Verbs in english

• elevate — Verb – English ～ raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"
• elevate — Verb – English ～ raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
• elicit — Verb – English ～ call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
• elicit — Verb – English ～ derive by reason; "elicit a solution"
• elicit — Verb – English ～ deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
• elide — Verb – English ～ leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"
• eliminate — Verb – English ～ do away with
• eliminate — Verb – English ～ terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
• eliminate — Verb – English ～ eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"
• eliminate — Verb – English ～ kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
• eliminate — Verb – English ～ remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
• eliminate — Verb – English ～ dismiss from consideration or a contest; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"
• eliminate — Verb – English ～ remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
• elocute — Verb – English ～ declaim in an elocutionary manner; "The poet elocuted beautifully"
• elongate — Verb – English ～ make long or longer by pulling and stretching; "stretch the fabric"
• elope — Verb – English ～ run away secretly with one's beloved; "The young couple eloped and got married in Las Vegas"
• elucidate — Verb – English ～ make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death"
• elucidate — Verb – English ～ make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault"
• elude — Verb – English ～ be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
• elude — Verb – English ～ avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"

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