verb
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English verbe, directly from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), reinforced by Old French verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of verve and word.
Inflected forms:
form: verbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vb.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: v.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: verbs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: verbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: verbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: verbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: verb
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: verb
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: verbed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: verb
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: verbest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: verbed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: verbedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: verbs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: verbeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: verbed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: verb
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: verbed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: verb
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: verbed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: verb
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: verbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: verbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vb.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: v.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
pos: noun
examples: The word “speak” is an English verb.
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gloss: Any word; a vocable.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: a Verb of the Singular
gloss: An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.
gloss: A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
pos: noun
examples: You can invoke the Properties OLE verb in many ways. The easiest way is to move the mouse over the border of the control until it becomes only a four-way pointer and then right-click.
The InfiniBand verbs, which are closely modeled in the “Gen2” interface, provide the functional specification for the operations that should be allowed on an InfiniBand compliant adapter.
gloss: To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
nonstandard
transitive
examples: Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory, paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nouns verbed and adjectives adverbised. He techniqued a new way to vocabulary his thoughts so as to informationally uncertain anybody listening about what he had actually implicationed... .
I like to verb words.... I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you DO. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.
Nouns should never be verbed.
In English, verbing nouns is okay
Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed.
gloss: Used as a placeholder for any verb.
pos: verb
examples: For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ...
Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.
The sentence frame was Dan verbed Ben approaching the store. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by He went inside.
Synonyms: verb
action word
Related words: copula
workword
Derived words: abstract verb
action verb
adverb
attributive verb
auxiliary verb
boot verb
catenative verb
causal verb
concrete verb
control verb
copular verb
coverb
defective verb
definite verb
determinate verb
direct verb
ditransitive verb
dynamic verb
ergative verb
finite verb
full verb
guess the verb
helper verb
helping verb
HTTP verb
impersonal verb
indefinite verb
indeterminate verb
intradirective verb
intransitive verb
irregular verb
labile verb
lexical verb
light verb
linking verb
link verb
main verb
middle verb
modal verb
monotransitive verb
negative verb
non-finite verb
particle verb
phrasal prepositional verb
phrasal verb
potential verb
prepositional verb
preterite-present verb
preverb
progressive verb
pronominal verb
pro-verb
psych verb
regular verb
reporting verb
separable verb
shoe verb
stem-changing verb
strong verb
subject-verb agreement
substantive verb
transitive verb
vector verb
verbal
verbal complement
verbal noun
verbal regency
verb form
verb-framed
verb-framing
verb inflection
verbless clause
verb-object
verb of motion
verb phrase
verb tense
weak verb
weather verb
also: Thesaurus:verb
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