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intransitive

 adjective
     
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in‧tran‧si‧tive technical
SLG an intransitive verb has a subject but no object. For example, in the sentence 'they arrived', 'arrived' is intransitive. Intransitive verbs are marked [I] in this dictionary [≠ transitive]
—intransitively adverb
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