Making normally intransitive verbs transitive
Not too long ago someone posted here asking about the transitive use of "disappear": to disappear someone is to kidnap or murder them without leaving a trace.
Someone else brought up a similar example in "volunteer": If you're volunteered for a job, you aren't doing it willingly even though you technically had a choice.
With both of these, there is an implication that things aren't what they appear to be. There also may be deceit involved. (If you disappear someone you want it to appear that they just vanished, cause unknown, rather than specifically be the victim of foul play. If you volunteer someone, the duty appears to be optional but really isn't?)
What I'm wondering is if you can think of any other examples in English where a normally intransitive verb is used transitively, and whether or not the transitive usage has similar meanings to the above.
I'm also curious about if other languages do this at all. Does your language have anything like this?
(I don't mean verbs that are commonly used as both transitive and intransitive. I mean ones where the intransitive use is so much more common that the transitive use will be quite marked.)
Someone else brought up a similar example in "volunteer": If you're volunteered for a job, you aren't doing it willingly even though you technically had a choice.
With both of these, there is an implication that things aren't what they appear to be. There also may be deceit involved. (If you disappear someone you want it to appear that they just vanished, cause unknown, rather than specifically be the victim of foul play. If you volunteer someone, the duty appears to be optional but really isn't?)
What I'm wondering is if you can think of any other examples in English where a normally intransitive verb is used transitively, and whether or not the transitive usage has similar meanings to the above.
I'm also curious about if other languages do this at all. Does your language have anything like this?
(I don't mean verbs that are commonly used as both transitive and intransitive. I mean ones where the intransitive use is so much more common that the transitive use will be quite marked.)