patient role
Noun
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The semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause (synset 106343129)
is a type of: participant role, semantic role - (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clausesame as: affected role, patient
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