Verbs that start with C

You clothe someone (or yourself!) by either providing them with clothes, or dressing them.

You come to someone or somewhere when you leave the place you are now and move to the other person. The dog in the picture is coming to his owner. The opposite of come is go. The past tense of come is came.

Something is compact if it fits into a small space. The car in the picture is a compact car. You can compact something when you compress it together so it takes up less space, for example you might compact the ground before you lay pavers on it.

A cook is someone who prepares and cooks food for a living. A cook in a higher class restaurant is usually called a chef. Cooking is also the process of preparing food to eat by using heat, for example you need to cook potatoes before you can eat them.

You count things so you know how many of them you have. The child in the picture is counting a handful of pebbles.