verb
/vɜːb//vɝb/
noun
- 1
(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.
“The word “speak” is an English verb.”
- 2
Any word; a vocable.
- 3
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.”
- 4
A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
verb
- 1
To use any word that is not, or had not been a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
- 2
(used as a neutral, unspecific verb) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
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