verbs
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The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
verbnounany member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.
Example Sentences
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For the uninitiated, Mad Libs is a decades-old word game in which players fill in the blanks of a prewritten story with random adjectives, nouns, and verbs before reading the surrealist results out loud.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
"I had prepared a lesson on imperative verbs," Piantino, who also works as a teacher with other players and coaches from Brazil and abroad, recalled.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
"But at the same time, when we apply mental verbs to machines, there's also a risk of blurring the line between what humans and AI can do."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026
She renders the fearless quality of Gehry’s work in vivid verbs, pointing out that if Wright “broke open the box in his Prairie homes, Frank Gehry has ruptured the building-as-box completely—destroyed it in fact.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
I explain that verbs in Arabic form roots that create trees of nouns and word structures.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
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