- abash
I might have been abashed by their authority.
- abbreviate to
September is usually abbreviated to Sep.
- abuse
If your child was sexually abused in a daycare, it's extremely important to get help as soon as possible.
- accoutre
He was accoutred in a riding dress.
- actuate
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power.
- adapt as
Many of Shakespearean plays have been adapted as films.
- adapt from
This film was adapted from a novel.
- addict
She is addicted to music.
- addict to
Sady is addicted to collecting stamps.
- affect (passive only)
One of the domestics was affected to his special service.
- affiance
He is affianced to her.
- aggrieve
She was aggrieved at the insult.
- ally
France developed a nuclear force de frappe and left the NATO command structure while continuing to be allied with the other Western countries.
The English language is allied to the German language.
The two companies are closely allied with each other. - appoint
The House of Commons, as it was never intended for the support of peace and subordination, is miserably appointed for that service.
- articulate
It is articulated to the spine.
- associate
Cigarette smoking has been associated with lung cancer.
- attach
I then was attached to another unit and we were deployed to the Philippines as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.
- attend
This is evident from the consideration that the growth of the cells is attended by the growth in surface of the cell wall, and as the latter is a secretion from the protoplasm, such a decomposition cannot readily take place unless oxygen is admitted to it.
- avenge
Hamlet was avenged on his uncle.
- avenge of
She was avenged of her mother’s murder.
- bar
And often they are barred with stripes, usually black but can be other colours.
- batter
The old hat was battered beyond recognition.
- bear
The traffic accident was born almost accidentally.
- bear away
He was borne away with joy when his lost ring was given back to him.
- bear in on/upon
The serious condition was borne in on them.
- beat out
I was beaten out by the work.
- beat up
Let me take a rest, I'm all beat up.
- becalm
My stomach got worse when the schooner was becalmed.
- bedew with
Her eyes were bedewed with tears.
- bedraggle
She was bedraggled when she came in out of the rain.
- bemuse
She was bemused by all the questions.
- bend
He was bent on success.
- betroth
The young couple was betrothed with the approval of both families.
- bind
But he is bound to secrecy with regard to those sins, since they are told to him as to God.
- bind down
While setting up an NICU in a developing country, one has to face a number of problems and is bound down by many constraints.
- bind up in
They are completely bound up in the dictionary they are compiling.
- bind up with
Economic progress is closely bound up with educational development.
- binge(passive only)
- birthmark
- bite
Paine is bitten by lust.
I got bitten in a mail-order swindle. - bless
I'm blessed with good health.
- bless with
I'm blessed with good health.
- blood
She's just being blooded.
- blow on
His name has been blown on.
- blow upon
The character has been blown upon.
- board
I am to be boarded today, and am waiting to be called in at any moment.
- bog
The tanks were bogged down in the mud.
They were bogged down by overwork. - bomb out
Our city was bombed out.
We were bombed out during the Anti-Japanese War. - book out
The Capital Theatre is booked out.
- book up
The plane is booked up to its full capacity.
I'm afraid I can't come. I'm booked up all next week. - bound
The village is bounded on one side by a river.
- box
The favourite was boxed in against the rails by other cars.
- box in
His car was boxed in by two other cars on the final lap.
- box up
- brass off
I'm brassed off with the story.
- bruit
The news was bruited through the town.
- call away
The teacher was called away by the headmaster.
- cast away
The ship was cast away on the coast of Europe.
They were cast away on a desert island without food or water. - cast down
He was much cast down when he heard of his failure at the examination.
- cast over
His eyes were cast over with sorrow.
- cast up
Three bodies were cast up yesterday.
- catch
When I left Shanghai she had been caught.
- catch up in
She was caught up in the political scandal that broke in 1999.
- chargin
He was chagrined at his failure.
- chuck away on
Your advice is chucked away on that student.
- conceive
For, when the nation was conceived in liberty, it was not the liberty of all.
- concern
More than two students have been concerned in this affair.
- consternate
When he saw the mountain torrents rushing down with a devastating force, he was consternated.
- couch
- cramp
But I was cold, and my limbs were cramped and aching.
- cross wires
- cut out of the whole cloth
But they were all cut out of the whole cloth, and their connection to economic reality was tenuous at best.
- cut out of whole cloth
That story was cut out of whole cloth.
- damn
The action was damned from the start.
- deck with
The Christmas tree was decked with gifts.
- declare on
The rally has been declared on.
- deluge with
The brook was deluged with water.
- design
This fund is designed to help worthy students.
- destine
Their attempt is destined to failure.
- devour
She was devoured by jealousy.
- devour by
The children were devoured by curiosity.
He was devoured by cancer. - devour with
She was devoured with anxiety.
- dight
- dilapidate
The building had been dilapidated by neglect.
- disaffect
Her stand-up excels at capturing the mood of those disaffected by today's politics without mentioning the president.
