3.63 food, movement, vehicles

There are many other ergative verbs which relate specifically to certain areas of meaning. For example, there are a number which relate to food and cooking, others which describe physical movement, and others which involve a vehicle as the object of the transitive verb or the subject of the intransitive verb.

• I've boiled an egg.
• The porridge is boiling.
• I'm cooking spaghetti.
• The rice is cooking.
• The birds turned their heads sharply at the sound.
• Vorster's head turned.
• She rested her head on his shoulder.
• Her head rested on the edge of the table.
• She had crashed the car twice.
• Pollock's car crashed into a clump of trees.

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Here is a list of verbs relating to food, physical movement, and vehicles:

• bake, boil, cook, defrost, freeze, fry, melt, roast, simmer, thicken, --- , balance, drop, move, rest, rock, shake, spin, stand, steady, swing, turn, --- , back, crash, drive, fly, park, reverse, run, sail