EGAVE

intransitive

About 0.68 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object.
    The word "drink" is a transitive verb in "they drink wine", but an intransitive one in "they drink often."
  2. adjective Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained.
  3. adjective Of a set of dice: containing three dice A, B, and C, with the property that A rolls higher than B more than half the time, and B rolls higher than C more than half the time, but lacking the property that A rolls higher than C more than half the time. See intransitive dice and intransitive game.
  4. noun An intransitive verb.

Similar words

intr unergative unaccusative impersonal nontransitive untransitive nonpredicate transitive nonaccusative noninflectional

Often followed by

verbs verb and clauses or subject clause in use

Word family

intransitively intransitiveness intransitivenesses intransitivities intransitivity

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