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adjective
1.
Designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning.



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... BE—gives a transitive signification, as in bespeak. It is sometimes intensive, as in bestir, and converts an adjective into a verb, as in bedim. Be, as a form of by, also denotes proximity, ...
— New Word-Analysis - Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words • William Swinton


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