English Verbs
| Base Form | uproot |
| Past Form | uprooted |
| Past Participle Form | uprooted |
| s/es/ies Form | uproots |
| -ing Form | uprooting |
Definitions
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
Usage Examples
- the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted
- uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden
- The war uprooted many people
English Verbs
| Base Form | overflow |
| Past Form | overflowed |
| Past Participle Form | overflowed |
| s/es/ies Form | overflows |
| -ing Form | overflowing |
Definitions
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity
- a large flow
- overflow with a certain feeling
English Verbs
| Base Form | infect |
| Past Form | infected |
| Past Participle Form | infected |
| s/es/ies Form | infects |
| -ing Form | infecting |
Definitions
- contaminate with a disease or microorganism
- affect in a contagious way
- communicate a disease to
- corrupt with ideas or an ideology
Usage Examples
- His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room
- Your children have infected you with this head cold
- society was infected by racism
English Verbs
| Base Form | sap |
| Past Form | sapped |
| Past Participle Form | sapped |
| s/es/ies Form | saps |
| -ing Form | sapping |
Definitions
- a person who lacks good judgment
- deplete
- a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
- a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
- excavate the earth beneath
English Verbs
| Base Form | verify |
| Past Form | verified |
| Past Participle Form | verified |
| s/es/ies Form | verifies |
| -ing Form | verifying |
Definitions
- check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard
- to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition)
- confirm the truth of
Usage Examples
- Please verify that the doors are closed
- verify a claim
English Verbs
| Base Form | scarify |
| Past Form | scarified |
| Past Participle Form | scarified |
| s/es/ies Form | scarifies |
| -ing Form | scarifying |
Definitions
- break up
- puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals
- scratch the surface of
Usage Examples
- scarify soil
- The men in some African tribes scarify their faces
- scarify seeds
English Verbs
| Base Form | sever |
| Past Form | severed |
| Past Participle Form | severed |
| s/es/ies Form | severs |
| -ing Form | severing |
Definitions
- cut off from a whole
- set or keep apart
Usage Examples
- His head was severed from his body
- sever a relationship
English Verbs
| Base Form | relate |
| Past Form | related |
| Past Participle Form | related |
| s/es/ies Form | relates |
| -ing Form | relating |
Definitions
- make a logical or causal connection
- be relevant to
- be in a relationship with
- give an account of
- have or establish a relationship to
Usage Examples
- I cannot relate these events at all
- How are these two observations related?
- The witness related the events
- She relates well to her peers
English Verbs
| Base Form | consist |
| Past Form | consisted |
| Past Participle Form | consisted |
| s/es/ies Form | consists |
| -ing Form | consisting |
Definitions
- be composed of
- originate (in)
- be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous
- have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in
Usage Examples
- What does this dish consist of?
- Desires are to be satisfied only so far as consists with an approved end
- The payment consists in food
- What does love consist in?
English Verbs
| Base Form | sentence |
| Past Form | sentenced |
| Past Participle Form | sentenced |
| s/es/ies Form | sentences |
| -ing Form | sentencing |
Definitions
- pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
- (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language
Usage Examples
- his sentence was 5 to 10 years
- he always spoke in grammatical sentences
English Verbs
| Base Form | climb |
| Past Form | climbed |
| Past Participle Form | climbed |
| s/es/ies Form | climbs |
| -ing Form | climbing |
Definitions
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress
- go up or advance
- increase in value or to a higher point
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
Usage Examples
- Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?
- Sales were climbing after prices were lowered
- prices climbed steeply
- it was a difficult climb to the top
- This young man knows how to climb the social ladder
English Verbs
| Base Form | fetch |
| Past Form | fetched |
| Past Participle Form | fetched |
| s/es/ies Form | fetches |
| -ing Form | fetching |
Definitions
- be sold for a certain price
- go or come after and bring or take back
- take away or remove
- the action of fetching
Usage Examples
- The old print fetched a high price at the auction
- The dog fetched the hat
- The devil will fetch you!
English Verbs
| Base Form | salute |
| Past Form | saluted |
| Past Participle Form | saluted |
| s/es/ies Form | salutes |
| -ing Form | saluting |
Definitions
- propose a toast to
- an act of honor or courteous recognition
- recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position
- a formal military gesture of respect
- an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat
Usage Examples
- a musical salute to the composer on his birthday
- When the officers show up, the soldiers have to salute
- a terrible stench saluted our nostrils
- I salute your courage!
- I meet this men every day on my way to work and he salutes me
English Verbs
| Base Form | treasure |
| Past Form | treasured |
| Past Participle Form | treasured |
| s/es/ies Form | treasures |
| -ing Form | treasuring |
Definitions
- accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.
- be fond of; be attached to
- hold dear
- art highly prized for its beauty or perfection
- a collection of precious things
Usage Examples
- the pirates hid their treasure on a small island in the West Indies
- the trunk held all her meager treasures
- the children returned from the seashore with their shells and other treasures
English Verbs
| Base Form | imagine |
| Past Form | imagined |
| Past Participle Form | imagined |
| s/es/ies Form | imagines |
| -ing Form | imagining |
Definitions
- form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
- expect, believe, or suppose
Usage Examples
- I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel
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 | endure |
| Past Form | endured |
| Past Participle Form | endured |
| s/es/ies Form | endures |
| -ing Form | enduring |
Definitions
- persist for a specified period of time
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- continue to live and avoid dying
- undergo or be subjected to
- face and withstand with courage
Usage Examples
- The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks
- The legend of Elvis endures
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 | surmise |
| Past Form | surmised |
| Past Participle Form | surmised |
| s/es/ies Form | surmises |
| -ing Form | surmising |
Definitions
- imagine to be the case or true or probable
- a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
- infer from incomplete evidence
Usage Examples
- I surmised that the butler did it
English Verbs
| Base Form | latch |
| Past Form | latched |
| Past Participle Form | latched |
| s/es/ies Form | latches |
| -ing Form | latching |
Definitions
- spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key
- catch for fastening a door or gate; a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove
- fasten with a latch
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