Intransitive Verbs That End in VE

Explore 165 verified English intransitive verbs ending with the suffix -VE, including Have, Give, Live, Leave, Move, Believe and Love. Useful for concise clause building and grammar analysis and rhyming patterns, browse these complete action verbs that stand without a direct object below or compare transitive and intransitive sentence structures in our verb grammar guide.

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Starts with A5 words
arrive
achieve
approve
autosave
apperceive
Starts with B
2 words
believe
behave
Starts with C22 words
curve
cave
conceive
crave
carve
cove
concave
contrive
cleave
calve
connive
countermove
convolve
coevolve
codrive
convive
commove
cheve
chieve
circumvolve
coderive
coinvolve
Starts with D20 words
drive
drove
deserve
dive
derive
deceive
dissolve
disapprove
delve
disbelieve
devolve
disimprove
disinvolve
deave
deleave
duckshove
decurve
dissave
disleave
derve
Starts with E6 words
evolve
engrave
estive
exsolve
electroengrave
enrive
Starts with F
1 words
forgive
Starts with G5 words
give
glove
grieve
groove
gainstrive
Starts with H4 words
have
hive
heave
halve
Starts with I4 words
improve
interweave
incurve
intervolve
Starts with J
1 words
jive
Starts with K
1 words
keeve
Starts with L4 words
live
leave
love
lave
Starts with M11 words
move
microwave
misbehave
misperceive
misconceive
misbelieve
misgive
misobserve
mismove
misdrive
mislive
Starts with N
1 words
nosedive
Starts with O7 words
observe
overachieve
overlive
outcurve
overgive
oversave
overlove
Starts with P5 words
prove
perve
premove
presolve
photoengrave
Starts with Q
1 words
quacksalve
Starts with R22 words
receive
remove
resolve
retrieve
revive
rave
revolve
relive
rove
recurve
reeve
reave
rive
redrive
resave
reweave
redissolve
reshave
reobserve
regive
restrive
rereeve
Starts with S24 words
save
serve
survive
solve
slave
shave
starve
strive
shove
swerve
shelve
stave
sieve
skydive
skive
shrive
subserve
swive
slive
spokeshave
stive
screeve
scrive
steeve
Starts with T
2 words
thrive
thieve
Starts with U11 words
unalive
underachieve
unweave
upheave
unbelieve
upcurve
unlive
unglove
unreeve
unreave
updive
Starts with V
1 words
volve
Starts with W3 words
wave
weave
wive

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