Verbs starting with "Ex" make for awesome words, and there is such a huge amount it beggars belief. We picked 50 of our favorites, noted down their meanings, and made an awesome list so you can improve and expand your verb usage. It's probably a bit much to take in one go, so why not learn two a day and add them to your grammar armory slowly. Watch out for part 2, which will include another list of exciting "Ex" verbs...oops that was another.
- Excise: to remove by cutting or as if by cutting
- Excite: to arouse or stimulate
- Exclaim: to cry out passionately or vehemently
- Exclude: to bar, or to prevent entrance or inclusion
- Expunge: to destroy or to strike out
- Expurgate: to remove something objectionable
- Exscind: to cut off or out
- Exsert: to throw out
- Exsiccate: to dry
- Extemporize: to improvise
- Excogitate: to devise
- Excommunicate: to bar from membership
- Excoriate: to abrade or censure
- Excuse: to forgive or remove blame from or to justify or make an apology for
- Execrate: to denounce
- Execute: to carry out or perform
- Exacerbate: to make worse
- Exact: to call for and obtain (“exact revenge”)
- Exaggerate: to overemphasize or overstate
- Exalt: to glorify or intensify
- Examine: to inspect, investigate, or scrutinize
- Exasperate: to aggravate or enrage
- Excavate: to remove or expose by digging or as if by digging
- Exceed: to be greater than or to go beyond a limit or normal boundary
- Excrete: to discharge or eliminate
- Excruciate: to torture
- Exculpate: to clear of blame or fault
- Except: to keep out or to object
- Excerpt: to take out or select, especially writing, for other use
- Exchange: to trade
- Exemplify: to embody or make an example of
- Exempt: to set apart or release from a requirement
- Exenterate: to disembowel
- Exercise: to practice, train, or put to use
- Exert: to put forth effort
- Exfoliate: to cast off or remove
- Exhale: to breathe out
- Exhaust: to wear out
- Exhibit: to show or demonstrate
- Exhilarate: to refresh or stimulate
- Exhort: to appeal to or to warn
- Exhume: to disinter or to rectify neglect
- Exile: to drive out
- Exist: to continue to be or to have being
- Expect: to await or to suppose
- Expectorate: to discharge or spit
- Expedite: to cause to occur quickly, or to dispatch or issue
- Expel: to eject
- Expend: to spend, use up, or utilize
- Experience: to learn or sense by direct participation or observation
