Verbs starting with P that are validated

• pay up — Verb – English ～ cancel or discharge a debt; "pay up, please!"
• pass up — Verb – English ～ refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality"
• pep up — Verb – English ～ make more interesting or lively; "juice up a party"; "pep up your paper"
• puff up — Verb – English ～ to swell or cause to enlarge; "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests"
• puff up — Verb – English ～ make larger or distend; "The estimates were puffed up"
• psych up — Verb – English ～ get excited or stimulated; "The children were all psyched up after the movie"
• put up — Verb – English ～ put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
• pull up — Verb – English ～ come to a halt after driving somewhere; "The Rolls pulled up on pour front lawn"; "The chauffeur hauled up in front of us"
• pull up — Verb – English ～ straighten oneself; "He drew himself up when he talked to his superior"
• put up — Verb – English ～ construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"
• pull up — Verb – English ～ remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
• pull up stakes — Verb – English ～ remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"
• put up — Verb – English ～ propose as a candidate for some honor
• push up — Verb – English ～ push upward
• put up — Verb – English ～ provide; "The city has to put up half the required amount"
• put up — Verb – English ～ make available for sale at an auction; "The dealer put up three of his most valuable paintings for auction"
• push up — Verb – English ～ push upward; "The front of the trains that had collided head-on thrust up into the air"
• put up — Verb – English ～ mount or put up; "put up a good fight"; "offer resistance"
• pull up short — Verb – English ～ stop abruptly; "The police car pulled up short and then turned around fast"
• prop up — Verb – English ～ support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building"

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