Verbs in english starting with J

• jumble — Verb – English ～ assemble without order or sense; "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
• jump — Verb – English ～ cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"
• jump — Verb – English ～ move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room"
• jump — Verb – English ～ go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
• jump — Verb – English ～ move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"
• jump — Verb – English ～ increase suddenly and significantly; "Prices jumped overnight"
• jump — Verb – English ～ make a sudden physical attack on; "The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat"
• jump — Verb – English ～ enter eagerly into; "He jumped into the game"
• jump — Verb – English ～ run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks"
• jump — Verb – English ～ pass abruptly from one state or topic to another; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another"
• jump — Verb – English ～ be highly noticeable
• jump for joy — Verb – English ～ feel extreme happiness or elation
• jump — Verb – English ～ jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre"
• jump — Verb – English ～ rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"
• jump — Verb – English ～ start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
• jump — Verb – English ～ bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"
• jump — Verb – English ～ jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
• jumpstart — Verb – English ～ start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
• jumpstart — Verb – English ～ start or re-start vigorously; "The Secretary of State intends to jumpstart the Middle East Peace Process"
• junk — Verb – English ～ dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer"

Previous ·1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ·Next