verb
noun
\ ˈvərb
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Definition of verb
(Entry 1 of 2)
: 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
verb
verb
verbed;
verbing
Definition of verb (Entry 2 of 2)
: 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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Other Words from verb
Noun
verbless
\ ˈvər-bləs
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adjective
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adjective
Examples of verb in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
During the first three weeks, as students chanted verb conjugations and ate oatmeal in the courtyard of the school’s low-slung yellow buildings, four more disappeared. — Natalie Keyssar, National Geographic, "How this quiet region in Guatemala became the epicenter of migration," 26 July 2019 In Hoang's world, cubing is a verb and a calming practice. — Lisa Bonos, Dallas News, "Romance novelist Helen Hoang writes about love on the autism spectrum," 23 July 2019 The verb fight is transitive here and does have an object. — Quanta Magazine, "Solution: ‘The Bulldogs That Bulldogs Fight’," 16 May 2019 At least disrupt started off as a compact, muscular verb, an implicit call to arms. — Gregory Barber, WIRED, "Angry Nerd: Come On! We Can't 'Decentralize' Everything!," 24 June 2019 Vow Mad Libs Print out traditional vows, leaving blanks for nouns, verbs, and adjectives. — Heather Hall, Harper's BAZAAR, "10 Bridal Shower Game Ideas You Won't Hate Playing," 5 June 2019 For people of a certain generation, that was MTV‘s celebrity prank show Punk’d, whose title has become a verb in its own right. — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, "MTV launching reimagined Punk'd and Singled Out for Jeffrey Katzenberg's Quibi platform," 4 June 2019 Arguably one of the crown jewel properties of the Eastern seaboard, the Ocean House is the embodiment of summer, the verb. — Hannah Seligson, Town & Country, "The Best Room At," 8 Mar. 2019 Instead, the word can only be described by playing cards that contain nouns, verbs, adjectives, and relations. — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, "Eight great board games we played at PAX Unplugged," 8 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'verb.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for verb
verb
noun
English Language Learners Definition of verb
grammar
: a word (such as jump, think, happen, or exist) that is usually one of the main parts of a sentence and that expresses an action, an occurrence, or a state of being
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verb
noun
\ ˈvərb
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Kids Definition of verb
: a word that expresses an act, occurrence, or state of being
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