This is a great question for artificial intelligence. This is how you would ask it: "Please give me a list of verbs, like 'eat', that take a direct object without ever allowing any indirect object." "Here's the list I got: drink, read, write, watch, hear, see, touch, smell, taste, wear, own, possess, retain, resemble." As is usually the case, the list that AI gave me is pretty good but imperfect. For example, these sentences are correct: "I read the book to Sally." "The room resembles a mess to me."

Every time before asking something from native speakers, I try to find out from AI and the Internet. This time I asked the AI ​​this question several times. In each answer, it provided different sets of verbs. Only 4 verbs, the ones I indicated in the question, remained unchanged I tried to ask it the question you formulated and, as in your case, I received a set of 14 verbs, 5 of which coincided with yours (read, write, hear, see, watch). When I asked it to expand the list, it provided the same set of verbs Sometimes it provides different answers to the same questions and this is deceptive