intransitive verb

1. 1.

   a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object

   Synonymsintransitive verb formintransitive

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Questions about intransitive verb

What does intransitive verb mean?

intransitive verb means "a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object".

What is another word for intransitive verb?

Close synonyms include intransitive verb form, intransitive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is intransitive verb a common word?

intransitive verb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.