2011-05-13 - English phrasal verbs
- To explain
- Want something or someone a lot
- To take action because of something like information received
- Perform something with actions and gestures.
- Express an emotion in your behavior
- Behave badly or strangely
- Include in a calculation
- To make a mathematical total
- Be a satisfactory explanation for something
- Have a certain result
- To target
- Include something in a plan or calculation
- Try to get something indirectly, by hinting or suggesting
- To reply rudely to someone in authority
- Be held responsible for a problem
- Speak on behalf of someone or from knowing them
- Argue about a problem to find a solution
- Enquire about someone's health, how life is going
- Ask a number of people for information of help
- Invite someone
- To provoke a negative reaction
- Request to have or be given
- To invite somebody into your house
- To invite someone for a date
- Invite
- Invite someone
- Sell something in an auction
- Retreat or go backwards
- Retract or withdraw your position or proposal in an argument
- Enter a parking area in reverse gear
- Retreat
- Fail to keep an arrangement or promise
- Fail to keep an agreement, arrangement
- Exit a parking area in reverse gear
- Make a copy of computer data
- Support
- Drive a vehicle backwards
- Criticise
- Save, rescue
- Remove water from something that is flooded
- Jump out of a plane because it is going to crash
- Pay a bond to release someone from jail
- Stop supporting someone when they are in trouble
- Talk to someone and delay them
- Rob someone at gunpoint
- Confuse or make things complicated
- Roll or form into a round shape
- Spoil, ruin
- Move in a place making a lot of noise
- Move in a place making a lot of noise
- Keep talking about something
- Play a musical instrument loudly
- Put someone in prison
- Damage badly
- Count or rely on
- Enter a place and interrupt
- Enter a place and interrupt people rudely
- Mistreat physically
- Break, damage or injure by hitting
- Write something quickly without much preparation
- Break, damage or hurt by hitting
- Scold, shout at someone
- Scold
- Sing or shout unpleasantly loudly
- Try to find or get
- Arrive
- Be elsewhere; on holiday, etc.
- Be suitable, have the necessary qualities
- Be upset
- Be depressed
- Be reduced or less
- Have negative feelings toward someone
- Be ill
- Be bored, upset or sick of something
- Be at home or at work
- Be submitted, arrive
- Be involved in
- Be unacceptable
- Be bad (of food)
- Depart, leave
- Be functioning (of machines)
- Take place
- Take medication or drugs, especially when they affect the person badly
- Be at the top of one’s game, performing very well
- Mean, try to say
- Pursue, be aware of someone's true nature
- Be absent from a place
- Have no more left
- Attempt
- Have too much work
- Be shocked or surprised
- Like something
- Be out of bed
- Have increased or risen
- When the time for something finishes or expires
- Be enthusiastic about an upcoming event
- Be good enough
- Doing something naughty or wrong
- Move towards
- Influence, affect
- Confirm that something is correct
- Confirm that something is correct
- Resist pressure
- Cope with something difficult or stressful
- Be patient
- Strong sunshine
- Narrowly win in competition
- Attack violently
- Work hard
- Work hard doing something
- Sleep somewhere less comfortable than normal
- Become established or successful over time
- Move a plant outside
- Make something stronger or more solid
- Sing something loudly
- Be quiet
- Fasten your seatbelt
- Lower the top half of your body
- Lower the top part of your body
- Do a lot to try to help or please someone
- Fall unconscious
- Lose light
- Censor text so that words cannot be read
- Have a temporary memory failure
- A loud sound or music
- Leave the ground- spaceship or rocket
- Fire a gun repeatedly
- Be extremely relaxed and happy
- Park a car and obstruct another car
- Shade or fill in
- Obstruct an exit to prevent people from leaving
- Stop light from entering or leaving
- Try not think about or feel something because it is upsetting or painful
- Fill a space so that nothing can pass
- Kill
- Beat rivals or competitors by a large margin
- Impress greatly
- When the wind moves something from a place
- When the wind forces something to fall
- Arrive, sometimes suddenly or unexpectedly
- Not keep an appointment
- Ignore, not do something
- Extinguish candles, matches, etc.
- Defeat decisively
- When a scandal gets forgotten
- Explode
- Inflate
- Enlarge (e.g., photograph).
