Phrasal verb
What are phrasal verbs?
A phrasal verb is a verb plus a preposition or adverb which creates a meaning different from the original verb.
A.
Add up: make sense
Ask out: invite on a date
Add up: calculate a sum
Ask over: invite to one's home
B.
Bumped into: to meet accidentally
Brush: to improve
Born out: fulfilled
Blow up: burst
Back up: give support
Bear on: have to do with
Bear with be patient
Blow in: visit unexpectedly
Blow over: pass without creating a problem
Break in: interrupt
Break up: end a relationship
Bring around: change someone's mind, convince someone
Bring on: cause something
C.
Come across: to see accidentally
Called in on: to visit a sick person
Calm down: relax
Check over: examine
Came round: regain consciousness
Cut through: interrupt
Call up: telephone
Care for: like someone or something
Carry on about: continue in an annoying way
Check in: enter a hospital, hotel
Check on: make sure something is OK
Check out: leave a hotel, hospital
Cheer up: make someone feel cheerful
Clean up: tidy
Come back: return
Come out: appear
D.
Do over: repeat
Draw up: create
Do without: manage without something one wants or needs
Dress down: dress casually
Drop in: visit someone unexpectedly
Drop over: visit someone casually
E.
Eat in: eat inside the home
Eat out: eat outside the home
Eat away: gradually destroy
F.
Fed up with: to be boring
Found out: discovered
Fall off: decrease
Fall through: fail to happen
Fill in: complete
Find out: discover
G.
Get out of: leave
Get on well: to be friendly with
Get used to: get habit
Get in touch: to contact
Grown up: adult
Get over: cover
Gave up: stop
Got off: start
Get away with: escape without punishment
Going on: happening
Go on about: to keep
Got over: to beat
Get at; implying
Going up: raise
Get around: go many places
Get in: enter
Get off: leave
Get on: put on (clothes)
Go down: decrease
Go off: become angry
H.
Hand back: return
Hang around: stay in a place for fun
Hang up: put down the telephone receiver
Have on: wear
Have over: invite guests to your home
Hit on: find on accident
Hear of: know about something or somebody
Hold on: tell someone to wait on the telephone
I.
Iron out: eliminate
J.
Jack up: to rise
Joke around: to be humorous
Jump in: enter a conversation
Jump to: make a quick, poorly thought out decision
K.
Keep at: not give up
Keep away: prevent access to
Keep on: continue
Keep out: prevent from entering
Kick back: sit or lie back
Kick in: begin taking effect
L.
Look up: to find
Look forward: to have a look
Look out: be careful
Let down: disappoint
Lay out: arrange
Let out: release
Light up: to smoke
Live on: survive from
Look after: take care of
M.
Make up: cosmetic
Make do: to manage
Made to most of: exploiter
Make out: understand
Make over: do again
N.
Name after: name a child using another family member's name
Nod off: fall asleep
Nose around: sneak around
O.
Occur to: pop into one's mind, come to one's mind
Open up: share feelings
Out to + verb: try to
P.
Put off: to post pone
Put him up: to keep
Put him out: distract
Pass out: consciousness
Pulled up: stop
Point out: indicate
Picked out: chosen
Put up with: to tolerate
Pan out: be successful
Pass on: die
Pick out: choose
Play down: make less important
Pull down: earn
Q.
Quiet down: be quiet
R.
Rang up: call him by phone
Run away from: escape from
Run down: hit with a car
Run off: make leave
Read up on: research a topic for a reason
S.
Stand for: means
Settled down: make home
Save up: accumulate (money)
Sell out: tell on someone
Slow down: make move more slowly
Stand by: wait
T.
Take it out: blame me
Turned on: turn against
Turn up: to come
Takes after: resemble
To get out of: avoid
Taken for: thought to be
Taken in: cheated
Turn him down: reject
Take on: handle
Take up: practice
Turn out: became
Take to: to get used to
Told him off: scolded
To see eye to eye: agree
U.
Use up: use all of something
V.
Veer away from: stay away from, avoid
W.
Went on: go on
Work out: solve
Wake up: awaken someone
Wash up: clean one
Watch out: be careful
Wind up: finish
Work out: write out
Write down: every word or letter solve
X.
No phrasal verbs beginning with "X."
Y.
Yak on: to continue talking in an annoying way
Z.
Zero in on: discover
Zip around: move quickly from place to place
Zone out: stop paying attention
Zoom in: focus
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الخميس أغسطس 07, 2008 11:31 pm