- disbar
The lawyer was disbarred from practicing again.
- discombobulate
He was discombobulated.
- disenamour
They were disenamoured of working in America.
- distemper
- distort
Her face was distorted by pain.
- distract
He was distracted with fear.
- distribute
The students were distributed into four ranks.
Those plants are distributed into 15 classes. - distribute into
The process was distributed into four stages.
These animals are distributed into five genera. - disturb
She was disturbed by his strange behaviour.
- disuse
The entire line was disused by 1871 as were the collieries it served.
- dittograph
I suspect that some of them are dittographed.
- divorce from
He was divorced from his wife.
- do into
The Chinese poems were done into English.
- doom
She was doomed to die.
- doom to
She was doomed to oblivion.
- do up
I can't move any farther; I'm done up.
- drown out
Many families were drowned out by the recent flood.
- duffer
- dump
She was dumped from the company after making a big blunder.
- dump on
She has been dumped on too often.
- eat up
She was eaten up with pride.
- ecstasy
The crowd was again ecstasied.
- elbow aside
Jack's remarks set off rumours that he had been elbowed aside.
- elect
Particular persons, without any regard whatever to their merits or demerits, are elected, or rejected for ever.
- embay
He was still ignorant of the way in which his fleet was embayed in this marvelous water, and he ran across to the opposite shore.
Some cytoplasmic patches become embayed in the nucleus at these sites. - enact
This murder was enacted on Saturday night December 8th, 1877, just forty years ago.
- enamour
The dancer was enamoured of the princess.
- encamp
They were encamped in the tents.
The soldiers are encamped on the edge of the forest. - engage
Jack is engaged to Ann.
- engulf
The entire time, she'd been writing her own material, and played it at coffee houses around Edmonton when she wasn't engulfed in her studies.
- enmesh in
Detective Crowley was enmeshed in a mystery which he could not solve just then.
- enroot
All humans have to deal with death; it is enrooted in our existence and every one of us will come to the reflection about it.
- entrench
Ageism is entrenched in our society.
- enwomb
The babe after birth is, however, nothing else than the continuation of the babe that was enwombed and fed from the mother's blood.
I was enwombed in my car while the windshield wipers swiped at the ubiquitous rain. - equip
Every man was ready equipped at all times with the arms which corresponded to his rank.
- etch
Our last conversation is etched in my memory.
- exalt
The covenanters were very reasonably exalted with this success.
- example
Burke devoted himself to this duty with a fervid assiduity that has not often been exampled, and has never been surpassed.
- exemplify in
The use of the word is exemplified in the text.
- exercise
She was exercised in virtue.
I am very much exercised about the education of my daughter. - exercise in
She was exercised in virtue.
- express
A dominant gene may be defined as one that is expressed when present in a single copy.
- expropriate from
The land for the recreation area was expropriated from local farmers.
- famish
Some cheerfully presented their heads to be struck off, some expired under the torture, and some were famished to death.
- fate
It was fated that they should fail.
- feed up (with)
I'm fed up with this wet weather.
- fling together
Jim and Mary were flung together by the war.
- flush
The team was flushed with its first victory.
- flush with
He was flushed with success.
- fluster up
She was all flustered up just before the wedding.
- form into
The new train will be formed into the regular timetable from next Monday.
- glass over
The archway between the two buildings had been glassed over.
- goof
He was pretty goofed up that night.
- goof up
He was pretty goofed up that night.
- goose
If I've guessed wrong and Jason has found out right, then we're goosed.
- gorge
When fish are gorged with their morning meal of green drakes.
The kidneys are gorged and swollen. - grammaticalize
The position of the word within the sentence context is grammaticalized to a much higher degree in analytical than in synthetic languages.
- grammaticise
I am still undecided as to what degree tense is grammaticised in Hebrew, but I think the evidence is that it is.
- grow
The lawn was grown with weeds.
- gunge
- habit
She was habited in a pink dress.
- hang up
The plan has been hung up.
He is hung up about stepping out. - headquarter
The secret store is headquartered abroad.
- hitch
They will be hitched next month.
- hook
The chances are that he is hooked on opium, morphine or heroin.
- implicate
Your feelings have no doubt been much implicated by it.
- jam in
The drill is jammed in the wall and is subjected to the torque and force shown.
- lade
He was laden with misery after the death of his wife.
- lade with
The ship was laden with war materials.
He was laden with misery after the death of his wife. - lay alongside
The lifeboats were laid alongside the wreck to the sailors.
- lay away
His body was laid away in the grave, where our bodies shall decay.
- lay up
The old man was laid up with a severe stroke.
- lead astray
The teenage viewers are easily led astray by these commercials.
- leave over
The question of Hong Kong is left over by history.
- litter
The floor is littered with scraps of paper.
