Verbs in english starting with A

• aah — Verb – English ～ express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'; "They oohed and aahed when they unwrapped the presents"
• abacinate — Verb – English ～ blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes; "The prisoners were abacinated by their captors"
• abandon — Verb – English ～ forsake, leave behind; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot"
• abandon — Verb – English ～ leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
• abandon — Verb – English ～ leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight"
• abandon — Verb – English ～ stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations"
• abandon — Verb – English ～ give up with the intent of never claiming again; "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead"
• abase — Verb – English ～ cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
• abash — Verb – English ～ cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious
• abate — Verb – English ～ become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours"
• abate — Verb – English ～ make less active or intense
• abbreviate — Verb – English ～ reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
• abbreviate — Verb – English ～ shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"
• abdicate — Verb – English ～ give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"
• abduce — Verb – English ～ advance evidence for
• abduct — Verb – English ～ take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"
• abduct — Verb – English ～ pull away from the body; "this muscle abducts"
• aberrate — Verb – English ～ diverge from the expected; "The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman"
• aberrate — Verb – English ～ diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration; "The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens"
• abet — Verb – English ～ assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing

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