Definition of Intransitively

1. Adverb. In an intransitive manner. "You can use the verb `drink' intransitively, without a direct object"

Partainyms: Intransitive
Antonyms: Transitively

Definition of Intransitively

1. adv. Without an object following; in the manner of an intransitive verb.

Definition of Intransitively

1. Adverb. (grammar) In an intransitive manner; without an object following. ¹

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Definition of Intransitively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intransitively

intransigeances
intransigeant
intransigeantly
intransigeants
intransigence
intransigences
intransigency
intransigent
intransigently
intransigents
intransitive-verb
intransitive verb
intransitive verb form
intransitive verbs
intransitively
intransitiveness
intransitivise
intransitivity
intransitivize
intransmissible
intransmutability
intransmutable
intransparent
intrant
intrants
intranuclear
intranuclearly
intranucleosomal
intraobserver error

Literary usage of Intransitively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Grammar of the New Testament Greek by Alexander Buttmann (1873)
"... as well as from referring to analogous instances of the use of the same verbs by other writers. We find the following used thus intransitively ..."

2. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"... to assemble, in common use amongst the Elizabethan writers, and employed four or five times by Shakespeare himself. The verb is used intransitively as ..."

3. Practical Lessons in English Grammar and Composition by Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender (1910)
"EXERCISE 29 Use these verbs transitively and intransitively : — EXAMPLE : He broke the window. The rope broke. shake spread blow increase freeze pass grow ..."

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