Not too long ago, we gave you 50 awesome verbs beginning with ex, and we promised you a Part 2 with more! Well, here it is: 40 more verbs beginning with ex. Why 40 and not 50 this time? Because we thought it would be fun if you came up with another 10 yourselves. Leave your suggestions in the comments section, and let’s make it 50! You can view verbs beginning with ex, Part 1, here once you’ve read the new ones below.
- Experiment: to test or try
- Expiate: to absolve of guilt or make amends
- Expire: to come to an end, die, or breathe out
- Explain: to make something known or understood, or to demonstrate knowledge or understanding
- Explicate: to explain, describe, or analyze in detail
- Explode: to burst, give forth suddenly, or suddenly accelerate or increase
- Extinguish: to eclipse, nullify, quench, or put out
- Extirpate: to cut out, destroy, or uproot
- Extol: to glorify or praise highly
- Extort: to obtain by force, intimidation, or improper pressure
- Extract: to draw out, remove, or select
- Extradite: to deliver a fugitive from one jurisdiction to another
- Extrapolate: to infer, expand on, or predict from known information
- Extravasate: to cause to escape from a vessel or channel, especially in a surgical or medical context
- Extricate: to free or remove from difficulty, or to disentangle
- Extrude: to press or push out, or to shape by forcing through a die
- Exuberate: to demonstrate unrestrained joy or vitality
- Exude: to discharge, diffuse, spread out, or display obviously
- Exult: to rejoice greatly
- Exploit: to utilize, make full use of, or take advantage of
- Explore: to analyze, investigate, study, test, or travel through
- Export: to carry, remove, or send goods or services to another place or country
- Expose: to make known, show, reveal, or subject to the elements or to view
- Exposit: to explain or set forth in detail; see expound
- Expostulate: to reason earnestly with someone, especially in protest or objection
- Expound: to explain, interpret, argue, comment on, or state in detail
- Express: to force out, show, symbolize, offer feelings or opinions, or perform in order to demonstrate artistry or communicate creative material
- Expropriate: to deprive someone of property, or to take another’s property for one’s own use
- Expulse: to expel or drive out
- Extend: to put or send out, lengthen, expand, or offer
- Extenuate: to mitigate, lessen, or reduce the strength or seriousness of something
- Exteriorize: to bring out from inside, especially in a surgical context
- Exterminate: to get rid of completely or kill
- Externalize: to make external, make manifest, or attribute to outside causes
- Exit: to go out or leave
- Exonerate: to clear from blame, accusation, or responsibility
- Exorcise: to drive out an evil spirit or get rid of something troublesome
- Expand: to enlarge, spread, increase, or develop
- Expatiate: to speak or write at length, or to wander freely
- Expatriate: to banish, leave one’s native country, or withdraw from residence or allegiance
