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verb
See also Verb
  • (noun)
    1. A word that indicates an action, an event or a state.
      The word “speak” is an English verb.
  • (verb)
    1. To use any word that is not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
      • a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3
        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... .
      • 1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning LATEX, p8
        Nouns should never be verbed.
      • 2005 Oct 5, Jeffrey Mattison, Letters, in The Christian Science Monitor, p8
        In English, verbing nouns is okay