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# (''grammar, of a verb'') Not [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transitive transitive]: not having, or not taking, a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/direct_object direct object].

# (''grammar, informal'') Describing a verb that does not act on anything — the action stays with the subject and goes nowhere. In "she sleeps" or "he runs", nothing is being slept or run; the verb is '''intransitive'''.

# (''grammar, informal'') Describing a verb that does not act on anything; the action stays with the subject and goes nowhere. In "she sleeps" or "he runs", nothing is being slept or run; the verb is '''intransitive'''.

# (''rare'') Not [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transitive transitive] or passing further; kept; detained.

# (''probability'') Of a set of [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dice 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitive_dice intransitive dice] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitive_game intransitive game].

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 # (''grammar, of a verb'') Not [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transitive transitive]: not having, or not taking, a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/direct_object direct object].
-# (''grammar, informal'') Describing a verb that does not act on anything — the action stays with the subject and goes nowhere. In "she sleeps" or "he runs", nothing is being slept or run; the verb is '''intransitive'''.
+# (''grammar, informal'') Describing a verb that does not act on anything; the action stays with the subject and goes nowhere. In "she sleeps" or "he runs", nothing is being slept or run; the verb is '''intransitive'''.
 # (''rare'') Not [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transitive transitive] or passing further; kept; detained.
 # (''probability'') Of a set of [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dice 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitive_dice intransitive dice] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitive_game intransitive game].