English Verbs
| Base Form | renew |
| Past Form | renewed |
| Past Participle Form | renewed |
| s/es/ies Form | renews |
| -ing Form | renewing |
Definitions
- cause to appear in a new form
- reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new
Usage Examples
- We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years
- They renewed their membership
English Verbs
| Base Form | undo |
| Past Form | undid |
| Past Participle Form | undone |
| s/es/ies Form | undoes |
| -ing Form | undoing |
Definitions
- deprive of certain characteristics
- remove the outer cover or wrapping of
- cause to become loose
- cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect
- cause the ruin or downfall of
Usage Examples
- undo the parcel
- undo the shoelace
- I wish I could undo my actions
English Verbs
| Base Form | split |
| Past Form | split |
| Past Participle Form | split |
| s/es/ies Form | splits |
| -ing Form | splitting |
Definitions
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
- separate into parts or portions
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
Usage Examples
- a split group
- My friend and I split up
- they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock
- he inserted the wedge into a split in the log
- he demanded his split before they disbanded
English Verbs
| Base Form | encroach |
| Past Form | encroached |
| Past Participle Form | encroached |
| s/es/ies Form | encroaches |
| -ing Form | encroaching |
Definitions
- impinge or infringe upon
- advance beyond the usual limit
English Verbs
| Base Form | detach |
| Past Form | detached |
| Past Participle Form | detached |
| s/es/ies Form | detaches |
| -ing Form | detaching |
Definitions
- come to be detached
- cause to become detached or separated; take off
- separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment
Usage Examples
- His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery
- detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it
- detach a regiment
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 | neglect |
| Past Form | neglected |
| Past Participle Form | neglected |
| s/es/ies Form | neglects |
| -ing Form | neglecting |
Definitions
- failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- give little or no attention to
- the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
- the state of something that has been unused and neglected
Usage Examples
- the house was in a terrible state of neglect
- he neglects his children
English Verbs
| Base Form | burst |
| Past Form | burst |
| Past Participle Form | burst |
| s/es/ies Form | bursts |
| -ing Form | bursting |
Definitions
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- a sudden intense happening
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
- be in a state of movement or action
- a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason)
Usage Examples
- an outburst of heavy rain
- a burst of lightning
- The dam burst
- a burst of applause
- the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft
English Verbs
| Base Form | rebuild |
| Past Form | rebuilt |
| Past Participle Form | rebuilt |
| s/es/ies Form | rebuilds |
| -ing Form | rebuilding |
Usage Examples
- The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb
English Verbs
| Base Form | consecrate |
| Past Form | consecrated |
| Past Participle Form | consecrated |
| s/es/ies Form | consecrates |
| -ing Form | consecrating |
Definitions
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- dedicate to a deity by a vow
- render holy by means of religious rites
- appoint to a clerical posts
- solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose
Usage Examples
- consecrate your life to the church
- a life consecrated to science
- the consecrated chapel
English Verbs
| Base Form | coo |
| Past Form | cooed |
| Past Participle Form | cooed |
| s/es/ies Form | coos |
| -ing Form | cooing |
Definitions
- cry softly, as of pigeons
- speak softly or lovingly
- the sound made by a pigeon
Usage Examples
- The mother who held her baby was cooing softly
English Verbs
| Base Form | imprison |
| Past Form | imprisoned |
| Past Participle Form | imprisoned |
| s/es/ies Form | imprisons |
| -ing Form | imprisoning |
Definitions
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
- confine as if in a prison
Usage Examples
- The suspects were imprisoned without trial
- His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone
English Verbs
| Base Form | imply |
| Past Form | implied |
| Past Participle Form | implied |
| s/es/ies Form | implies |
| -ing Form | implying |
Definitions
- have as a logical consequence
- have as a necessary feature
- suggest that someone is guilty
- express or state indirectly
- suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic
English Verbs
| Base Form | illumine |
| Past Form | illumined |
| Past Participle Form | illumined |
| s/es/ies Form | illumines |
| -ing Form | illumining |
English Verbs
| Base Form | hate |
| Past Form | hated |
| Past Participle Form | hated |
| s/es/ies Form | hates |
| -ing Form | hating |
Definitions
- the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
- dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards
English Verbs
| Base Form | scare |
| Past Form | scared |
| Past Participle Form | scared |
| s/es/ies Form | scares |
| -ing Form | scaring |
Definitions
- cause fear in
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
- a sudden attack of fear
- cause to lose courage
Usage Examples
- a war scare
- a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building
English Verbs
| Base Form | cling |
| Past Form | clung |
| Past Participle Form | clung |
| s/es/ies Form | clings |
| -ing Form | clinging |
Definitions
- fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit
- hold on tightly or tenaciously
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
Usage Examples
- The dress clings to her body
English Verbs
| Base Form | suffer |
| Past Form | suffered |
| Past Participle Form | suffered |
| s/es/ies Form | suffers |
| -ing Form | suffering |
Definitions
- feel physical pain
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- be set at a disadvantage
- feel pain or be in pain
Usage Examples
- She suffered a fracture in the accident
- This author really suffers in translation
- suffer a terrible fate
- He suffered the penalty
- Many saints suffered martyrdom
English Verbs
| Base Form | sally |
| Past Form | sallied |
| Past Participle Form | sallied |
| s/es/ies Form | sallies |
| -ing Form | sallying |
Definitions
- a venture off the beaten path
- witty remark
- a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
Usage Examples
- a sally into the wide world beyond his home
English Verbs
| Base Form | pretend |
| Past Form | pretended |
| Past Participle Form | pretended |
| s/es/ies Form | pretends |
| -ing Form | pretending |
Definitions
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- the enactment of a pretense
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
- state insincerely
- imagined as in a play
Usage Examples
- it was just pretend
- She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber
- She pretends to be an expert on wine
- dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish
- I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong
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