Phrasal verbs and their definition
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| Ask after | Ask news about something
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| Back down | Withdraw from a project or proposition; no longer give support to something
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| Back out | Decide not to complete something you agreed to; fail to keep a promise
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| Bank on | Depend on something happening or on someone doing something
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| Bend down | Move to the top part of your body forwards and downwards
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| Break down | Stop working; cause to collapse, destroy
Have a physical or mental collapse
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| Break out | Start suddenly or abruptly
Emerge, escape
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| Bring forward | Change the date or time of an event to an earlier moment
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| Bring in | Introduce a new law or system
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| Bring on | Be the cause of something bad, especially an illness
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| Bring out | Produce a new product and start to sell it
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| Bring up | Look after a child until he or she becomes an adult
Start discussing a subject
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| Call off | Cancel an event that had been planned or had already started
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| Carry on | Continue doing an activity that was already in progress
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| Catch on | Become popular or fashionable
Understand, usually after initial difficulty
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| Chase after | Follow someone or something quickly in order to catch them
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| Close down | Stop doing business or operating permanently
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| Come (a)round | Happen or take place again
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| Come (a)round to | Change your opinion or a decision
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| Come across | Find something or meet someone by chance
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| Come by | Get something, especially something that is hard to get
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| Come down with | Become ill with a particular disease, usually not a serious one
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| Come forward | Offer help or information
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| Come into | Become in possession of, usually through an inheritance
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| Come off | Happen or turn out to be successful
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| Come on | Make progress or develop
Start to be broadcast
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| Come round | Pay a visit, mostly used when going to someone’s house
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| Come round (to) | Regain consciousness
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| Come up with | Think of something such as an idea or a plan
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| Cross out | Draw an X or line through writing indicating that it is wrong, something has been cancelled or a task has been completed
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| Cut down on | Start doing less of something, usually because it isn’t good for your health
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| Cut off | Stop the supply of something – as a result something may stop working (for example, due to lack of electrical power)
Make a place difficult or impossible to enter, leave or communicate with (for example, due to roadwork)
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| Dawn on | Realize about something for the first time
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| Die down | Become much less noisy, powerful or active; wither away; lose strength
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| Do away with | Get rid of something
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| Do up | Repair, paint and improve an old building, car, boat, …
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| Drop off | Start to sleep
Take someone to a place in a car, usually without getting out of the car yourself
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| Drop out | Leave something such as an activity, school or competition before you have finished what you intended to do
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| Drown out | Prevent a sound from being heard by making a louder noise
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| Fall for | Believe that a trick or a joke is true
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| Fall out | Stop being friendly with someone because you have had a disagreement with them
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| Fill in | Add information such as your name or address in the empty spaces on an official document
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| Flick through | Leave through; turn the pages of a magazine, newspaper, leaflet of book very quickly and looking at them only briefly
Quickly look through the tv channels so as to see what’s on
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| Get away | Go somewhere different from where you live so as to rest or spend a short holiday
Take a break from routine
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| Get back | Return to a place
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| Get by | Have just enough of something (such as money or knowledge) so that you can do what you need to do
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| Get down | Make someone feel sad or lose hope
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| Get on for | Be almost a particular time, number, age, etc.
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| Get on | Like each other and are friendly to each other
Getting fairly old (said of people)
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| Get through | Use or finish something
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| Give away | Show an emotion or quality that you are trying to hide
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| Give off | Emit, send forth
Produce something such as heat or a smell
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| Give out | Distribute; give something to several people
Become used up or exhausted; run out
Stop functioning; fail
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| Give up | Surrender; devote (oneself) completely
Stop doing something that was done regularly
Lose hope for or lose hope of seeing
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| Go down | Be remembered by posterity for having done something
Set, drop below the horizon
Fall to the ground
Sink
Decrease in cost or value
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| Go into | Deal with something in detail
Undertake as a profession or course of study
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| Go off | Stop being fresh (as of food)
Explode; make a noise or sound
Adhere to the expected course of events or the expected plan
Stop liking someone or something
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| Go on | Continue happening or doing something as before
Do something after doing something else
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| Go over | Repeat a series of things or think about them again in order to understand them completely
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| Grow on | Become progressively more acceptable or pleasant to
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| Hand down | Bequeath or give to your heirs
Make and pronounce an official decision (especially a court verdict)
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| Hand in | Give something to a person in authority
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| Hand out | Distribute freely; administer or deal out
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| Keep on | Continue doing something
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| Leave out | Not include someone or something
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| Let down | Disappoint, fail to meet the expectations of
Withdraw support from, forsake
Cause to come down gradually, lower
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| Let off | Give someone little or no punishment for something they did wrong
Make something such as a bomb explode
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| Let off on | (Informal) Cause to diminish, as in pressure; ease up on
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| Look after | Take care of someone or something and make certain that they have everything they need
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| Look down on | Think that you are better or more important than someone else
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| Look into | Try to discover the facts about somethingsuh as a problem or crime
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| Look out | Used for warning someone to be careful, especially because they are in a dangerous situation and likely to have an accident
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| Look up to | Admire and respect someone
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| Look up | Try to find a particular piece of information by looking in a book or on a list, or by using a computer
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| Make for | Move towards a place
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| Make off | Escape with something, especially something stolen
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| Make out | Pretend that something is true
See, hear, or understand someone or something with difficulty
Write all the necessary information on a document such as a cheque
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| Make up for | Provide something good, so that something bad seems less important
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| Make up | Become friendly with someone again after an argument
Invent a story, poem, etc.
