English
passive
adjective
Meaning 1
Accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance.
Meaning 2
Denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to the active form he killed them).
Meaning 3
Denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to the active form he killed them).