verbs

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English

Definitions

noun

(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.“The word “speak” is an English verb.”
Any word; a vocable.
An action as opposed to a trait or thing.“Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.”
A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.

verb

To use any word that is not, or had not been a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
(used as a neutral, unspecific verb) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.

Related words

Synonyms

words copulas actions predicates verbals auxiliaries modals dynamics processes statives intransitives transitives imperatives participles gerunds infinitives

Associated

stative inflect intransitive perfective ablaut preterite tenses infinitive transitive aorist adverbs conjugated

Rhymes

herbs curbs perturbs disturbs blurbs erbes kerbs serbs zirbes

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