Intransitive Verb: A Short List of 100 Useful Intransitive Verbs in English

Learn intransitive verb in English!!! Here is a list of common intransitive verbs in English with some intransitive verb examples.

Intransitive Verbs

This is a useful intransitive verb list for ESL learners.

• Act
• Adapt
• Crawl
• Dance
• Erupt
• Escape
• Expand
• Explode
• Fade
• Fall
• Fast
• Float
• Fly
• Gallop
• Grow
• Jump
• Kneel
• Lead
• Lean
• Leap
• Learn
• Left
• Limp
• Listen
• March
• Mourn
• Move
• Panic
• Party
• Pause
• Peep
• Pose
• Pounce
• Pout
• Pray
• Preen
• Read
• Recline
• Relax
• Relent
• Rise
• Roll
• Run
• Rush
• Sail
• Scream
• Shake
• Shout
• Sigh
• Sit
• Skip
• Slide
• Smell
• Snarl
• Soak
• Spin
• Spit
• Sprint
• Squeak
• Stagger
• Stand (can also be transitive)
• Swim
• Swing
• Twist
• Wade
• Walk
• Wander
• Wave
• Whirl
• Wiggle
• Work
• Yell
• Agree
• Play
• Eat
• Appear
• Arrive
• Belong
• Collapse
• Collide
• Die
• Demonstrate (can also be transitive)
• Disappear
• Emerge
• Exist
• Go
• Happen
• Laugh
• Nest
• Occur
• Remain
• Respond
• Roost
• Fell (can also be transitive)
• Sleep
• Vanish
• Lie
• Sing
• Caught
• Tell

Intransitive Verb Examples

• She grew up to be a farmer.
• Malik slept all day.
• Samantha arrived ten minutes late.
• When the magician reached into his hat, a rabbit appeared.
• Kevin fell and scraped his knee.
• The crowd demonstrated outside the theatre.
• The jackdaws roost in these trees.
• To escape the midday sun, the cats lie in the shade under our cars.
• James went to the campus cafe for a steaming bowl of squid eyeball stew.
• In the evenings, Glenda sits on the front porch to admire her immaculate lawn.
• I don’t want such a thing to occur again.
• I like people who make me laugh in spite of myself.
• He would disappear for weeks on end.
• What time will we arrive in Tokyo?
• There’s a time to work and a time to play.
• She asked where he’d been, but he didn’t respond.
• You have to remain in till the weather improves.
• He was fool enough to agree.
• It’s easy to swim if another holds up your head.

List of Intransitive Verbs | Infographic

Useful List of Intransitive Verbs