The Oxford English Dictionary traces the transitive-verb form of "to curate" – as in, "he curated a collection of hats" – to the performance-art scene of the early 80s.
The film's viewers, even those who have resisted the charms of Mr. Zuckerberg's company, will recognize the logic, both human and mathematical, that has turned the word "friend" into a transitive verb with a newly formed opposite.
For instance, any thinker who can think a complex thought of the form "X transitive verb Y" can think "Y transitive verb X".
The question is whether one respects the traditional distinction between transitive and intransitive verb forms.
Sit also means "make someone take a seat" (often figuratively) and, in this form, is a transitive verb that needs a subject and an object.
I should have been more specific: Latin does not have modal auxiliary verbs such as English can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would; the only auxiliary (but non-modal) verb in Latin is esse (to be) which is used to form the present perfect, future perfect and past perfect passive tenses of regular transitive verbs, and corresponding forms of deponent and semi-deponent verbs.
Disappear is a transitive verb for dictators.
For example, accuse is transitive; I (subject) accuse (transitive verb) you (object).
As a transitive verb, mitigate doesn't couple with against.
To "next" someone has become a common transitive verb.
