Thesaurus: intransitive

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1. a. Not passing farther; kept; detained.
2. a. Not transitive; not passing over to an object; expressing an action or state that is limited to the agent or subject, or, in other words, an action which does not require an object to complete the sense; as, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs.
3. adj. designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object
4. n. a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object
5. Not transitive; not passing over tas, an intransitive verb, e.g., the bird flies; the dog runs.
6. j:100 a. designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object