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action verb
noun
, Grammar.
- a verb, as run, think, or soothe, that expresses something that a person, animal, object, or process in nature can do, as in Close the door! or The storm is flooding many houses along the coast, rather than expressing a state of being. Compare copula ( def 2 ), stative.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of action verb1
First recorded in 1875–80
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