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verb

/vɝb/

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What does verb mean?

noun

  1. A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
  2. (figuratively) An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
  3. A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
More meanings (4)

verb

  1. To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
  2. Used as a placeholder for any verb.

noun

  1. Reverb.
  2. (obsolete) Any word; a vocable.

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IPA pronunciation

/vɝb/

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Feto itself is from an old verb feuere, "to generate, to produce," possibly related to fui and our be.
Alexander Francis ChamberlainThe Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-DayProject Gutenberg ebook #7966
What a structure of little monosyllabic and disyllabic forms is added to the verb and to the substantive, in the Coptic language!
Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé BonplandPersonal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1Translated by Thomasina RossProject Gutenberg ebook #6322
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When at last I dozed, in sheer exhaustion of mind and body, it became a vast shadowy verb which I had to conjugate.
Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsProject Gutenberg ebook #1400
Mana is not only a force, it is also an action, a quality, a state, at once a substantive, an adjective, and a verb.
A. C. (Albert Charles) SewardDarwin and Modern ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #1909
He supposed that native term, which he found and did not introduce, to be a derivative from the verb BAIA, or BIAI, 'to make.'
K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) ParkerThe Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in AustraliaProject Gutenberg ebook #3819