Term: passive voice: the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb
Candidate hypernym: voice: (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes → 1
Candidate hypernym: antiseptic: a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues → 0
Candidate hypernym: nazification: social process of adopting (or being forced to adopt) Nazism → 0
Candidate hypernym: reallotment: a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) → 0
Candidate hypernym: rydberg's penstemon: plant with whorls of small dark blue-violet flowers; Washington to Wyoming and south to California and Colorado → 0
Candidate hypernym: subcontractor: someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor → 0
Candidate hypernym: moehringia: low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and Arctic northern hemisphere: sandworts; distinguished from members of the genus Arenaria mainly by having four-petaled rather than five-petaled flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: tarmacadam: a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving → 0
Candidate hypernym: mercifulness: a disposition to be kind and forgiving → 0
Candidate hypernym: serow: short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of southern and southeastern Asia → 0
Candidate hypernym: muscovy duck: large crested wild duck of Central America and South America; widely domesticated → 0