| Base Form |
Past Simple |
Past Participle |
Definition |
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Backbite |
Backbit |
Backbitten |
To speak badly about someone
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Backfit |
Backfit |
Backfit |
To fit new parts into an older machine that
weren't available when the machine was made |
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Backlight |
Backlit |
Backlit |
To illuminate from behind (photography) |
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Backslide |
Backslid |
Backslid/Backslidden |
To stop making progress and start regressing
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Be |
Was/Were |
Been |
To exist, live or occur.
To have as a quality or a state
An auxiliary verb
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Bear |
Bore |
Born/Borne |
To carry
To tolerate
To give birth to
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Beat |
Beat |
Beaten |
To hit repeatedly
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Become |
Became |
Become |
To come into existence
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Bedight |
Bedight/Bedighted |
Bedight/Bedighted |
To adorn, decorate |
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Befall |
Befell |
Befallen |
To happen
To happen to somebody or something
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Beget |
Begot/Begat |
Begotten |
To cause something to happen
To procreate
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Begin |
Began |
Begun |
To start something
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Begird |
Begirt/Begirded |
Begirt |
To encircle |
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Behight |
Behight |
Behight/Behoten |
To promise or vow
To order |
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Behold |
Beheld |
Beheld |
To become conscious of by seeing
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Belay |
Belaid/Belayed |
Belaid/Belayed |
To secure a boat with a rope
To tie up |
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Bend |
Bent |
Bent |
To curve something by distorting its shape
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Bereave |
Bereft |
Bereft/Bereaved |
To lose a relative through their death
To deprive |
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Beseech |
Besought/Beseeched |
Besought/Beseeched |
To ask someone very insistently to do
something
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Beset |
Beset |
Beset |
To be restricted and occupied by
difficulties
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Bespeak |
Bespoke |
Bespoken |
To be a signal or symbol of something
To set aside or reserve something
To ask for |
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Bestrew |
Bestrewed |
Bestrewed/Bestrewn |
To cover a surface by throwing things about
randomly
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Bestride |
Bestrode |
Bestridden |
To sit or stand with one leg on either side
of something |
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Bet |
Bet |
Bet |
To risk money against the result of a future
event
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Betake |
Betook |
Betaken |
To go to a place
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Bethink |
Bethought |
Bethought |
To think about something
To remind yourself
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Beweep |
Bewept |
Bewept |
To cry for or over someone or something |
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Bid |
Bid |
Bid |
To make an offer of money or services
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Bid |
Bade |
Bidden |
To command or urge someone to do something
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Bide |
Bided/Bode |
Bided |
To wait for
To tolerate
To withstand |
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Bind |
Bound |
Bound |
To tie something with string, or similar, to
hold it
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Bite |
Bit |
Bitten |
To cut or hold with teeth
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Blaw |
Blawed |
Blawn |
To blow
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Bleed |
Bled |
Bled |
To lose blood through a cut in the skin
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Blend |
Blended/Blent |
Blended/Blent |
To mix together |
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Bless |
Blessed/Blest |
Blessed/Blest |
To wish or confer happiness
To make holy |
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Blow |
Blew |
Blown |
To move air, wind and gases
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Bottle-feed |
Bottle-fed |
Bottle-fed |
To feed a baby with a bottle |
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Bowstring |
Bowstrung/Bowstringed |
Bowstrung |
To strangle with the string from a bow |
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Break |
Broke |
Broken |
To cause something to separate into at least
two pieces
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Breast-feed |
Breast-fed |
Breast-fed |
To feed a baby with breast milk |
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Breed |
Bred |
Bred |
To produce animals or plants by controlling
their reproduction
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Bring |
Brought |
Brought |
To carry or convey something to the place
where you are going
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Broadcast |
Broadcast/Broadcasted |
Broadcast/Broadcasted |
To transmit radio or TV signals
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Browbeat |
Browbeat |
Browbeat/Browbeaten |
To put pressure on someone or bully them to
do something
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Build |
Built |
Built |
To construct
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Burn |
Burnt/Burned |
Burnt/Burned |
To consume or be consumed by fire
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Burst |
Burst |
Burst |
To break something open, usually by internal
pressure, such as a balloon with too much air in
it
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Bust |
Bust |
Bust |
To break
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Buy |
Bought |
Bought |
To acquire something in exchange for money
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| Base Form |
Past Simple |
Past Participle |
Definition |
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Cast |
Cast |
Cast |
To throw or project something
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Catch |
Caught |
Caught |
To receive
To stop and hold a moving object, usually with
your hands
To make something unable to escape
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Cheerlead |
Cheerled |
Cheerled |
To cheer and support a team in an organised
group |
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Chide |
Chid |
Chid/Chidden |
To tell somebody off when they have done
something wrong
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Choose |
Chose |
Chosen |
To select
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Clap |
Clapped/Clapt |
Clapped/Clapt |
To hit your hands together to make a sound
to show approval
To make a loud noise, like thunder
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Clear-cut |
Clear-cut |
Clear-cut |
To cut down all trees in an area |
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Cleave |
Cleft/Cleaved/Clove |
Cleft/Cleaved/Cloven |
To separate or divide something, often with
force
To stick or hold together |
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Cleek |
Claught/Claucht/Cleeked |
Cleeked |
To grasp or take hold of |
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Clepe |
Cleped |
Cleped/Ycleped/Yclept |
To call or name
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Cling |
Clung |
Clung |
To hold on to or to stick to
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Clothe |
Clad/Clothed |
Clad/Clothed |
To dress someone or provide them with
clothes
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Colorbreed |
Colorbred |
Colorbred |
To breed an animal to be of a particular
color
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Colorcast |
Colorcast |
Colorcast |
To broadcast in color |
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Come |
Came |
Come |
To move towards or to arrive at a specified
place, time or situation
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Cost |
Cost |
Cost |
The amount of money required to buy
something; it costs five dollars.
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Cost-cut |
Cost-cut |
Cost-cut |
To redcuce costs or expenditure |
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Counterdraw |
Counterdrew |
Counterdrawn |
To copy by tracing |
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Counterlight |
Counterlit |
Counterlit |
To light something directly from opposite
sides |
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Cowrite |
Cowrote |
Cowritten |
To write with someone |
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Crash-dive |
Crash-dived/Crash-dove |
Crash-dived |
To go down very quickly |
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Creep |
Crept |
Crept |
To move along the ground lying down
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Creep-feed |
Creep-fed |
Creep-fed |
To feed young animals in a special area that
adult animals can't get in |
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Crib-bite |
Crib-bit |
Crib-bitten |
To bite its manger and swallow air (of a
horse) |
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Cross-bite |
Cross-bit |
Cross-bitten |
To thwart or stop something happening by
deception |
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Cross-string |
Cross-strung |
Cross-strung |
To place bass strings on a piano across the
treble strings |
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Crossbreed |
Crossbred |
Crossbred |
To breed animals or plants of different
species, like a mule, which is a crossbreed of a
donkey and a horse
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Crosscut |
Crosscut |
Crosscut |
To move between scenes or stories in a film
or narrative |
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Crosslight |
Crosslit |
Crosslit |
To illuminate from different sides, but not
directly opposite |
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Crow |
Crowed/Crew |
Crowed |
To boast
To utter a sound indicating pleasure |
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Cut |
Cut |
Cut |
To break the surface of something with a
knife or similar tool
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