Verbs starting with E

• electrify — Verb – English ～ charge (a conductor) with electricity
• electrify — Verb – English ～ equip for use with electricity; "electrify an appliance"
• electrocute — Verb – English ～ kill by electric shock; "She dropped the hair dryer into the bathtub and was instantly electrocuted"
• electrocute — Verb – English ～ kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair; "The serial killer was electrocuted"
• electroplate — Verb – English ～ coat with metal by electrolysis; "electroplate the watch"
• elegise — Verb – English ～ compose an elegy
• elegize — Verb – English ～ compose an elegy
• elektrisere — Verb – Danish ～ forsyne med elektrisk ladning, fx ved gnidning
• elevate — Verb – English ～ give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work"
• 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"
• elevere — Verb – Danish ～ løfte; hæve
• 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"

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