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TRANSITIVE VERB FORM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
Synonyms:
transitive; transitive verb; transitive verb form
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("transitive verb form" is a kind of...):
verb (the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transitive verb form"):
doubly transitive verb; doubly transitive verb form (a transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object)