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copular verb (plural copular verbs)

(grammar) A verb that links a subject to a complement that refers to the subject.

Examples
That soup smells* delicious.* He was* soaked to the skin.* Your proposal sounds* good to me.*

Complements that follow copular verbs are typically adjectives or participles.
The most important copular verbs are to be and to become.
Other copular verbs, which usually have the sense of to be perceived as or to become: appear, feel, get, go, keep, grow, lie, look, prove, remain, run, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, turn