passive voice

1. 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 (synset 113825643)
   "`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice"; "`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive"
   is a type of: voice - (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
   same as: passive

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