Verb Definition

vûrb

verbs

noun

The part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence in most languages.

American Heritage

Any of a class of words expressing action, existence, or occurrence, or used as an auxiliary or copula, and usually constituting the main element of a predicate (Ex.: give, build, run, be, happen, do, have, would, seem)

Webster's New World

Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, as be, run, or conceive.

American Heritage

A phrase or other construction used as a verb.

American Heritage

(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.

The word “speak” is an English verb.

Wiktionary

Synonyms:

verb

(nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.

Wiktionary

(used as a neutral, unspecific verb, often in linguistics and the social sciences) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.

Wiktionary

Synonyms:

Synonyms:
verbify

Other Word Forms of Verb

Noun

Singular:

verb

Plural:

verbs

Origin of Verb

Middle English verbe from Old French from Latin verbum word, verb (translation of Greek rhēma word, verb) wer-⁵ in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Old French verbe, from Latin verbum (“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Etymological twin of word.

From Wiktionary