LIST OF PHRASAL VERBS+EXPLANATIONS

rafai الثلاثاء 4 مايو 2010 - 17:46

Look

Look after : to take care of

Look down on : to despise , to consider oneself as superior

look for : to search for

look into : to investigate

look up : to search for words in a dictionary , facts etc

make

make for : to go in the direction of
make out : to write out , to manage to see, read … etc , to pretend
make up : to invent(a story…etc)
to use cosmetics.

Pass

pass away : to die
Pass on : to die

Pull

Pull down : to demolish
Pull up : to come to a stop

Put

Put away : to put something in its usual
Place of storage.

:to save
Put off : to postpone
Put out : to extinguish (fire)
Put up with : to tolerate / bear patiently

Ring
To ring off : to end a telephone conversation
Ring up : to telephone

Run

Be run down : to be in poor health
Run into : to meet somebody by chance
Run out of : to have no more supplies of
Run over : to knock down (of a vehicle)

wipe

Wipe out - Make someone very tired
Wipe out - Kill all of a population, make extinct

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Write

Write down - Make notes

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jot
Jot down - Make a quick note

See

See about : to deal with / to arrange
See somebody across : to help somebody to
Cross(a road etc)

See somebody off : to accompany somebody Who is leaving and say Goodbye to him.
See to : to put right.

Set

Set off : to begin (a journey……etc)
Set out : to begin (a journey……etc)
Set up : to establish ( a business… etc) Sit
Sit up : to go to bed later than usual

Stand

Stand by somebody : to give moral support to Somebody.
Stand for : to represent

Take

Take after : to resemble
Take in : to deceive (by a trick)
Take off : to leave the ground and
Begin to fly.

To imitate

Take over : to acquire / to take control of
(business ,a post..etc)
take to : to come to like to get into a habit.
Take up to begin doing (as hobby

Try

Try on to see if clothes fit
Try out : to use something in order To test it.

Turn
Turn down to reject , to reduce (volume etc
Turn up to arrive, to increase the volume

wash

Wash up - Clean everything used to prepare food and eat it
The children WASHED UP after lunch.

watch
Watch out - Be careful (imperative)
Watch out for - Be careful of something

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