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passive voice is a noun meaning "the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb". It carries one recorded sense.
the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb
“`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice”
“`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for passive voice come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.