Action
//ˈæk.ʃən//
Word Type
Noun
Verb
Intj
Adjective
The word "action" can be used as noun, verb, intj and adjective.
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ActionScript Peabody action Phineas action actant action adventure action doll action figure action film action game action group action hero action hoe action house action item action man action movie action noun action painter action painting action plan action point action potential action replay action research action song action space action sport action star action stations action teaching action verb action word action-forcing action-packed actionable actional actionee actioner actionfest actionism actionist actionize actionless actionlet actionlike actionness actions speak louder than words actiony actious after-action all talk and no action alternate action apefirmative action back action backaction bioaction bolt action bolt-action call to action capillary action cause of action chose in action civil action class action class-action coaction collective action counteraction course of action cowboy action shooting cross action double action double-action ecoaction enemy action evasive action falling action false action galvanic action general intelligent action geriaction get action grand action holding action hyperaction in action inaction industrial action job action jump into action killed in action labor action labour action leap into action legal action lever action lights, camera, action live action lost in action man of action material action microaction misaction missing in action no further action no-action letter nonaction out of action overaction party to the action permissive-action link piece of the action plan of action play-action pass police action popular action positive action pre-action preaction principle of least action pump action put into action quantum of action radius of action rearguard action reflection-in-action reflection-on-action repose in action representative action retroaction rising action romaction secondary action self-action shareholders' derivative action slide action spooky action at a distance spring into action stop-action subaction suit the action to the word superaction swing into action take action thing in action unaction underaction unity of action western action shooting zone of action
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Has Property
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Receives Action
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achievement acting activity affair battle brush carry through case combat conflict contest course deed doing enacting encounter energy exercise fable feat force influence instrumentality lawsuit legal action measure military action movement natural process pay performing playing procedure process prosecution rencontre representation representing skirmish subject suit turn
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