Verbs that start with T

Talking is making words with your mouth and tongue. When babies are born they cannot talk, and they gradually learn how to talk in the first few years of their life.

You tangle long, thin things together when you twist and entwine them around each other in a chaotic manner. Things that are tangled together are hard to get apart.

Threshing is a process where the edible seeds of a grain plant are separated from the inedible chaff. Generally this is done by a process of beating the grain, so the seeds detach and fall out.

You tickle someone by poking them or running something like your fingers or a feather over their skin. Tickling feels funny and makes you laugh and squirm.

It is almost impossible to tickle yourself. Children tend to be much more ticklish than adults. People are usually ticklish under their feet and on their ribs.

A toot is the sound a horn makes, or anything that sounds similar to that noise.

You tow something when you pull it behind you. When people talk about towing, they usually mean something attached behind a vehicle like a car. When people go camping, they often tow a caravan or trailer.

You tread when you put your foot down onto something, usually while you are walking.
Tread might refer to other things like the pattern on a tyre or the bottom of your shoe.

A trickle is a thin stream of water. A trickle is slightly more than a drip but much less than a full stream of water. The waterfall in the picture is only trickling because there hasn't been much rain.
A trickle is often used to describe a small amount of something passing by, as in "he was earning a trickle of money from his second job".

A trot is a gait of a horse where its legs move in opposite pairs. A trot is faster than a walk but slower than a canter or gallop. Other animals and people that run in a similar way to the way a horse trots are also said to be trotting.

When you tug on something, you pull very hard to move it.