- (a.) Not passing farther; kept; detained.
- (a.) Not transitive; not passing over to an object; expressing an action or state that is limited to the agent or subject, or, in other words, an action which does not require an object to complete the sense; as, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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| MLA | Webster's. "intransitive" 27 May 2011. Web. 23 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/intransitive/definitions/2023205> |