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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Verb \Verb\, noun [F. verbe, L. verbum a word, verb. See {Word}.]
1. A word; a vocable. [Obs.] --South.
2. (Gram.) A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.
Note: A verb is a word whereby the chief action of the mind [the assertion or the denial of a proposition] finds expression. --Earle.
{Active verb}, {Auxiliary verb}, {Neuter verb}, etc. See {Active}, {Auxiliary}, {Neuter}, etc.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
noun
1: a word that serves as the predicate of a sentence
2: a content word that denotes an action or a state
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