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What does intransitive mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word intransitive? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (grammar) not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object
  2. (rare) not transitive or passing further; kept; detained
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Moral actions are unlike other actions in that they have both transitive and intransitive effects.
In particular, similar patterns exist for other cases of verbs combining with intransitive prepositions.
The object of knowledge is intransitive, the knowledge we have of it is transitive.
When did it become cooler to be an intransitive verb than a transitive verb?
While the pivot of an intransitive clause is the core-argument of the verb, the pivot of a transitive clause is not its agent but its patient.
The real challenges always came with the sophisticated adjectives, the adverbs, and the intransitive verbs.

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