- load down
The truck was loaded down with bricks.
- load with
The tractor was loaded with strawberries.
- locate
The school is located next to the church.
- lock
Our village is locked with hills.
- lord
She refused to be lorded over.
- lose
Two ships were lost in the storm.
Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise. - made
- make out of the whole cloth
The defendant had made arrangements to kill hogs that morning; in all probability, his story about squirrel hunting is made out of the whole cloth, and not a word of truth in it.
- make out of whole cloth
That the lie is made out of whole cloth is evident by the fact, that while this alleged banquet was being.
- manufacture out of the whole cloth
- manufacture out of whole cloth
These incidents were manufactured out of whole cloth; they never occurred.
- maraud
It was marauded by merciless bands of savages, led, in some instances, by Frenchmen.
- mark
The leopard's skin is marked with black spots.
- mark out
One of the graduate entry has been marked out as “likely to succeed”.
- mark out for
The general practitioner who can do the same to his patients is marked out for success, and generally achieves it.
- marry
They are going to be married next month.
- miscast
The film is miscast.
- moider
- neap
Our boat was neaped.
- nescessitate
He was necessitated to leave Europe for America.
- niche
- number
The sick old man's days are numbered.
- nurse
He was nursed in London.
- obligate
Sir, I am obligated to leave you.
- oppose
- overcome
He has been overcome with sympathy.
- overdo
If you don't stop the boiling at the right tick the eggs are overdone or underdone.
- overspend
He has been overspent with the work.
- oversubscribe
Generally, when a stock is oversubscribed, you would expect to see it trade up at least for the first few hours.
- perfume
The air is perfumed with the rose flowers.
- perish
We were all perished with cold.
- peter
After a long desert journey the oxen became much petered.
- petrify
The eight caryatides were supposed to have been petrified by magic.
- poise
Masses of ice are poised at one moment and the next come crashing down.
- post
She is well posted on law.
- promise
She has been promised to Bill.
- quit of
She was very glad to be quit of her present job.
- rafter
- rain off
The football game was rained off yesterday and will be played on the following Saturday.
- rain out
The athletic meeting was rained out.
- raise one's eyebrows (at something)
- ramify
Highways were ramified all over the country.
- rap
- rate at
This building was rated at ￡2,000 a year.
- rate up
His insurance payments were rated up due to his poor health.
- ravish
Julius Caesar was ravished by Cleopatra's beauty.
- read out
The new salesgirl was read out of the shop.
- reduce
They were reduced to begging on the streets.
- reincarnate
He believed he might be reincarnated as a woman.
- repute
He was reputed to be a millionaire.
- rumour
She is rumoured to have been married in England.
- sacrament
If there He was a risen Christ, here He is sacramented; and while others are enjoying the fruits of peace, you remain in the war of the spirit.
- salary
He's salaried every week.
- seize
He was seized by panic and could not go where it was dangerous.
- sell
Come to think of it. I'm not too sold on this thing, anyway.
We are sold again! - set on
He's set on going to the college.
- set up
I'm well set up with reading matter.
- shag
He was shagged out.
- shock
I am currently 10 weeks, and got shocked by 440 volts at 5 weeks.
- situate
Holland is situated in the west of the Netherlands.
- slash
The dress was slashed to the waist.
- smite
Hath one of you a girl with whom he's smitten?
- snooker
- snow under
I was snowed under with my work.
- sock in
The airport was socked in.
- source
At the same time, Rover had trouble cutting costs through cheap imports, as many of its car components are sourced in the UK.
- space
- stick
My car was stuck in the mud.
- straiten
It's straitened in time.
- strand
He was stranded in the middle of nowhere.
- suppose
The motorbike is supposed to make annoying noise.
- surmount
The tower is surmounted with a spire.
- surplus
When was that old tank surplused out?
- sward
The playground of football has been swarded.
- taint with
His mind was tainted with evil thoughts.
The lake water is tainted with chemicals from the factory. - take
The old man was taken with a fit.
- take aback
I was taken aback by the news of his death.
- tank up
Frank got tanked up again last night.
- tear
Soon China was torn by a civil war between the remaining Communists and Jiang's forces.
- tee off
The boss was teed off when an employer was late.
- tell off
Twelve students were told off to do the cleaning.
- tenant
The house is tenanted by two Chinese students.
- throw back
Thus, as I hinted before, we are thrown back upon government support, and let us see the line the government is likely to take in the event of such a demand.
- thunderstrike
She was thunderstruck to hear the news.
- tie up
Martin and Jane got tied up in June.
- transport
The workers were transported with joy.
- traumatize
She was traumatized by an unfortunate experience in her childhood.
- vein
The countryside is veined by new broad highways.
- wash up
I feel washed up.
- whack
- whitewash
- wind up
The boy was all wound up before the game.
- wont
- work out
That old mine was worked out long ago.
