The phrase "alternative verb" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different verbs that can replace a specific verb in a sentence or context.
Example: "In this sentence, you can use an alternative verb like 'assist' instead of 'help' for a more formal tone."
Alternatives: "substitute verb" or "replacement verb".
The same two verbs, "throwing" and "tossing," account for almost all the results under searches for the phrase "[verb] + 'coins in a fountain'": 5,360 for "throwing" and 2,590 for "tossing". Alternative verbs, such as "dropping" or "chucking," got fewer than 10 results, and verbs like "pitching," "depositing," and "lobbing" didn't get any.
After reviewing the training corpus for relation trigger terms, we retrieved not one but many variants of the same relation trigger occurring in alternative verb-phrase groups.
Not too long ago, man up was simply an alternative to the verb man, in the sense of "to supply with adequate manpower".
An alternative derivation is that Nico comes from nǽcan, an Anglo-Saxon verb meaning "kill".
Certain DEC F-key verb names have alternative spellings, e.g. \KDecF05 = \KdecF5.
Technically, Montague treats the de dicto/de re alternative produced by an intensional verb as a scope ambiguity based on the position of the quantifier used to represent a unicorn in predicate calculus.
Tromba is the Italian word for trumpet, but the verb trombare has an alternative slang meaning.
And, often, a very lucrative verb, dressing up everything from alternative medicines to anti-aging products.
Thus, 'the shell was fired towards the tank' is effortlessly accepted as meaningful, despite the two nouns and the verb having a number of alternative meanings.
To control for the any negative correlation between the existence/frequency of an un- form and the frequency of pre-empting alternatives, the pre-emption measure was residualized against verb type and un- form frequency.
