verb
noun
- class of words that, from the semantic point of view, contain the notions of action, process or state, and, from the syntactic point of view, exert the core function of the sentence predicate.
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /vɜːb/ / /vɝb/ / /vəɹb/
noun
Etymology: Clipping of reverb.
- Reverb.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English verbe, directly from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), reinforced by Old French verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of verve and word.
- To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
“Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory, paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nouns verbed and adjectives adverbised. He techniqued a new way to vocabulary his thoughts so as to informationally uncertain anybody listening about what he had actually implicationed... .”
“I like to verb words.... I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you DO. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.”
- Used as a placeholder for any verb.
“For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ...”
“Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.”