English Verbs
| Base Form | choose |
| Past Form | chose |
| Past Participle Form | chosen |
| s/es/ies Form | chooses |
| -ing Form | choosing |
Definitions
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- select as an alternative over another
- see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way
Usage Examples
- I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant
English Verbs
| Base Form | sniff |
| Past Form | sniffed |
| Past Participle Form | sniffed |
| s/es/ies Form | sniffs |
| -ing Form | sniffing |
Definitions
- sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
- perceive by inhaling through the nose
- inhale audibly through the nose
Usage Examples
- sniff the perfume
- the sick student was sniffling in the back row
English Verbs
| Base Form | tee |
| Past Form | teed |
| Past Participle Form | teed |
| s/es/ies Form | tees |
| -ing Form | teeing |
Definitions
- support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff
- a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground
- place on a tee
- the starting place for each hole on a golf course
- connect with a tee
Usage Examples
- tee golf balls
- they were waiting on the first tee
- tee two pipes
English Verbs
| Base Form | match |
| Past Form | matched |
| Past Participle Form | matched |
| s/es/ies Form | matches |
| -ing Form | matching |
Definitions
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- set into opposition or rivalry
- be equal to in quality or ability
- lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction
- make correspond or harmonize
Usage Examples
- let them match their best athletes against ours
- Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents
- he always carries matches to light his pipe
- The company matched the discount policy of its competitors
- Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?
English Verbs
| Base Form | solicit |
| Past Form | solicited |
| Past Participle Form | solicited |
| s/es/ies Form | solicits |
| -ing Form | soliciting |
Definitions
- make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
- make amorous advances towards
- incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination
- make a solicitation or petition for something desired
Usage Examples
- Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce
- My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities
- he was solicited by a prostitute
- The young man was caught soliciting in the park
- He was accused of soliciting his colleagues to destroy the documents
English Verbs
| Base Form | fix |
| Past Form | fixed |
| Past Participle Form | fixed |
| s/es/ies Form | fixes |
| -ing Form | fixing |
Definitions
- a determination of the place where something is
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- put (something somewhere) firmly
- make infertile
Usage Examples
- he got a good fix on the target
- he got into a terrible fix
- fix your eyes on this spot
- fix the variables
- I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill
English Verbs
| Base Form | strive |
| Past Form | strove |
| Past Participle Form | striven |
| s/es/ies Form | strives |
| -ing Form | striving |
Definitions
- attempt by employing effort
- to exert much effort or energy
English Verbs
| Base Form | partake |
| Past Form | partook |
| Past Participle Form | partaken |
| s/es/ies Form | partakes |
| -ing Form | partaking |
Definitions
- consume
- have, give, or receive a share of
- have some of the qualities or attributes of something
English Verbs
| Base Form | sweep |
| Past Form | swept |
| Past Participle Form | swept |
| s/es/ies Form | sweeps |
| -ing Form | sweeping |
Definitions
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
Usage Examples
- the sweep of the plains
- a sweep of his arm
- Please sweep the floor
English Verbs
| Base Form | counsel |
| Past Form | counselled |
| Past Participle Form | counselled |
| s/es/ies Form | counsels |
| -ing Form | counselling |
Definitions
- a lawyer who pleads cases in court
- give advice to
- something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action
Usage Examples
- The teacher counsels troubled students
- The lawyer counselled me when I was accused of tax fraud
English Verbs
| Base Form | produce |
| Past Form | produced |
| Past Participle Form | produced |
| s/es/ies Form | produces |
| -ing Form | producing |
Definitions
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- bring out for display
- cause to happen, occur or exist
- fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market
- bring onto the market or release
Usage Examples
- The proud father produced many pictures of his baby
- This procedure produces a curious effect
- These chemicals produce a noxious vapor
- produce a movie
- produce a new play
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 | plod |
| Past Form | plodded |
| Past Participle Form | plodded |
| s/es/ies Form | plods |
| -ing Form | plodding |
Definitions
- the act of walking with a slow heavy gait
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
Usage Examples
- I could recognize his plod anywhere
- Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone
English Verbs
| Base Form | contend |
| Past Form | contended |
| Past Participle Form | contended |
| s/es/ies Form | contends |
| -ing Form | contending |
Definitions
- be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
- have an argument about something
- maintain or assert
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
Usage Examples
- Militant groups are contending for control of the country
- He contended that Communism had no future
English Verbs
| Base Form | waste |
| Past Form | wasted |
| Past Participle Form | wasted |
| s/es/ies Form | wastes |
| -ing Form | wasting |
Definitions
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
Usage Examples
- The water wastes back into the ocean
- He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends
- The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
- waste places
- the trackless wastes of the desert
English Verbs
| Base Form | nurse |
| Past Form | nursed |
| Past Participle Form | nursed |
| s/es/ies Form | nurses |
| -ing Form | nursing |
Definitions
- a woman who is the custodian of children
- give suck to
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)
- serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people
Usage Examples
- The wetnurse suckled the infant
- You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places
- He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon
- He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly
- He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs
English Verbs
| Base Form | slim |
| Past Form | slimmed |
| Past Participle Form | slimmed |
| s/es/ies Form | slims |
| -ing Form | slimming |
Definitions
- take off weight
- being of delicate or slender build
- small in quantity
Usage Examples
- a slim girl with straight blonde hair
- a slim chance of winning
English Verbs
| Base Form | differ |
| Past Form | differed |
| Past Participle Form | differed |
| s/es/ies Form | differs |
| -ing Form | differing |
Definitions
- be of different opinions
- be different
Usage Examples
- I beg to differ!
- These two tests differ in only one respect
English Verbs
| Base Form | magnify |
| Past Form | magnified |
| Past Participle Form | magnified |
| s/es/ies Form | magnifies |
| -ing Form | magnifying |
Definitions
- make large
- increase in size, volume or significance
- to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
English Verbs
| Base Form | trap |
| Past Form | trapped |
| Past Participle Form | trapped |
| s/es/ies Form | traps |
| -ing Form | trapping |
Definitions
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- catch in or as if in a trap
- something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
- a hazard on a golf course
- informal terms for the mouth
Usage Examples
- The men trap foxes
- the exam was full of trap questions
- He was trapped in a difficult situation
- The gaps between the teeth trap food particles
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