adverb

plural adverbs

1. abbreviationadverbgrammarA word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.

   manner adverb

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   322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.

   1844, E. A. Andrews, First Lessions in Latin; or Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, 6th edition, Boston, page 91

   ‘Fortunately your papa appreciates it; he appreciates it immensely’—that was one of the things Miss Overmore also said, with a striking insistence on the adverb.

   1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew

2. abbreviationadverbcomputingIn the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine.

present singular third person adverbs · participle present adverbing · participle past adverbed · past adverbed

1. rareTo make into or become an adverb.

   Considering these postpositional phrases to be adverbed phrases would be an insufficient analysis, since the postpositions are determined by the verb.

   1973, Indian Linguistics, volume 34, page 241

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   Even if, in the case of native speakers of English in particular, bonded adverbed verbs are always understood and used as entities, the different stages of théir formation are probably those I have just described.

   1998, English linguistics

   Then, post-adverbially, they start over again from Square One, explaining that queer name of hers and who and where she is and what's going on here besides adverbing.

   2005, John Barth, The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories, page 8

   Synonyms: adverbialize