Phrasal Verbs Flashcards
To do sometime because someone has said that you should
Act on somebody’s (advice)
To make an extra copy of computer information
Back something up
To be doing something
Be up to something
To divide something into different areas
Break up something
To demand that something happens
Call for something
Decide that a planned event ou activity will not happen
Call something off
To cover a surface or fill a place with things that are not tidy or well organized
Clutter something up
To discover something or someone by chance
Come across somebody/something
To visit someone at their house
Come around
To deal successfully with a difficult situation
Cope with something
Take action in order to achieve something or to solve a problem
Deal with something
To become more and more rare and then disappear completely
Die out
To think of a new idea or plan
Dream something up
To start to sleep
Drop off (to sleep)
To stop working and doing thinks that most people do because you do not want to be part of society any longer
Drop out
To finally be in a particular place or situation
End up
To move things about or touch things with no particular purpose
Fiddle with something
To feel that you belong to a particular group
Fit in
To start doing something seriously and with a lot of attention
Get down to something
To start to do something in a purposeful way
Go about doing something
To choose something
Go for something
When something that makes a noise suddenly starts making a noise
Go off
To move towards something
Head for something
To ask someone for something
Hit up
somebody for something
To manage to keep a job
Hold down a job
To manage to do work as it is given to you and not be late in doing what you have to do
Keep up with something
To enjoy something very much
Lap something up
If you say you will never ……., you mean that it is an embarrassing experience that other people will not let you forget
Live something down
If you ….. money, you use that money to buy the things that you need to live
Live off something
To meet another person in order to do something together
Meet up with somebody
To leave the place where you are and go somewhere else
Move on
To stop living in a particular home
Move out
To give someone all of the money that you owe them
Pay up (informal)
To start learning something or doing something regularly without intending to
Pick up sth
To choose something from a group of things
Pick sth out
If a vehicle “pulls over”, it moves to the side of the road and stops
Pull over
If a vehicle “pulls up”, it stops
Pull up
To arrange to do something at a later time
Put sth off
To cause sth to explode
Set off sth
To arrange a number of things in a particular way
Set sth out
To arrange for sth to happen
Set up sth
To start living somewhere that you are going to live for a long time
Settle down
To satrt to feel relaxed and comfortable in a new situation
Settle into sth
To make a decision after spending a period of time thinking about the choices
Settle on sth
To pay someone the money that you owe them
Settle up
To be taught by someone (FORMAL)
Study under sb
To replace or destroy something
Sweep sth aside
To manage to reveal something
Tease out sth
To happen in a particular way
Turn out
If someone who is lying down “turns over”, they change position so that they are facing a diffrent direction
Turn over
If a person in a television show is “voted off”, the people watching the programme vote in order to make that person leave the show
Vote sb off
To annoy someone, often on purpose (INFORMAL)
Wind sb up
To destroy something completely
Wipe sth out
Stop demanding something
Back down
Stop working
Break down
To end / To separate
Break up
Raise (a child)
Bring up (a child)
To meet someone unexpectedly
Bump into
Continue
Carry on
To become popular (an ideia or a style) / To understand
Catch on
Make happier
Cheer up
Inherit (money)
Come into (money)
Think of and suggest an idea
Come up with (an idea)
Be mentioned, arise or appear
Come up
