Originally Posted By: Humpty D.
They've a temper, some of them -- particularly verbs, they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs -- however, I can manage the whole lot of them!


All one needs to do to rassle even the proudest verb to the ground is to convert it to a phrasal verb. There's not a single verb but it can be subdued by a simple particle.