1. a verb whose agent performs an action that is directed at the agent; - Example: "the sentence `he washed' has a reflexive verb" - Example: "`perjure' is a reflexive verb because you cannot perjure anyone but yourself"
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
reflexive verb
n 1: a verb whose agent performs an action that is directed at
the agent; "the sentence `he washed' has a reflexive verb";
"`perjure' is a reflexive verb because you cannot perjure
anyone but yourself"