action verb
nounGrammar.
a verb, as run, think, or soothe, that expresses something that a person, animal, object, or process in nature can do, as in Close the door! or The storm is flooding many houses along the coast, rather than expressing a state of being.: Compare copula (def. 2), stative.
Origin of action verb
1First recorded in 1875–80
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