intransitive

IPA: ɪntrˈænsʌtɪv

(grammar, of a verb) Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object.
(rare) Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained.
(probability) Of a set of dice: containing three dice A, B, and C, with the property that A rolls higher than B more than half the time, and B rolls higher than C more than half the time, but lacking the property that A rolls higher than C more than half the time. See intransitive dice.

Examples of "intransitive" in Sentences

An "intransitive" verb, of course, is one that acts on its own, without an object.
There is an 'intransitive' element in us, a habit of doing things that have significance.
The verb "lie" (prone or at rest) is intransitive, meaning, as you well know it, cannot have direct objects.
Some transitive verbs have English meanings which do not differ in form from the "intransitive" English verbs to which they are related
I'd say that the only difference between the verb "se souvenir" (intransitive) and the verb "se rappeler" (transitive) is in the construction.
English it is generally intransitive, meaning to be careful or thoughtful; it is from the Anglo-Saxon 'Carian'; it became obsolete in the seventeenth century.
I did learn that the F-word can be used as a verb transitive or intransitive, as well as compound, adverb, adjective, command, interjection and noun -- often in a single sentence.
His theory, which consisted of four major stages and multiple substages, also set the ground rules for future stage theories: they are hierarchical, in that later stages grow out of earlier ones, and they are intransitive, that is, unable to be reordered.