"The disease originated in Britain" not "The disease originated."

[Vladv1]

I have read that after some verbs we usually add a complement - a phrase which completes the meaning of a verb -noun or adjective.

The disease originated in Britain
( The disease originated.)

Could you please list some verbs used in this way please?

 

[Tarheel]

"The disease originated in Britain" is a complete thought. The other is not.

No examples readily come to mind.

 

[jutfrank]

There are too many to list so it probably makes more sense to focus on ones that don't. All transitive verbs, for example, take a direct object complement.

Why don't you try to give us some examples? Make sure you write full sentences.

 

[Biopolitics]

An example crossing my mind: how to use he verb to escape? Is it (in)transitive?
For instance:
I hardly escaped from my ex-girlfriend
or (less likely): I hardly escaped my girlfriend
I successfully escaped from an enamy drone
or: I successfully escaped an enemy drone
Unfortunately, the big cake served at the party escaped from me
UNnortunately, the big cake served at the party escaped me (meaning that the whole cake had been wolfed down by others before I reached it)

 

[jutfrank]

An example crossing my mind: how to use he verb to escape? Is it (in)transitive?

Often, yes, depending on meaning.

To simplify, I usually explain this by saying that the direct object is the thing you're escaping from where the object of 'from' is the place where you want to leave.

I escaped an enemy drone.
I escaped from an enemy drone.

The drone is the 'thing'.

I escaped from prison.
I escaped prison.

Prison is the place.