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| Name after | Give someone or something the same name as someone or something else
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| Narrow down | Reduce the number or possibilities or choices
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| Pass away | Die
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| Pass out | Suddenly become unconscious (because of heat, for example)
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| Pick on | Keep treating someone badly badly or unfairly, especially by criticising them
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| Pick up | Go and meet someone or something that you have arranged to take somewhere in a vehicle
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| Pop in | Go somewhere quickly or for a short time
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| Pull in | Arrive at a destination and stop there
Arrest (a criminal suspect)
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| Pull out | Stop being involved in an activity, event or situation
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| Pull through | Manage to stay alive after you have been very ill or very badly injured
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| Put by | Save an amount of money so that you can buy or pay for something in the future
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| Put down | Criticize someone, especially when other people are present, ina way that makes them feel stupid
Kill an animal using a drug because it is very ill or very dangerous
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| Put down to | Explain something as being caused by something else
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| Put forward | Suggest something or offer an idea, opinion, reason, etc. especially so that someone can discuss it and make a decision
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| Put off | Delay doing something
Make someone not want to do something, or make someone nto like someone or something
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| Put on | Add (for example weight so that you become fatter)
Clothe oneself with
Produce, perform
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| Put out | Extinguish; expel
Publish
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| Put through | Connect someone to the person they want to speak to on the telephone
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| Put to | Match something (a name, a date, etc) with something else
Say something to someone in a particular way
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| Run out of | Use all of something and not have any left
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| Run over | Hit someone or something with a vehicle and drive over them
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| Sail through | Do something or deal with something very easily
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| See off | Go somewhere such as a station or airport with someone in order to say goodbye to them
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| See through | Understand the true character or nature of someone
Provide support or cooperation to someone throughout a period of time
Work on a project until completion
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| See to | Attend to or deal with someone or something
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| Set off | Start a journey or start going in a particular direction
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| Set out | Explain, describe or arrange something in a clear and detailed way, especially in writing
Start a journey
Start doing or working on something in order to achieve an aim
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| Set to | Start doing something in a determined or enthusiastic way
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| Set up | Start something such as a business, organisation or institution
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| Settle down | Become calm after being upset, nervous or excited or to make someone do this
Begin to live a quieter life by getting married or staying permanently in a place
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| Show off | Behave in a way that is intended to attract people's attention and make them admire you
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| Stand in for | Do someone else's job temporarily while they are not available to do it
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| Stand out | Be easy to see or notice because of being different
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| Take aback | Be shocked or surprised, especially by something someone says or does to you
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| Take after | Resemble an older relative in appearance, temperament or character; look or behave like
Follow as an example
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| Take down | Write down information or a statement
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| Take in | Trick someone into believing something that is not true
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| Take off | Leaving the ground to start crying (said of an aircraft)
Remove something, especially a piece of clothing
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| Take on | Accept some work or responsibility
Start to employ someone
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| Take to | Begin to like someone or something
Start doing something as a habit
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| Take up | Fill a particular amount of space or time
Start doing something regularly as a habit, job or interest
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| Tear down | Destroy or remove a structure or part of a structure
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| Think through | Consider the facts about something in an organised and thorough way
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| Throw away | Get rid of something that you no longer want
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| Try on | Put on a piece of clothing in order to see how it looks and whether it fits
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| Turn down | Refuse to accept an offer or request
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| Turn in | Hand in, give over; inform on or deliver
Produce
(Informal)Go to bed at night
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| Turn into | Change or develop into something different
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| Turn off | Stop using a piece of equipment by pressing a button or moving a switch
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| Turn out | Develop in a particular way or have a particular result
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| Turn over | Turn a page in a book or a sheet of paper so that the other side is towards you
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| Turn round | Return the same way that you came instead of continuing on your journey
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| Turn up | Come somewhere unexpectedly or without making a firm arrangement
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| Wear off | Diminish gradually in effect
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| Wear out | Make or become unusable through long or heavy use
Use up or consume gradually; exhaust, tire
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