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adj. Designating a verb or verb construction that does not require or cannot take a direct object, as snow or sleep.

n. An intransitive verb.

adj. Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object.

adj. Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained.

adj. Not passing farther; kept; detained.

adj. 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.

In grammar, not expressing an action that passes immediately over to an object; not taking a direct object: said of verbs that require a preposition before their object, or take one only indirectly, or in the manner of a dative: as, to stand on the ground; to swim in the water; to run away.

Not transitive, in the logical or mathematical sense.

n. In grammar, a verb which does not properly take after it an object, as sit, fall, run, lie.

In grammar: Noting the case which expresses the subject of the intransitive verb or the object of the transitive verb.

In Eskimo gram., noting the thing possessed. Also called objective.

n. a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object

adj. designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object

"His theory, which consisted of four major stages and multiple substages, also set the ground rules for future stage theories: they are hierarchical, in that later stages grow out of earlier ones, and they are intransitive, that is, unable to be reordered."

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