Saanich Verb Database

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aboriginal, First Nations, Indian, native act proud, acting proud, being a snob add, get added, get included, put in admire after, past, last again, more, repeat angry appear, shine, come out, show up, showed arrive ask, asking, asked back up bad bake, roast, barbeque, cook, get baked, barbecued, roasted, cooked bark (of dog) bathe be calm be home be in pain, hurt, hurting, dry be relied on, rely be true, genuine, really mean something believe, believing bend, get bent bend, get bent, doubled over between, squeeze between big bite, get bitten (e.g., by mosquito) black blanket blow horn, have horn blown, blowed blow, blowing, blown boil, get boiled boring box, boxed brag, bragging break, breaking, get broken, getting broken break, get broken breathe hard because you’re angry/mad breathe, breath bring bring, get brought bump, hit head on, get bumped burn, get burned, make fire burp bury, plant, get buried, get planted, burying, planting busy cannot, be impossible, not like canoe race, go upstream cause someone to do something, make someone do something, get made to do something change (?) chew, get chewed, chewing climb, get taken up, get walked up, get carried up close close, get closed coffee cold, cool (of food/drink) cold, cool (of weather) come come out, come through come to life, be alive, let live come to understand, know, learn, think, figure out come together, gather cook cool, cold copy correct, straighten, get corrected, straightened cough count, get counted crawl, crawling crazy crooked, twisted, make crooked, twist cry cut dark deep, under, below deny desire, wish for, admire, find mouthwatering die, be killed, kill different, mixed up, don’t match, not matching dip, get dipped disturb, move, get disturbed, get moved do, fix, cause, make, get done, fixed, made do, make, prepare, get prepared do, say dream drift, drifting dry, drying, get dried easy eat enough, alright, okay escape, get better, heal fall apart fall apart, break, get broken fall asleep, sleeping fall down, fall over, get knocked over fall forward fall from height, get knocked off far, far away, go far feel with hands fierce, swift (water), scary fight fill, get full find finish, get finished finish, quit, alone, only finish, stop fish (verb), go fishing fly foam forget freeze, get frozen friend, relative fry, get fried full of food get amazed get brought, bring, have get chased get covered, get packed up, pack up, cover get crossed, cross, crossing (legs) get disturbed, disturb, disturbing get done, do get down, descend get eaten, eat get embarrassed, ashamed get finished, finish get finished, finish get hurt, be in pain, get sick, ill get left get near, approach get pumped (of gun) get put up, go on top get scared get sick, ill get slaughtered, die out get spread get startled, frightened getting irritated give, get given gnawing pain, sore go along, go with go away go first go home go in go in water, fall in water go into the bush go numb go off shore go on board, be aboard go on, go ahead and do something go out (of light, fire), get extinguished go out in water go out, get out, go outside, be taken outside go to go to sleep, sleeping, sleepy go up go, be going to, gonna good, kind, generous, clear, friendly grow hand, lower arm happy hard hatch, get hatched, sober up heal heavy, big help, helping, be helped hesitate hide, get hidden hide, hidden hit with an object hug, be hugged hungry hunt ducks, hunting ducks, duckhunt hurry, rush immerse in water, get immersed, drown, be drowned injure, get injured jump key, lock, latch kick kiss, get kissed knock, knocking land (on water), be capsized laugh, smile lazy leak learn, find out, come to know, understand let go let someone have something, obey lie (i.e. tell a lie) lie down lift, get lifted, be lifted, raised, raise light listen, hear log, wood long long time look for, seek, get sought, search for loosen, get loose lose, get lost loud make mistake, do by accident married melt, get melted mix, get mixed move, moving new no, negative particle old one one’s own, belonging to one open (as in blooms) open, unlock, get opened, get unlocked out of breath, breathing pretty hard paddle pay, get paid pay, get paid (rent) peel, get peeled, peeling (peels easily, e.g., orange) pet, caress pick berries, berry-pick, picking berries pierce, bore a hole, go through a channel/crowd pile up, get piled up pit-lamp play play cards, playing cards pry, get pried, prying push, get pushed put away put down put down, turn down, lessen, get turned down put in oven, bake, baking, heat up, heating up put on top of something, go on top of something put on, putting on rain rain and flood rattle, be rattled, rattling, ring, ringing reach, get near, get close read, reading really hard (as in rain) recognize, recognise, get recognized, recognizing, recognising red remember respected, rich rest ring rise to surface roll over, roll out, get rolled rotten rotten, go rotten, decompose (of wood, tree) run, running say something/anything, saying something/anything, speak, speaking scatter school score a goal score a goal, shoot on goal search, look through see, look, watch send, get sent, sending sensible shake, get shaken shiny short show, be shown, showing, point out, have something pointed out shut up similar to, like, like this sing sit down, get up, be at home slip slow small, little smart, skilled sneak, stalk, sneaking, stalking, getting stalked, go after, going after sneeze snore, snoring snow falling, snowing snow on ground spill, tip over, pour, get spilled, get poured, get tipped over, get tipped out splash, splashing spoil, spoiled, look away, mean squash, squish, get squashed/squished, getting squashed/squished squeeze, press, squeezing, pressing, get squeezed, get pressed stand up stop (of snow or rain) stop doing something stop, stopping stretch, get stretched, straighten, get straightened sun, shine swallow, get swallowed sweat sweep, get swept sweet swim take off, get taken off take off, get taken off take out, get taken out take, grab, get taken, find, get, hold, grasp, have talk, speak teach, be taught tear, get torn tell stories tell, get told, say thank, be thanked, thanking thick think/thought something was the case throb, throbbing tighten, get tight tired toast towards, in the direction of towards, in the direction of trip, hook try hard try, train, practice turn around turn around, turn over, turn inside out turn over use, get used valuable, valued, important, difficult, want, need wait, be awaited wake up, waken, awake walk warm, hot wash, clean, get washed, get cleaned watch water, drink wave, waving, waved at wet white whittle, peel, get peeled wide win, winning, won, beat someone, lose, losing, lost, be made to lose windy wipe, get wiped wish for (food), find mouthwatering work, working worry, worries, worrying wrap, get wrapped, wrapping, wind up, get wound, winding write, get written wrong, do something wrong wrong, mixed up, mix up yawn yell, shout, call