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defective verb

noun

Definitions

  1. A verb with an incomplete conjugation

    A verb with an incomplete conjugation; for example, one that can only be conjugated in certain persons and numbers.

    • The verb can is defective in most English dialects, as it lacks an infinitive.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for defective verb. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA