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Phrasal verbs with BREAK
break in / break into: enter a building illegally with force. This is what robbers do, they break into houses and stores.
break through: make a sudden and quick advance past challenges.
break down:
- It can mean when a machine stops functioning, like if your car breaks down, it stops working.
- If a person breaks down, it means they have a physical, mental or emotional collapse.
break away: separate or move away from a group
break out:
- develop a skin irritation like pimples or a rash
- escape from a confined area like a prison
- break something out means to get something ready for using or consuming
break off: separate something from a larger thing, ex. I broke off a piece of the chocolate bar to give to my children.
break up:
- end a romantic relationship
- or to separate into pieces
Phrasal verbs with BRING
bring about: cause something to happen
bring down:
- cause something to fall or collapse
- if you bring a person down, or if something brings you, down it makes you feel bad or depressed
bring up:
- take care of, educate, and raise a child
- bring up a topic in a conversation = mention that topic, introduce it into the conversation
bring out: develop or emphasize a quality, like if I wear blue, it brings out the color of my eyes because my eyes are also blue.
bring forth: a more formal phrasal verb meaning to create or produce
bring back:
- return something to a place, like bringing library books back to the library
- cause someone to remember, ex. “That song really brings me back to high school!”
bring in:
- move something from outdoors to indoors
- produce or earn money
Phrasal verbs with COME
come across: find something by chance
come about: happen
come along:
- make progress, ex. “Your English is really coming along!” meaning you’re improving
- accompany someone
come out:
- for something to be published or released like a movie or book coming out
- If a person comes out, that can mean reveal that they are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender
- to appear, to leave the inside
come by / come over: visit someone
come through:
- provide needed help and support. When I needed to move my apartment, my friends really came through, meaning they provided the help in my time of need
- become seen or obvious
come up:
- appear, like when a problem, issue or topic appears
- approach someone: A beggar came up to me asking for money.
come back: return to a place
come on:
- hurry up, move faster. I often tell my daughter, “Come on, you gotta get ready for school!” in the morning
- stop doing something annoying, ex. “Oh come on, stop tapping your foot. It’s making me crazy.”
come across as: give an impression
Phrasal verbs with FALL
fall behind: not make enough progress to stay on schedule
fall back on: have the option to use something if other plans are not successful
fall apart:
- spontaneously break into pieces
- if a person falls apart it means they become very emotionally upset so that they can’t act normally
fall down / fall over: fall to the ground
fall out:
- fall from an enclosed space, like when you’re a kid, your baby teeth fall out of your mouth
- fall out with a person means to have an argument with someone and stay angry at each other
fall through: when plans fail
fall off: when something separates from a bigger object
fall for:
- fall in love with someone
- be deceived by a lie or trick
Phrasal verbs with GET
get along with: have a good relationship with someone
get away with: do something bad but escape the consequences
get around:
- manage to go places physically
- get around to doing something means you finally manage to do a task, often after some time has passed
get into:
- be accepted by a school, club, etc.
- become interested or active in something, like getting into a new hobby
get over: recover, either physically or emotionally
get through: proceeding with or finishing something difficult
get up: get out of bed, or to go from a sitting/laying to a standing position
get away:
- escape
- to take a short vacation
get by: manage to survive, usually with financial difficulties
get to:
- arrive, reach a destination
- have the opportunity to do something good or special
get back at someone: get revenge
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Phrasal verbs with GO
go about: do something
go for: try to get/do something
go under: when a company loses all its money and closes. We could also say “go bankrupt.”
go over:
- get acceptance or approval from a group
- to review – right now we’re going over lots of common phrasal verbs
go down: sink or decrease in level, price, or value
go on: happen, proceed, or continue
go around: move here and there, from place to place
go out with someone: be dating, romantically involved
go through: experience, especially when you experience something difficult
go with: select or choose. Like if I’m trying to buy a new dress, I might say, “I think I’ll go with the black one.”
go up: increase in level, price, or value
go off:
- when an alarm or siren makes noise, like my alarm goes off in the morning to wake me up
- when a bomb explodes
go by: to talk about time passing
Phrasal verbs with GIVE
give off: emit or send out a smell, energy, or feeling
give in: stop resisting and agree to do what someone else wants
give away:
- offer or provide for free, like I’m giving away the free download of this lesson
- reveal or make known
give out:
- distribute, like a cookie shop might give out free samples
- if something gives out, it stops functioning, it becomes exhausted, or it has no more energy
give up:
- stop trying or doing; to abandon an effort
- stop possessing something
give back:
- return something to someone, so if I borrow my friend’s camera, I will need to give it back
- giving time or money to charity
Phrasal verbs with PICK
pick up:
- take something with your hand
- take passengers in a vehicle
- improve or increase – If I say the wind is picking up, that means the wind is getting stronger
- buy; ex. you pick up some milk at the store
- detect
- continue after a break
- get knowledge by learning or experience. I hope my lessons are helping you pick up English!
pick on someone: tease or bully someone
pick apart: criticize or find fault
pick through: search within a collection or mess of things
pick out:
- choose or select
- identify something specific from a group
pick at:
- pull with your fingers or nails
- if you pick at your food it means you eat only little bits, almost like you’re not very hungry
Phrasal verbs with PUT
put away: put something in its proper place
put aside: stop using or considering something until later.
put off:
- delay doing something or procrastinate
- if something puts you off, it means it makes a bad impression on you
put on:
- starting to wear clothes, accessories, or makeup
- produce a show or performance
put out:
- extinguish a fire or extinguish a cigarette
- put out publications, publish them at a regular frequency
- if someone is put out, it means they are inconvenienced
put through: cause someone to experience something
put up with: tolerate something annoying or difficult
put forth / put forward: offer or propose for consideration
put down:
- write something on a piece of paper
- put someone down means to criticize and humiliate the person
- put an animal down means to kill an animal that is old or sick and suffering
put back: return an object to the location it came from
Phrasal verbs with SET
set aside: separate and reserve something for a special purpose
set apart: make something noticeable and distinct from others
set off:
- cause to occur, especially an explosion, reaction, or alarm
- begin a journey
set out:
- begin a journey, ex. We set out/off on our hike at six o’clock in the morning.
- start an effort or project
- put things on display for showing or sale
set in: begin to have an effect or begin to happen, especially when talking about seasons, feelings and trends.
set back: delay or prevents from moving forward
set up:
- physically assemble something and put it in a standing position, like setting up a tent
- establish something and get it ready for use
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Phrasal verbs with TAKE
take in: receive and understand information.
take after someone: have a similar appearance or personality as one of your relatives
take on:
- accept work or responsibility
- hire or employ someone
- fight or compete against someone
take over: take control or become dominant
take off:
- an airplane going up into the air
- become successful or popular fast
- leave a place suddenly (informal)
- remove something, like take off a hat or jacket
- take time off means not going to work for a time, ex. I’m taking a week off to travel.
take back:
- return something to a place
- if you take some of your words back, it means you admit that something you said or wrote was wrong
take up:
- fill space and time
- start doing an activity regularly
take apart: separate something into parts.
Phrasal verbs with TURN
turn away: not allow someone to enter/access a place. If the club is full, they will turn people away at the door.
turn around: change direction and go the opposite way
turn down:
- decrease the volume or the heating or air conditioning
- not accept an invitation or offer; to say no to it
turn in:
- go to bed
- give an assignment to a teacher or supervisor
- deliver someone who committed a crime to the police
turn into: become
turn out: have an end result
turn up:
- increase volume, heating or AC
- appear
turn over:
- transfer something to someone in authority
- flip something to the other side
turn on:
- make someone sexually aroused
- start or activate a machine, light, or electrical device
turn off:
- stop or deactivate a machine, light, or electrical device
- make someone lose interest
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