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As a noun, verb means a word that indicates an action, event, or state of being. As a verb, it means use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
Meanings of verb
7 meaningsnoun
grammarA word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
“The word “speak” is an English verb.”
figurativeAn action as opposed to a trait or thing.
“Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.”
programmingA named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
The word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence
Older and rare meanings (1)
obsoleteAny word; a vocable.
verb
nonstandardcolloquialTo use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
used as a neutralunspecific verboften in linguisticsthe social sciencesTo perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).