3.163 verbs of causing

If you want to say that someone or something causes a person or thing to have a particular quality, you can use one of a group of transitive verbs, with an adjective as the complement.

• He said waltzes made him dizzy.
• They're driving me crazy.
• Then his captor had knocked him unconscious.
• She painted her eyelids deep blue.
• He wiped the bottle dry with a dishcloth.

Here is a list of verbs which can be used in this way:

• cut, drive, get, knock, make, paint, pat, pick, plane, render, rub, send, shoot, sweep, turn, wipe

Most of these verbs can have only one adjective or a very small range of adjectives as their complement. However 'make' and 'render' can be used with a wide range of adjectives.