Transitive Verbs with TEN

Browse 132 verified English transitive verbs containing the letters TEN, including Content, Sentence, Extend, Tend, Attend, Contents and Intend. Filter these action words that take a direct object by word length below, or study direct object patterns and examples in our verb grammar guide.

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Starts with A
3 words
attend
attenuate
affrighten
Starts with B
3 words
brighten
batten
britten
Starts with C
14 words
content
contents
contend
countenance
contented
christen
chasten
concatenate
contendere
catenate
coextend
coattend
copperfasten
catenulate
Starts with D
7 words
discontent
distend
dishearten
discountenance
disquieten
depotentiate
detenebrate
Starts with E
10 words
extend
enlighten
extenuate
enhearten
existentialize
embrighten
ensweeten
enchasten
enfasten
engreaten
Starts with F
6 words
frighten
flatten
fasten
fatten
foreshorten
feasten
Starts with G
2 words
greaten
guesten
Starts with H
5 words
heighten
handwritten
hasten
hearten
hyperextend
Starts with I
5 words
intend
intensify
intenerate
incatenate
intensate
Starts with K
1 words
kitten
Starts with L
3 words
lighten
lightening
laten
Starts with M
4 words
moisten
miscontent
misintend
mistend
Starts with N
1 words
neaten
Starts with O
5 words
overextend
overtighten
oversweeten
obtend
outsweeten
Starts with P
11 words
pretend
patent
portend
potentiate
premoisten
potentialize
protend
posttension
potentize
presweeten
plenipotentiarize
Starts with Q
1 words
quieten
Starts with R
10 words
rechristen
resentence
refasten
relisten
retighten
remoisten
righten
reshorten
resoften
ratten
Starts with S
19 words
sentence
soften
straighten
shorten
smitten
sweeten
stent
stencil
sweetening
smarten
superintend
subtend
stenotype
stenograph
stouten
straiten
salten
sustentate
sighten
Starts with T
14 words
tend
threaten
tension
tender
tense
tent
tenant
tighten
tenure
tenured
tenderize
tenon
tauten
tenter
Starts with U
5 words
unfasten
untent
untenant
unchristen
undercountenance
Starts with W
3 words
whitening
whiten
weeten

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