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  • noun grammar The form of a transitive verb in which its subject receives the action.
  • noun proscribed Any construction that obscures the agent of an action, or the agency of said agent.

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  • noun the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb

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