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verb¹
- /vɜːb/ UK
- /vɝb/ US
- /vəɹb/ Canada
- [vɚ(ɹ)b] Canada
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)b
Where it comes from
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.
noun verbs · vb. · v.
- A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being. The word “speak” is an English verb.
- Any word; a vocable. a Verb of the Singular
- 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. 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.
Similar: verb, action word
verb verbs · verbing · verbed · verb
- To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb. 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
- Used as a placeholder for any verb. For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ...
verb²
- /vɜːb/ UK
- /vɝb/ US
- /vəɹb/ Canada
- [vɚ(ɹ)b] Canada
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)b
Where it comes from
Clipping of reverb.
