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   verb

   /vəːb/

   noun

   • 1. a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

   verb

   • 1. use (a word that is not conventionally used as a verb, typically a noun) as a verb: "any English noun can be verbed, but some are more resistant than others"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French verbe or Latin verbum ‘word, verb’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. verbless adjective

   Scrabble Points: 9

   • V

     4

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

   • B

     3

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