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Transitive Verbs A - Z

A list of 2 words by librisx.

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A list--eventually, I hope, that will include and enclose ten thousand basic specimens of that part of speech we call 'verb' and that form of verb we call 'transitive,' (etym., "Sluggard, lift up the ass on which you sit slumpingly inert and cross over to an object that longs to be set in motion!"): verbs that ACT, as if cheetahs, by rushing directly at & pouncing upon an object or object noun. E.g., "He BAMBOOZLED me out of forty acres and a mule" or "You shouldn't WHACK your husband with an oak tree." A most royal list that haughtily will AVOID in-transitive verbs and imperiously ABHOR linked verbs, such as 'iz, arr, wuz, wirr, haz,' and other lazy, malingering, barely-morphemic, gray-ghostly substitutions for active verbs. One and all, feel free to add to the list.

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  • bilby commented on the list transitive-verbs-only

    abound is not necessarily transitive.

    'Corruption abounds in Indonesia.'

    Ditto barge.

    'Franky barged into the room.'

    etc.

    July 20, 2011

  • librisx commented on the list transitive-verbs-only

    Wordnik user "bilby" remarks that some verbs on my list are "not necessarily transitive." He cites "abound" and "barge." Actually, he has identified two words that are not transitive at all and do not belong on my list: 'abound' and 'barge,' As verbs, they are ONLY intransitive. So, thanks, Bilby.

    But his main point that some verbs (quite a few, in fact) can be used both transitively and intransitively I've been aware of since I started my list. My list's purpose is not to isolate those verbs which are only transitive but rather to populate a list of as many A - Z English transitives regardless of shared use as intransitive verbs or as other parts of speech.

    Since transitive verbs constitute the "action verbs" of our speech and writing, and since textbooks and style books on writing encourage us to use them, I decided that at least ONE adequate list should exist (and be findable) on the Internet. Astoundingly, my own search for such a list online produced zero results.

    If any wordniker locates a substantial alpha list of transitive verbs on the Web, please inform me. Or if, as did Bilby, any wordniker spots a mistaken entry, please inform me. Last, if in my progress through the alphabet I neglect to list a transitive verb, please supply it.

    July 20, 2011

  • blafferty commented on the list transitive-verbs-only

    This list might be more useful if you list each word separately. Useful in that you would be able to add or delete words individually, rather than delete and rework the entire A or B list.

    July 20, 2011

  • blafferty commented on the list transitive-verbs-only

    Also, here's a list, although I don't know if it's complete. Certainly the format it's in is not very useful.

    July 20, 2011

  • librisx commented on the list transitive-verbs-only

    Blafferty 1) Thanks for the suggestion, but I definely want English transitives strung together like rosary beads so that each one illuminates the others--also because a Wordnyk technician is soon going to make available an editing tool that will allow me to delete or add a verb anywhere in my alphabetic list.

    blafferty 2) Thanks for the list! No, it doesn't list all the transitives, but it's a longer list than I myself was able to find.

    July 21, 2011