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Word: verbal (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
  • Consisting of words only.
  • Expressly spoken or written, as opposed to implied.
  • grammar Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
  • grammar Used to form a verb.
  • Of, or relating to words.
  • Spoken and not written; oral.

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Noun:

  • grammar A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.

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Verb:

  • transitive|British|Australia To fabricate a confession

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