How to pronounce“verb”in English
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Definitions of “verb”
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”
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 actually implicationed... .”
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," ...”