- Say something quickly without thinking, especially if you shouldn't
- Slow make progress
- Eat enthusiastically
- Eat something enthusiastically
- Get lost
- Simplify, reduce to the essentials
- Amount to
- When a hot liquid spills out of a container
- When people lose their tempers and things get nasty
- Feel a negative emotion strongly
- Cook or heat something to boiling point
- Study hard
- Make a reservation in advance
- Check in at a hotel
- Make a reservation in advance
- Check in at a hotel
- Reserve
- Start a computer
- Be located next to a place
- Be very nearly something
- Use excessive authority to control people
- Use excessive authority to control people
- Ruin or spoil something
- Store up
- Lack courage to do something
- Not express your feelings
- Pass the lowest point and start rising
- Force someone
- Recover
- Test ideas
- Surprise someone greatly
- Prevent something from moving, especially vehicles
- Pack things in boxes to move them
- Move into a different area of business, etc.
- Leave an organisation, usually to form a new one
- End negotiations unsuccessfully
- Start crying
- Stop working
- Go into a building to steal something
- Interrupt something
- Train a horse to be ridden
- Carefully use new products until they are fully functional.
- Break a piece from something
- End a relationship
- Sweat heavily, develop skin sores or irritation.
- Escape
- Pass a barrier or obstacle
- Break into many pieces
- Close an educational institution for the holidays
- Finish a relationship
- Become inaudible over the telephone because of interference
- Move easily and quickly
- Enter a place quickly
- Enter a place quickly
- Pass easily, succeed
- Improve (weather)
- Become happier
- Make something more attractive or pleasant
- Make something happen
- Bring someone or something to certain place
- Help someone improve
- Persuade or convince someone
- Bring something with you when you visit
- Get someone talking about something
- Cause someone to remember
- Return
- Make a government fall
- Make something cheaper
- Produce something, make it known or visible
- Produce
- Make something happen
- Remove something from where it is kept or hidden
- Make something happen earlier than originally planned
- Earn
- Cause something to happen or speed up the process
- Make something appear
- Release or publish
- Elicit a response
- Cause a health problem or reaction
- Make someone wake up from unconsciousness or an anaesthetic
- Mention
- Raise a child
- Be officially charged with a crime
- Ignore, pay little attention
- Improve a skill quickly
- Become very excited
- Hurry (either transitive or reflexive)
- Smarten up, improve
- Rain heavily
- Move to make space for someone
- Clear, clean or make something shine
- Improve
- Improve your knowledge quickly
- Go away
- Open your eyes wide in surprise
- Leave somewhere in a hurry
- Develop a company
- Increase
- Make something bigger or thicker
- Meet by chance
- Kill
- Increase
- Send someone somewhere
- Expel
- Put on warm clothing
- Wrap or tie things together
- Not go to school when you should
- Make someone feel more positive
- Burn completely
- Remove by burning or similar process
- Lose enthusiasm and energy to continue in a demanding job
- Destroy completely by fire
- Drive at high speed
- To be or cause to be highly annoyed
- Catch fire very quickly
- Laugh, cry or clap loudly
- Interrupt
- Not be involved in other people's business
- Praise or flatter someone excessively
- Force a CD or record into the charts by buying lots of copies
- Accept an idea
- Pay someone to stop them causing trouble
- Buy somebody's share in a company
- Buy all of something
- Move quickly around a place
- Leave somewhere
- Go away (imperative)
- Name someone after somebody else
- Visit
- Return a phonecall
- Demand
- Go to collect something
- Telephone for something
- Go and collect someone to take them out
- Require
- Make something happen
- Get someone to come and do a job
- Stop and visit
- Cancel
- Order someone to stop attacking
- Ask for help
- Visit
- Challenge
- Ask someone to do something, especially to speak in public. (Formal)
- Visit
- Summon someone for military service
- Telephone
- Stop being angry or emotionally excited
- Have an opposite effect on something that has happened, taking things back to the beginning
- Like
- Get so emotional that you lose control
- Include a figure in a later calculation
- Make something progress
- Win, succeed
- Die of a disease
- Continue
- Behave badly
- Have an affair
- Perform a task
- Food bought from a restaurant to take away
- Continue past a certain point
- Complete successfully
- Take someone away, usually under arrest or to prison
- Take something away, especially if stealing or without permission
- Convert shares, bonds, casino chips, etc, into money
- Benefit or make money on something, especially if done unfairly
- Illegally access a bank account or credit card and steal money
- Count all the money taken in a shop or business at the end of the day
- Take or grab hold of something
- Become popular
- Finally understand what is going on
- Trick
- Discover or prove that someone is lying
- Put someone in an unexpected and difficult situation (often passive)
- Get work, etc, up to date.
