verb
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Pronunciation
[change]Noun
[change]- (countable) A verb is a kind of word that usually tells about an action or a state and is the head of a sentence. In English, verbs are the only kind of word that changes to show past or present tense. See verb examples.
Verb
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Plain form |
Third-person singular |
Past tense |
Past participle |
Present participle |
- To verb a word is to turn it into a verb.
- The word "access" used to just be a noun, but then it got verbed.
Related words
[change]- auxiliary verb
- coverb
- defective verb
- ditransitive verb
- helping verb
- impersonal verb
- intransitive verb
- irregular verb
- lexical verb
- linking verb
- modal verb
- phrasal verb
- preverb
- regular verb
- serial verb
- stative verb
- strong verb
- transitive verb
- verbal
- verbose
- weak verb
- action
- being
- state
- state of being
- movement