1. an English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit; - Example: "`turn out' is a phrasal verb in the question `how many turned out to vote?'"
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
phrasal verb
n 1: 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?'"