Which are the strictly transitive verbs in English?
These have been suggested as some of them:
attain, attribute, cause, comport, delineate, depict, eclipse, impute, induce, portray, predecease, resemble, squelch, subsume, supercede, utter
Could those ever sound good if appearing without an object - or with the object as implicit?
How about abandon as a candidate for strict transitivity?
?"Where necessary, we must not merely revise, we must abandon."
"Discard"?
?*The company eventually decided to discard.