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1. Adjective

Not passing farther; kept; detained.

2. Adjective

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.

3. Noun

a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object
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