a place
- prevent from entering; shut out
- prevent from entering; keep out
- prevent from being included or considered or accepted
- lack or fail to include
Usage Examples
- The unruly student was excluded from the game
- This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country
- The bad results were excluded from the report
- The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages
English Verbs
| Base Form | connote |
| Past Form | connoted |
| Past Participle Form | connoted |
| s/es/ies Form | connotes |
| -ing Form | connoting |
Definitions
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
- express or state indirectly
English Verbs
| Base Form | consort |
| Past Form | consorted |
| Past Participle Form | consorted |
| s/es/ies Form | consorts |
| -ing Form | consorting |
Definitions
- a family of similar musical instrument playing together
- go together
- keep company with; hang out with
- keep company
- the husband or wife of a reigning monarch
English Verbs
| Base Form | bray |
| Past Form | brayed |
| Past Participle Form | brayed |
| s/es/ies Form | brays |
| -ing Form | braying |
Definitions
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- braying characteristic of donkeys
- laugh loudly and harshly
- the cry of an ass
English Verbs
| Base Form | pause |
| Past Form | paused |
| Past Participle Form | paused |
| s/es/ies Form | pauses |
| -ing Form | pausing |
Definitions
- interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- cease an action temporarily
- temporary inactivity
Usage Examples
- The speaker paused
- We pause for station identification
English Verbs
| Base Form | initiate |
| Past Form | initiated |
| Past Participle Form | initiated |
| s/es/ies Form | initiates |
| -ing Form | initiating |
Definitions
- someone new to a field or activity
- bring up a topic for discussion
- bring into being
- people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity
- accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite
Usage Examples
- He initiated a new program
- it is very familiar to the initiate
- African men are initiated when they reach puberty
English Verbs
| Base Form | found |
| Past Form | founded |
| Past Participle Form | founded |
| s/es/ies Form | founds |
| -ing Form | founding |
Definitions
- use as a basis for; found on
- set up or lay the groundwork for
- set up or found
- come upon unexpectedly or after searching
- food and lodging provided in addition to money
Usage Examples
- found art
- the lost-and-found department
- they worked for $30 and found
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