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verb

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noun

: a word that characteristically is the grammatical center of a predicate and expresses an act, occurrence, or mode of being, that in various languages is inflected for agreement with the subject, for tense, for voice, for mood, or for aspect, and that typically has rather full descriptive meaning and characterizing quality but is sometimes nearly devoid of these especially when used as an auxiliary or linking verb
verbless adjective

verb

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verb

verbed; verbing

transitive verb

: to use (a word and especially a noun) as a verb : to make (a word) into a verb
A television announcer in Vero Beach, Fla., spoke of a promise "to upkeep the beach," thus verbing a word that had been in use as an honest noun since 1884. James Kilpatrick
But it is by no means unusual for a noun to be verbed. Theodore M. Bernstein

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What is a verb?

Verbs are words that show an action (sing), occurrence (develop), or state of being (exist). Almost every sentence requires a verb. The basic form of a verb is known as its infinitive. The forms call, love, break, and go are all infinitives.

Almost all verbs have two other important forms called participles. Participles are forms that are used to create several verb tenses (forms that are used to show when an action happened); they can also be used as adjectives. The present participle always ends in -ing: calling, loving, breaking, going. (There is also a kind of noun, called a gerund, that is identical in form to the present participle form of a verb.) The past participle usually ends in -ed, but many past participles have irregular endings: called, loved, broken, gone.

The verb's past tense usually has the same -ed form as the past participle. For many verbs, however, the past tense is irregular. An irregular past tense is not always identical to an irregular past participle: called, loved, broke, went.

The two main kinds of verbs, transitive verbs and intransitive verbs, are discussed at the entries for transitive and intransitive.

Example Sentences

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Noun
Mechanical updates like this feel like Naughty Dog went back to their original creation and infused a tangible way of evoking unease using the all-powerful verb rather than weaving it into the narrative. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2022 That is when Artbag, the go-to store for ladies who lunched (when lunch was a verb) and who needed their choicest handbags repaired and restored for those tony lunches, leaves town. New York Times, 15 June 2022 The verb to groom was initially used in the 19th century, first in terms of currying (brushing) and feeding horses. Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2022 The noun tapa and its verb, tapear, appeared in the Real Academia Española dictionary for the first time in 1936. Todd Pitock, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022 For its many flaws, the world of cryptocurrency has bequeathed to the English language a vivid new verb: rug pulling. Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022 Halachah is not a noun but a verb, a pathway to infuse all our actions with kedushah – observing not only the letter of the law but the holy higher purpose of the law. Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 2 May 2022 The woman, gathering reality from the people in the house, from the corner, from being the object of a verb and the subject of an adjective, raised her eyes and looked levelly. Shirley Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022 Okoruwa is hoping the new service catches on with young people enough to become a verb, a la Google or Uber. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English verbe, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin verbum "word, verb" — more at word entry 1

First Known Use

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1928, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of verb was in the 14th century

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