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verbs

  • plural
    of verb.
    verb
    noun
    any 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.

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Patterns of neural activity revealed that the brain could distinguish different parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

From Science Daily Jun. 29, 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

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

Nouns and verbs occasionally do not match in tense.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2025

I do my homework— choose five verbs and conjugate them.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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