- Reach someone who was ahead of you
- Do something that should have been done earlier
- Reminisce with an old friend after not seeing them for a while
- Do something that should have been done earlier
- Meet someone after a period of time and find out what they have been doing
- When something negative starts to have an effect
- Punish someone after they have been doing something wrong for a long time
- Learn something new that many people already understand
- To provide what is necessary
- To provide what is needed, often seen negatively
- Collapse
- Stop resisting or refusing
- To cut a line of cocaine
- To achieve something good
- Explain the reason for a problem
- Find something by accident
- Change a system
- Put electricity into a battery
- Accuse somebody of a crime
- Try hard to find or get something
- Force a person to leave or go away
- Ensure that someone remembers to do something
- Try to get someone to pay a bill, debt, etc
- Try to get more information about the progress of something
- Talk to someone you are sexually interested in to get them interested in you
- Be sexually unfaithful
- Deceive or betray, often in a sexual and/or emotional context
- Get money from someone under false pretences
- Visit a place to check something
- Register on arriving at a hotel or at the airport
- Register on arriving at a hotel or at the airport
- Mark something on a list as done
- Pay the bill when leaving a hotel
- Die
- Stop paying attention
- Settle up and pay before leaving a hotel
- Check something very carefully
- Encourage
- Be less unhappy
- Thinks about something carefully before deciding
- Criticize someone angrily
- Think about an issue
- Cut into small pieces with your teeth
- Damage something inside a machine
- Be too afraid to do something
- Relax
- Contribute to a discussion
- Gradually reduce something to make it less powerful, effective, etc
- Contribute some money
- Contribute to a discussion
- Form groups or teams
- Form groups or teams
- Fell or cut down a tree
- Cut into small pieces
- Dispose of something you no longer need or want
- Quit something
- Make a comment
- Dispose of something you no longer need or want
- Vomit, be sick
- Quit something
- Produce, usually quickly or in large amounts without much regard to quality
- Make something sticky
- Be quiet, refuse to speak
- Restrict or try to stop something
- Get money back
- Retake possession with difficulty
- Tidy up thoroughly and throw away unwanted things.
- Cause someone to spend all their money
- Tidy and clean
- Leave a place
- Remove or tidy
- Leave somewhere quickly
- Tidy up thoroughly and throw away unwanted stuff.
- Leave somewhere
- Cure or recover from an infection
- Tidy up
- Explain
- Improve (weather)
- Open an advertisement on the Internet
- Accept that you are wrong and change your position
- Block, slow movement right down
- Close a shop, branch or business permanently
- Stop an opponent being a challenge
- Surround, envelop
- Approach, get near
- Get near someone
- Get near someone
- Block a place to stop people entering
- Get nearer
- Bring something to an end
- Close or stop using
- Ignore, exclude
- Completely close something
- Join together
- Move closer together
- Get very cloudy
- Behave stupidly or waste time
- Behave stupidly or waste time
- Ruin or spoil something
- Blush
- Happen, occur
- Find by accident
- Agree to have sex with someone
- The way other people see you
- Break into pieces
- Recover consciousness
- Agree with or accept something you had previously disapproved of or disliked.
- Appear in court charged with a crime or offence
- Visit
- Acquire
- Rain
- Travel
- Criticise heavily
- Fall ill
- Appear
- Provide information
- Country or town where you were born
- Arrive for flights
- Place or ranking in a competition, etc.
- Receive news
- Receive (criticism or praise)
- Be important or relevant
- Inherit
- Start being used
- When something breaks off
- Be successful
- I don't believe what you're saying; used as an imperative
- Encouragement
- Start an illness
- Start functioning (machines, etc)
- A secret is revealed
- Be published or otherwise available to the public
- Disappear when washed
- Let people know that you are lesbian or gay
- When the sun appears
- Have a rash or similar skin problem
- Make something available
- Say something publicly and unexpectedly
- Feel strange
- Affect mentally in such a way as to change behaviour (possibly related to 'overcome')
- Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic
- Change your opinion
- Arrive (messages and information)
- Communicate an emotion
- Produce a result
- Provide something needed
- Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic
- Result in
- Appear
- Rise (the sun)
- Encounter problems or difficulties
- Think of a solution, excuse, etc.
