Phrasal Verbs Flashcards
Call on
To visit / ask for help
Call off
To cancel
Call back
Return a phone call
Talk through
Guide someone through an issue
Talk into
To pursued somebody to do or not to do something
Talk over
To discuss something
Come across
Find unexpectedly
Come apart
Separate
Come forward
Volunteer for a task
Come along
Accompany
Catch at
Take or grab hold of something
Catch on
To become popular or fashionable
Catch up
to get to the same point as somebody else
Carry on
To continue
Carry out
To perform a task
Carry over
Continue past a certain point
Fall apart
Break into pieces
Fall down
Fall to the ground
Fall out
Become loose and unattached
Back up
Move a copy of computer data
Back away
To move backwards because you are afraid, shocked etc
Back out
To not do something that you had promised to do
Get along
Like each other
Get away
Go on a vacation
Get back
Return
Get on
To get along
Pop in
to make a quick visit
Pop up
to appear or happen when you are not excepting it
Pop out
to come out of something suddenly or quick and
Break up
To come to an end
Break in
Force entry to a building
Break out
Escape
Hang in
Stay positive
Hang on
Wait for a short time
Hang out
Spend time relaxing
Hang up
End a phone call
Count in
to include or involve
Count on
Depend or rely
Count down
Wait excitedly for something to happen
run into
To meet somebody by chance
run through
To discuss or read something quickly
run after
To try to catch somebody
run out
To finish your supply of something; to come to an end
Dig in
Start eating greedily
Dig up
To make a hole or take away soil by digging
Dig out
To find some thing that has been forgotten for a long time
Look for
Try to find
Look into
Investigate
Look out
Be careful,vigilant
Give away
to donate something
Give back
To return something to the person you took it from
Give in
To stop fighting against somebody or something
Branch out
To start doing something new and different from the things you usually do
Branch off
(Used about a road) to live a larger road and go off in another direction
Start up
Open a business
Brush off
To remove something with a brush or with the hand
Brush up
To improve one’s knowledge or skills
Brush aside
To refuse to pay attention to somebody or something
Invite in
To ask somebody to come into your home
Invite out
To ask somebody to go out somewhere with you
Pass away
Die
Pass out
Faint
Pass by
To go past without stopping
Think back
To remember
Think of
To create an idea in your imagination
Think over
To consider something carefully
Make off
To leave in a hurry, for example after stealing something
Make up
To form something
Make over
To change your appearance
Scale down
To decrease the number, size or extent of something
Scale up
To Increase the size or number or something
Pick on
To behave unfairly or in a cruel way towards somebody
Pick out
To choose something /somebody from a number of people or things
Pick up
to become better;to improve
Pick at
To eat only small amounts of food because you are not hungry
Turn - off
Stop a machine
Turn-up
Appear
Turn on
Start a machine
Take over
To take responsibility for something
Take up
To start doing something regularly
Take on
To start employ somebody.
Take away
To remora something
Take in
To allow somebody in your home to stay
Check off
Mark something on a list as done
Check in
To arrive and register at a hotel or airport
Check out
To leave a hotel
Pull up
To slow and stop a car
Pull Off
Manage to do something difficult or tricky
Pull down
To demolish
Keep out
To not enter a place; to stay outside
Keep away
To avoid going near somebody / something
Keep on
To continue doing something
Bring back
To cause someone to remember
Bring down
To reduce
Bring on
Cause something to happen
Wait about
Wait somewhere doing nothing
wait on
To serve people at a restaurant
Wait out
To wait until an event is over
Boil over
To become very angry
Boil down
to be reduced or to reduce something by boiling
