(of verbs )动词 used without a direct object opposite transitive不及物的 The verb ‘die’ as in ‘He died suddenly’, is intransitive. He died suddenly 中的动词 die 是不及物的。 The verb ‘die’, as in ‘He died suddenly’, is intransitive. He died suddenly 中的动词 die 是不及物的。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryIntransitive is used with these nouns:- verb
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from late Latin intransitivus ‘not passing over’, from in- ‘not’ + transitivus (from transit- ‘gone across’, from transire ‘go across’).