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• n  a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
• a  designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning

• You talk about how winning strategies aren't transitive.
• It is a transitive verb of the first conjugation, regularly inflected (e.
• Edmund Spenser should perhaps have been flogged for anticipating the TVese use of host as a transitive verb.

• transitive verb
• transitive verb form

• intransitive

News & Articles

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• We Need to Do Something to Keep Brewer Away From Obama
  We've been through this before and our governor managed to embarrass herself (and through some variation on the transitive property, the state of Arizona) in the process by wagging her finger and scolding the President of the United States as if she were a out-of-control second grade teacher. However, Jan Brewer is trying to put herself in the position to pull the same stunt again : … [ Read ...
  Aug. 2, 2013 - Tucson Weekly

Quotes

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• Stephen Colbert in Myrtle Beach Sun News
  Debating - as Colbert called it - the "transitive property of Huckabee," Stewart was eventually roped in, having hosted O'Brien on his MTV program "The Jon Stewart Show" in 1994.
• Merlin Mann in Slate
  You need to break down each noun into tiny little transitive verbs,says Mann.
• Steven Pinker in guardian.co.uk
  Think of the transitive verbs for sex ...... fuck, screw, hump, ball, dick, bonk, bang, shag, pork, shtup,Pinker writes in one typical section. "They're not very nice, are they?"