Thursday, March 12, 2020

90 Verbs Starting with Ex-

90 Verbs Starting with Ex- 90 Verbs Starting with â€Å"Ex-† 90 Verbs Starting with â€Å"Ex-† By Mark Nichol Ex- marks the spot. Go beyond, go out on a limb, go outside your comfort zone. Get some extra excitement by using these vivid verbs starting with the syllable ex-: 1. Exacerbate: to make worse 2. Exact: to call for and obtain (â€Å"exact revenge†) 3. Exaggerate: to overemphasize or overstate 4. Exalt: to glorify or intensify 5. Examine: to inspect, investigate, or scrutinize 6. Exasperate: to aggravate or enrage 7. Excavate: to remove or expose by digging or as if by digging 8. Exceed: to be greater than or to go beyond a limit or normal boundary 9. Except: to keep out or to object 10. Excerpt: to take out or select, especially writing, for other use 11. Exchange: to trade 12. Excise: to remove by cutting or as if by cutting 13. Excite: to arouse or stimulate 14. Exclaim: to cry out passionately or vehemently 15. Exclude: to bar, or to prevent entrance or inclusion 16. Excogitate: to devise 17. Excommunicate: to bar from membership 18. Excoriate: to abrade or censure 19. Excrete: to discharge or eliminate 20. Excruciate: to torture 21. Exculpate: to clear of blame or fault 22. Excuse: to forgive or remove blame from or to justify or make an apology for 23. Execrate: to denounce 24. Execute: to carry out or perform 25. Exemplify: to embody or make an example of 26. Exempt: to set apart or release from a requirement 27. Exenterate: to disembowel 28. Exercise: to practice, train, or put to use 29. Exert: to put forth effort 30. Exfoliate: to cast off or remove 31. Exhale: to breathe out 32. Exhaust: to wear out 33. Exhibit: to show or demonstrate 34. Exhilarate: to refresh or stimulate 35. Exhort: to appeal to or to warn 36. Exhume: to disinter or to rectify neglect 37. Exile: to drive out 37. Exist: to continue to be or to have being 39. Exit: to go out 40. Exonerate: to reverse an accusation 41. Exorcise: to get rid of an evil spirit or something troublesome 42. Expand: to enlarge or spread 43. Expatiate: to wander, or to communicate at length 44. Expatriate: to banish, or to withdraw from residence or allegiance 45. Expect: to await or to suppose 46. Expectorate: to discharge or spit 47. Expedite: to cause to occur quickly, or to dispatch or issue 48. Expel: to eject 49. Expend: to spend, use up, or utilize 50. Experience: to learn or sense by direct participation or observation, or to undergo 51. Experiment: to test or try 52. Expiate: to absolve of guilt, or to make amends 53. Expire: to conclude or die, or to breath out 54. Explain: to make something known or understood or demonstrate knowledge or understanding 55. Explicate: to describe or analyze 56. Explode: to burst or give forth, or suddenly accelerate or increase 57. Exploit: to utilize, or to take advantage of knowledge 58. Explore: to analyze, investigate, or study, or to test or travel 59. Export: to carry, remove, or send 60. Expose: to make known, to show, or to subject to the elements or to view 61. Exposit: see expound 62. Expostulate: to discuss or examine 63. Expound: to argue, comment, or state 64. Express: to force out, to show, or to symbolize, or to offer feelings or opinions or to perform in order to demonstrate artistry and/or communicate creative material 65. Expropriate: to deprive of property or take another’s property for one’s own 66. Expulse: see expel 67. Expunge: to destroy or to strike out 68. Expurgate: to remove something objectionable 69. Exscind: to cut off or out 70. Exsert: to throw out 71. Exsiccate: to dry 72. Extemporize: to improvise 73. Extend: to put or send out 74. Extenuate: to mitigate or to reduce strength or effect 75. Exteriorize: to bring out from inside (as in surgery) 76. Exterminate: to get rid of or kill 77. Externalize: to rationalize, or to make manifest 78. Extinguish: to eclipse, nullify, or quench 79. Extirpate: to cut out, destroy, or uproot 80. Extol: to glorify or praise 81. Extort: to wring from, to obtain from by argument or intimidation 82. Extract: to draw out, remove, or select 83. Extradite: to deliver a fugitive from one jurisdiction to another 84. Extrapolate: to infer, expand on, or predict 85. Extravasate: to cause to escape, or to force out (as in surgery) 86. Extricate: to free or remove from difficulty, or to distinguish from 87. Extrude: to press or push out, or to shape 88. Exuberate: to demonstrate unrestrained joy 89. Exude: to diffuse or spread out, or to display obviously 90. Exult: to rejoice Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Vocabulary category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below:10 Grammar Mistakes You Should Avoid"Have" vs "Having" in Certain Expressions50 Words with Alternative Spellings