Phasal Verbs Flashcards
To stand up
Stand up for someone
Stand someone up
To defend yourself or not allow yourself to be treated badly. (stand up for someone)
To fail to meet someone you had arranged to see. ( stand someone up)
To blow off
Blow (someone/something) off
Blow off someone/something
to refuse to take notice of or deal with.
To behave as if you think someone or something is unimportant: to ignore.
To make up
Make something up
Make up something
to Invent something, such as a story or an excuse; to create something based on imagination.
to kick off
Kick someone off
kick off
to start doing something
To force someone to leave a place or an activity
to put aside
To save or keep something to be used at a later time
to screw over
Screw someone over
to treat someone unfairly or take advantage of someone
To put someone in an unfavorable or bad situation.
To stick around
to stay where you are, often because you’re waiting for something.
To remain in a place for longer than you originally intended.
To take down
Take someone down
Take something down
To remove something or move something down from a higher position to a lower one.
To ruin or destroy something or someone (or their chances for success).
To insult or defeat someone, often publicly,
To set on sb
To be resolved to do or have something or strongly wishing for something
to back off
To stop criticizing someone or telling them what to do
To stop being involved in a situation, usually to allow other people to deal with it themselves.
to flip out
To become extremely angry or to lose control of yourself; to become emotionally unstable
to track down
Track something/someone down
Track down something/someone
To find someone, something or find information about them after a difficult or long search
To screw up
Screw someone/something up
To fail at something or to make a serious mistake; to spoil something, especially a situation
To drop in
to visit someone unexpectedly or without making arrangements first
Come about
Happen (often without planning)
come off
Come off something
Happen as planned
Stop using
Pay off/succeed
End up
Remove
come along
Go with someone
Start to exist
improve
Come under
Come under something
experience something
Having a bad situation
Come up (to)
ir, subir, acercarse
Come through
arrive (information) or survive
Come up with
idear
Come up against
Enfrentarse con (not good)
Come across (as)
Encontrar
Cruzar (una curva)
(as being) dar la impression de ser
Come around
Dejarse convencer (change your mind)
volver
venir
volver en si (después de casi morir)
tomar (una curva)
come out (with)
salir (del closet)
salir
Come apart
romperse, depararse (cosas)
Romperse (emocionalmente, con personas)
Come on
Salir en escena
Dar la impresión de ser
coquetear
Come into
Entrar
Heredar
Tener algo que ver
come over
Visitar
Come in
Entrar
subir (marea)
Make out
Besuquiarse, (make out)
hacerse entender (make something out) (understand)
succeed (make out)
Make out with (have sex)
Make off with
Largarse con algo
Listen up
Escuchar con atención
Hear about
escuchar sobre
Sniff around
Husmear
Listen in (on)
Husmear
Cut back/cut down
reducir
Go by
pasar por
Let down
disappoiment
in the both ways
Pay off
pagar frutos
Brush off
desacerase (Brush off someone)
Brush something/someone off
remove dust or dirty, or something like that
Brush up on
repasar
Lay out
presentar
Spend money (informal)
both ways
Major in
expecializarse en
Wipe off
borrar
wipe something off
let off
sin ser regañado
(let someone off)
Tell off
punished, criticized
both ways
Put off
posponer
both ways
put someone off something (dislike)
Drop by/in
visit someone (in) ;’/………………….ll///l
pasar por (by)
bump into
chocar con alguien
point off
To attract someone’s attention to something.
To talk about or mention something that you think is important, especially some fact or mistake.
Come forward
#No witnesses to the accident have come forward yet, despite the police appeal.
#Come forward with Nobody has yet come forward with any information relating to the girl’s death.
to offer or tell information about something especially about a crime or misbehavior.
(to offer to give help or information)
Stand for sth
To support or represent a particular idea.
If someone stands for a particular principle, they believe that principle is important.
To be willing to accept something that someone does
Fill in/fill in for
fill sb in/ fill in sb (in both ways)
to do someone’s else’s work for them be chase they can’t or will not do it themselves.
To complete someone’s understanding
to add information in the blank spaces.
Jot down
Jot sth down/ jot down sth
To write something quick or briefly so that you can remember it; to write a short note of
Knock up
Knock sb up
Informal for make a woman pregnant (slang)
to wake someone up by knocking on the door of their house or bedroom
Pass on
Pass sb on
Used as a polite way to avoid something saying the verb “to die”
To give something to someone, after someone else gave it to you. (pass sb on)
To refuse something.
Move on
inmovibable
To accept that a situation has changed and be ready to deal with new experiences;
To start a new activity or job, especially after you have spent a long time doing a previous activity or job.
give away
both ways
To give something for free , as a gift, or without expecting anything in return.
To tell information or facts that you should keep secret.
If someone gives the bride away, they officially reset her to her husband.
Take apart
both ways
To separate the parts of something so that they are not together
Freak out
freak sb out
To become or cause someone to be in a very emotional state of fear, anger, panic or excitement.
Crack up (slang)
both ways
To laugh a lot at something
To make someone laugh a lot
Stand by
inmovible
To be waiting and read to do something.
To allow something unpleasant to happen without doing anything to stop it.
To support or be loyal to someone or something.
