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ALL meanings of verb

verb
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  • noun verb any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object. 1
  • countable noun verb A verb is a word such as 'sing', 'feel', or 'die' which is used with a subject to say what someone or something does or what happens to them, or to give information about them. 0
  • noun verb (in traditional grammar) any of a large class of words in a language that serve to indicate the occurrence or performance of an action, the existence of a state or condition, etc. In English, such words as run, make, do, and the like are verbs 0
  • noun verb a word or group of words that functions as the predicate of a sentence or introduces the predicate 0
  • noun verb (as modifier) 0
  • noun verb any of a class of words expressing action, existence, or occurrence, or used as an auxiliary or copula, and usually constituting the main element of a predicate (Ex.: give, build, run, be, happen, do, have, would, seem) 0
  • noun verb (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state. 0
  • noun verb (Obsolete (No longer in use)) Any word; a vocable. 0
  • verb verb (Transitive Verb) (nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb. 0
  • verb verb (used as a neutral, unspecific verb, often in linguistics and the social sciences) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb. 0
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