Transitive Verbs That End in AD

Explore 87 verified English transitive verbs ending with the suffix -AD, including Read, Head, Lead, Bread, Spread, Glad and Download. Useful for clear sentence construction and active voice writing and rhyming patterns, browse these action words that take a direct object below or study direct object patterns and examples in our verb grammar guide.

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Starts with A
1 words
autoload
bread
bead
behead
brad
beglad
blacklead
bestead
backload
bespread
bemad
betread
clad
cheerlead
colead
cohead
copyread
counterplead
download
dread
deadhead
delead
despread
dispread
disload
Starts with E
2 words
englad
embread
Starts with F
2 words
frontload
foreread
Starts with G
2 words
glad
goad
Starts with H
2 words
head
homestead
Starts with I
2 words
interplead
implead
Starts with K
1 words
knead
lead
load
lipread
mislead
misread
masthead
muckspread
misplead
mistread
misdread
overload
offload
overspread
outspread
onload
outread
outlead
overread
overclad
overgoad
pad
plead
proofread
preload
read
railroad
reload
reread
retread
reclad
rethread
replead
respread
spread
spearhead
stead
subhead
sightread
speedread
Starts with T
2 words
thread
tread
upload
unload
unthread
underload
underread
untread
unhead
unlead
uplead
Starts with W
1 words
wad

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