Can you solve the tricky chess rebus puzzle below by ciphering the hidden meaning?

Which English verb becomes past tense just by rearranging the letters?

What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

I taste better than I can smell. Who am I?

The more it dries, the wetter it becomes. Can you tell what it is?

There is something which is always coming but never arrives?

There are 2 cops parked along a one-way street looking for traffic violations. They spot a taxi driver going in the wrong direction, yet they do nothing.

Why?

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Like you see, some letters have gone missing from these words that contain the IE pair at some or the other place. The letters that will be used to fill the blanks are given below. Use them and form meaningful words. Can you do that?

A, C, D, F, H, K, L, M, N, N, O, R, R, S, S, S, T, T, Y and Y.

People put me on the table and cut me but do not eat me. What am I?

I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth, I am dissolved into air. What am I?