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TRANSITIVE VERB
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Dictionary entry overview: What does transitive verb mean?
• TRANSITIVE VERB (noun)
The noun TRANSITIVE VERB has 1 sense:
1. a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
Familiarity information: TRANSITIVE VERB used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
transitive; transitive verb; transitive verb form
Hypernyms ("transitive verb" is a kind of...):
verb (the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transitive verb"):
doubly transitive verb; doubly transitive verb form (a transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object)
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