| elaborate | (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, rarify, refine |
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| (verb) work out in detail | Synonyms: work out |
| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| (verb) produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product | - |
| elapse | (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
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| elate | (verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift |
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| elbow | (verb) shove one's elbow into another person's ribs | - |
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| (verb) push one's way with the elbows | - |
| elect | (verb) choose | - |
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| (verb) select by a vote for an office or membership | - |
| electioneer | (verb) work actively for a political candidate or a party | - |
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| electrify | (verb) equip for use with electricity | Synonyms: wire |
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| (verb) charge (a conductor) with electricity | - |
| (verb) excite suddenly and intensely | - |
| electrocute | (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: fry |
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| (verb) kill by electric shock | - |
| electroplate | (verb) coat with metal by electrolysis | - |
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| elegise | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegize |
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| elegize | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegise |
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| elevate | (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: lift, raise |
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| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, get up, lift, raise |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
| elicit | (verb) derive by reason | - |
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| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, evoke, extract |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| elide | (verb) leave or strike out | - |
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| eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
| (verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
| elocute | (verb) declaim in an elocutionary manner | - |
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| elongate | (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: stretch |
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| elope | (verb) run away secretly with one's beloved | Synonyms: run off |
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| elucidate | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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| (verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clarify, clear up |
| elude | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, evade |
| (verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by | Synonyms: escape |
| elute | (verb) wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography | - |
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