(Dilbilim) An English verb complex consisting of a verb and one or more following particles and acting as a complete syntactic and semantic unit, as 'look up' in 'She looked up the word in the dictionary" or 'She looked the word up in the dictionary'
A phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and an adverb or preposition, for example `shut up' or `look after', which together have a particular meaning. An English verb complex consisting of a verb and one or more following particles and acting as a complete syntactic and semantic unit, as look up in She looked up the word in the dictionary or She looked the word up in the dictionary. a group of words that is used like a verb and consists of a verb with an adverb or preposition after it, for example 'set off' or 'look after'. In this dictionary, phrasal verbs are marked 'phr v'
an English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit; "`turn out' is a phrasal verb in the question `how many turned out to vote?'