Phrasal Verbs 2 Flashcards
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To meet and spend time together
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to get together
2
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To manage your emotions or the important aspects in your life.
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to get yourself together
3
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to accept or agree with a decision, rule, opinion, etc.
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to go along with
4
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To avoid a barrier or obstacle. When something is distributed or spread around. (rumor)
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to go around
5
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When you fail to fulfill a promise you made to someone.
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to go back on a promise
6
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To be more than or better than what is normal or expected.
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to go beyond
7
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When a period of time passes.
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to go by
8
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To try to obtain.
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to go for sth
9
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When an electronic device or system stops working. When an alarm clock starts, a gun fires or a bomb explodes.
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to go off
10
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To carefully explain or review something important or complicated.
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to go over
11
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When you make a decision to do something, and actually do it.
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to go through with sth
12
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To waste time doing silly or unimportant things.
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to goof around
13
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To become too big or too tall for your clothes. When you lose interest in something or someone due to age and/or maturity.
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to grow out of sth
14
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When you return something to the person who owns it after the person has given it to you
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to hand back
15
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To give something to a person of authority.
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to hand in
16
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To distribute something free to other people.
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to hand out
17
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To transfer control over something or someone to another person.
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to hand over
18
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To spend time in a place or an area.
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to hang around
19
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To hang something, usually wet clothes, to dry. To spend leisure time in a place.
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to hang out
20
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To hang clothes or an object on a hook, hanger or rod. To end a telephone conversation.
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to hang up
21
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To wear clothing, cosmetics, perfume, etc.
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to have on
22
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To go to a place where you’ve been before or where you started from.
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to head back
23
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To move towards a certain place.
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to head for
24
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When you learn details about something or someone.
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to hear about
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When you learn about something or someone.
to hear of
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To make something warmer or cause a rise in temperature. When a situation or event becomes serious, exciting or intense.
to heat up
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To assist people with something.
to help out
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To suddenly have a solution to a problem or an interesting idea.
to hit on sth
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When you don’t forgive or have little respect for someone because of something they did.
to hold against
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To delay something. To prevent something or someone from doing something.
to hold off
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To continue doing an activity even though it may be difficult.
to keep at sth
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To avoid getting close to someone or something.
to keep away
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To stop yourself or other people from doing something.
to keep from
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To stay within certain limits, topics or areas.
to keep to
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To continue to do something.To be up to date on things.
to keep up (with)
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To illegally pay extra money to someone as part of the price.
to kick back
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To force someone to leave an organization or place.
to kick out
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When someone is struck hard enough to cause them to lose consciousness.
to knock out
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To place something on a surface or an object. To create and implement a new policy, rule, etc.
to lay down
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When a period of time or a series of events cause an event, situation or conversation to happen.
to lead up to
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When you don’t take something or someone with you when you leave. To forget or try not to think about an unpleasant memory or experience.
to leave behind
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To not include someone or something.
to leave out
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To disappoint someone.
to let down
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To allow someone or something to enter a place.
to let in
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To allow someone to leave a car, bus, train etc.
to let off
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When you give permission for someone to leave or be released from a place.
to let out
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To make someone feel better.
to lift up
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To illuminate something.
to light up
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When a conversation is changed or a person changes to become less serious.
to lighten up
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To form in a row one after another or side-by-side.
to line up
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To endure an illness, disability or other kind of situation.
to live with sth
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To secure people or things behind a closed door.
to lock in
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When you don’t have the key or passcode to enter a secured place.
to lock out
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When you intentionally put people in prison/jail or in a confined space where they can’t get out.
to lock up
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When you consider someone or something as unimportant or with little to no value. The opposite of yesterday’s phrasal verb.
to look down on
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To anticipate a future event because it either makes you happy and/or you benefit from it.
to look forward to
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To investigate or get more facts about something.
to look into sth
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To remain alert.
to look out
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When a situation becomes better. To search and find someone or something.
to look up
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This particular phrasal verb is used to say you view someone with respect and/or admiration.
to look up to sb
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To go in a certain direction, typically in a hurry. To create a result or situation.
to make for
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To understand the meaning of something.
to make sth of sth
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To invent a story. To do something to compensate for what you didn’t get a chance to do at an earlier time. o apply cosmetics to your face.When people stop being mad at each other.
to make up
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To put or combine different things together so they’ll merge successfully. To confuse two things with each other. To confuse two things with each other.
to mix up
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To try to play with or repair a device that you have no true knowledge about. To behave in a careless and/or silly manner.
to monkey around
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To reduce the number of options or possibilities.
to narrow down
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An action meant to reciprocate or revenge a past action taken by someone else.
to pay back
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When your hard work is rewarded. To repay money that is owed to a person or entity.
to pay off
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When you are able to recognize something or someone from a group. To choose something or someone from a variety of choices.
to pick out
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To get someone or something from somewhere. To learn or acquire something new. To answer the phone. To increase or improve after a slow start.
to pick up
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When you accumulate more and more of something unpleasant.
to pile up
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To prepare for a future event or situation.
to plan ahead
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When you have the intention to do something.
to plan on
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To connect an electrical appliance/machine to another piece of equipment or to a power source.
to plug in/into
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To make someone aware of something.
to point out
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To produce a hard copy of a computer document.
to print out
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To succeed in doing something difficult or tricky. To start to move your vehicle.
to pull off
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In the context of vehicles, it means leaving a parking space and entering the street or other driving area. When someone reveals a weapon, usually in a threatening way. When someone wants to cancel an arrangement or agreement or to stop being involved in something.
to pull out
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To drive your vehicle to the side of the road to stop.
to pull over
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To place something where it cannot be seen or isn’t in the way of other things.
to put away
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To kill an animal because it’s ill, too old or considered a threat to society.
to put down
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When you invest or make a deposit. In this example, the amount almost always separates the verb. When you send someone to a place such as a hospital, jail, mental institution, etc. as needed or required. When you use time or effort to accomplish something.
to put in
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To become offended by someone or something. To postpone doing something.
to put off
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To extinguish a fire, cigarette, etc. To issue or publish a book, newsletter, magazine, etc.
to put out
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To assemble or connect the parts of something. To make or create plans or a meal.
to put together
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When you add something to a wall, door or window. To contribute money to help pay for something. To fight, resist, or argue about something you’re against.
to put up
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To tolerate or accept something that you’d rather not.
to put up with
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When someone asks for a price for something that is too high, when someone cheats or steals.
rip off
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When someone or something is excluded as a possibility.
to rule out
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To become very busy doing a lot of different things.
to run around
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To hit someone or something with a vehicle. To give a detailed explanation of something from start to end.
to run down
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When you have nothing left to use, consume, sell, etc.
to run out
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When someone is injured or killed by a vehicle. When you practice for something, typically a performance or speech. When someone or something continues past a limited time. When something contains too much liquid.
to run over
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To ensure the top of a container/bottle is sealed.
to screw on
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To make a mistake or do something really bad.
to screw up
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To seriously think about doing something.
to see about doing sth
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When all the inventory of a particular product has been purchased. To do something against your moral principles in exchange for success.
to sell out
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To begin living a stable and routine life.
to settle down
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To accept something even though it’s not what you want or need.
to settle for
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To mix something in a container by shaking it. To upset, shock, or frighten someone. To make major changes in a business or organization, especially to make improvements.
to shake up
