Sekirov Dictionary

verb

UK /vɜːb/US /vɝb/

noun 5
verb 2
forms 6

noun5

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A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
- The word “speak” is an English verb.
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(figurative) 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.
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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. — 1995
Reverb.
(no longer used) Any word; a vocable.

verb2

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(informal, nonstandard) To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
- 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. — 1993
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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," ... — 1946

forms

verbed · verbedst · verbing · verbeth · verbs · verbest

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