phrasal verbs Flashcards

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To take care of, to make sure that someone is safe and well

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look after

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To turn your eyes away from someone or sth that you were looking at

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look away

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3
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To search for sth or someone

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look for

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4
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To find out more about sth in order to improve the situation

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look into

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5
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To be careful, to avoid inmminent danger

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look out

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To examine sth, usually quickly

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look throught

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7
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to think sth or someone is inferior

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look down on

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8
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to connect someone on the telephone

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put through

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9
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to postpone, to make someone dislike or nor want sth

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Put off

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10
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to tolerate, to bear patiently

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Put up with

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11
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to dress yourself in a place of clothing

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Put on

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12
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to stop a fire burning

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put out

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13
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to save for the future (especially money)

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put aside

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14
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to give sb accommodation in your house

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put up

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15
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to return sth to its proper place

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put away

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16
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to create sth by joining or gathering parts together

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put together

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17
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to propose or suggest sth

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put foward

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18
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to escape from sb or a place

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get away (from)

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19
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to find the time to do sth

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get round to

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20
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to avoid soing sth , to leave a vehicle

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get out of

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21
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to progress, to be succesful

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get on

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22
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to persuade sth to agree or to do what you want

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get round

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23
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to suceed in speaking sb on the phone

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get through

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24
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to do sth bad without being punished for it

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get away with

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to reach a place, thing etc to mean
get at
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to move away to receive again
get back
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to recover from an illness
get over
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to leave the ground, to remove clothes
take off
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to understand or remember sth that you hear or read
take in
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to be or look like a part or relation
take after
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to begin a hobby pastime
take up
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to begin to deal with sth, such as a job or responsability
take on
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to make a note of sth
take down
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to get sth from the place it is in
take out
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to take control of a business company
take over
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to feel or begin to feel a liking for sb
take to
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to behave badly towards sb bacuse you are angry about sth else
take out on
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to be produced or published, to appear
come out
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to meer or find sth or someone by chance
come across
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to become concious again
come to
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to turn out well, to succeed
come off
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to be left money by sb who has died
come into
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to happen
come about
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to begin to have or suffer from an illness
come down with
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to attack, to be directed at or toward
come at
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to return, to become popular again
come back
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to think of an idea answer etc
come up with
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to happen, to continue doing sth
go on
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to take an exam or enter a competition
go in for
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to become rotten, to explode
go off
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to manage without sth that you usually have or need
go without
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to become ill, especially with an infectious disease
go down with
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to leave your house to go to a social event
go out
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to match, to look at sth in a careful way
go with
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to be enough for everyone
go round
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to study or look at ath in a careful way
go through
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to increase to be built
go up
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to return sth to its owner
give back
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to stop an activity or effort, to quit
give up
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to send (light, energy) out from a source
give off
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to give sth to someone because you do not want or need it
give away
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to hand sth to a person in charge
give in
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to force a way into a house
break into
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to stop working properly
break down
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to end a relationship, to finish or end
break up
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to escape from a prision, jail etc
break out
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to stop speaking suddenly
break off
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to reduce the seixe, amount or number of sth
cut down on
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to go across sth to make your journey shorter
cut across
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to divide sth into smaller pieces
cut up
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to join a conversation suddendly, to interrupt
cut in
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to remoce by cutting, to separate
cut off
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to take care of and teach a child who is growing up
bring up
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to make sth happen, to cause
bring about
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to bring back from unconsciousness
bring round
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to produce sth, to publish sth
bring out
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to introduce a new law
bring in
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to appear, to arrive, to be found
turn up
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to stop water, gas or electricity flowing
turn off
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to happen, to prove to be
turn out
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to turn a page on to its other side
turn over
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to reject or refuse to consider an offer, a proposal
turn down
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to start a journey, to explode
set off
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to create or establish sth for a particular purpose
set up
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to come and remain for some time
set in
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to begin to do sth
set about
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to delay the progress of someone or sth
set back
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to stop doing or having sth, to make sth end
do away with
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to repair and decorate a building
do up
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to handle without sth
do without
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to kill someone, to make someone very tired
do in
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to be helped by having sth
do with
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to move towards a place, to help or allow sth to happen
make for
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to leave, especially in a hurry or secretly
make off
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to invent, to become friends again after a quarrel
make up
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to replace sth that is gone or lost, to correct a bad situation
make up for
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to see, hear or understand sth
make out