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transitive verb

noun

Etymology

Coined between 1580 and 1590.

Definitions

  1. A verb that is accompanied (either clearly or implicitly) by a direct object in the…

    A verb that is accompanied (either clearly or implicitly) by a direct object in the active voice. It links the action taken by the subject with the object upon which that action is taken. Consequently, transitive verbs can also be used in the passive voice when the direct object of the equivalent active-voice sentence becomes the subject.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for transitive 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