- Find by chance
- Create a picture or memory in someone's mind
- Create something without many resources
- Fall fast asleep
- Suddenly breakdown or stop working
- Become involved or committed to something
- Give a contract for a service outside the company you work for
- Formally leave and agreement
Cool down- Get cooler
- Become calm
- Confine in a small area
- Get into trouble
- Leave work or school early
- Kiss, pet or have sex with someone
- Choose an easy alternative
- To work out the truth
- Need or want something
- Include or involve
- Depend, rely
- Exclude
- Add
- Make yourself comfortable
- Make yourself popular with someone
- Use more authority than usual
- Continue doing something with energy
- Have a nervous breakdown
- Have bad reception on a mobile phone
- Burst out laughing
- Damage a car badly
- Produce a lot of something fast
- Inject non-medical drugs
- Start a machine, originally with a handle
- Increase, make something bigger
- Sleep at someone's house because you are too tired, drunk, etc. to leave
- Fall asleep
- Start to be noticeable
- Get included despite attempts to keep it or them out
- Become noticeable in something
- make someone feel worried or uneasy
- To do the same activity for a very long time
- Start to have a negative feeling
- Approach without someone realising
- Appear unexpectedly
- Delete, remove from a list
- Put as line through some writing to show it is wrong
- Clear a table in a restaurant
- To cancel an arrangement
- Shout because you are in pain
- Go across a place rather than around it to make the journey quicker
- Affect people of different groups, classes, etc
- Reduce
- Reduce expenditure
- Consume less
- Shoot
- Reduce a vertical thing to ground level by cutting
- Cut something from a high position
- Reduce
- Start functioning
- Drive in front of another vehicle without warning
- Interrupt
- Include someone in a deal that makes money
- Mix fat and flour until the combine
- Stop your unfair or unreasonable behaviour
- Disconnect
- Isolate or make inaccessible
- Exclude
- When an engine or motor stops
- Cut a picture or similar from a magazine, etc
- Let down, snub
- Cut into smaller pieces
- Drive into a neighbouring lane, directly in front of another vehicle
- Upset
- Have a lot of small injuries
- Leave somewhere quickly
- Do something quickly, especially writing
- Finally realise or understand something
- Become quieter or inaudible (of a sound)
- Decrease or become quieter
- Want something a lot
- Become extinct
- Become extinct or disappear
- Start eating greedily
- Reach inside to get something
- Find something that is supposed to be secret
- Have dinner outside your home
- Tell a story repeatedly that is well received
- Put something in a liquid for a short time
- Read parts of a book, but not all
- Take money out of your savings
- Leave a place without telling anyone
- Make someone feel sick or ill
- Serve food
- Give something, usually when you shouldn't
- Criticise, when you can't take criticism in return
- Serve food
- Start doing something, usually without planning
- Start eating
- Reach inside something quickly
- Divide, share
- Divide, share
- Abolish, get rid of
- Cheat somebody out of something that is rightfully theirs
- Close or fasten clothes, etc.
- Repair and renovate
- Manage without something
- Spend time doing very little or being unproductive
- Spend time doing very little or being unproductive
- Sleep somewhere temporarily because you don't go home
- Fall asleep
- Be unnecessarily long
- Retreat, move backwards
- Reduce levels
- Get funding
- To deplete by consumption or heavy spending
- Get dark earlier
- Arrive at a station (for trains)
- Get involved in something unpleasant
- Pass slowly (time)
- Inhale smoke from a cigarette, cigar, etc
- Make something continue longer than needed
- Make a shy person more outgoing
- Prepare a contract
- When a vehicle stops
- Not think or consider
- Invent something, have an idea
- Discover things about someone's past
- Dress casually
- Scold
- Dress very smartly
- Slowly cease to be close to or friends with someone
- Start to fall asleep
- Search through layers of information on a computer
- Get to the bottom of something, get detailed data
- Repeat something many times to make someone learn it
- Finish a drink
- Force an animal or someone to leave a place
- Repulse, force back
- Do something out of a car
- Drive away from a place
- Force someone to leave a place
- Make something increase
- Talk boringly for a long time
- Visit someone, often without making an arrangement
- Deliver
- Become smaller- amount, numbers
- Move towards the back of a group
- Pay a brief visit
- Visit without having made arrangements
- Take something or someone to a place and leave it or them there.
- Fall asleep
- Decrease in number or amount
- Quit a course
- Visit for a short time
- Visit someone, often without making an arrangement
- Deliver
- Get someone into trouble
- Come to nothing, produce no results
- Cover excessively
- Be so loud that another sound cannot be heard
- To make someone learn or believe something by constant repetition
- Force someone out of their job or position
- Increase support or interest
- Avoid doing something
- Beat or hit someone repeatedly
- Reduce the intellectual level of something in search of popularity
- Spend a lot of time on something
- Spend a lot of time on something
- Reduce pressure
- Relax, calm down
- Destroy slowly
- Eat at home
- Use something valuable when you don't want to
- Eat in a restaurant
- Eat all of something
- Consume
- Consume something you don't want to be consumed
