Phrasal Verbs Flashcards
Add up
Make sense
Ask after
Inquire about
Back out
Decide not to do something
Back down
Yeld in an argument
Bargain for
Take into account
Be into something
To like something a lot
Bear out
Confirm the truth
Beat up
Hit and kick somebody many times
Blow up
Destroy by an explosion
Break down
1) stop working
2) lose control of feelings
3) fail
4) separate under headings
Break in
Enter by force
Break into
1) enter by force
2) interrupt
Break off
End a relationship
Break out
Begin suddenly
Break through
Advance
Break to
Tell (bad news) to somebody in a kind way
Break up
1) stop for holidays
2) end a relationship
Bring about
Cause to happen
Bring back
Cause to recall
Bring down
Cause to fall
Bring forward
Move something to an earlier date or time
Bring in
Create profit
Bring on
Cause
Bring out
Put on market
Bring round
1) cause to regain consciousness
2) persuade, bring over to
Bring up
1) raise a child
2) mention / introduce a subject
Call back
Telephone again in return to a phone call
Call up
Mobilise for military service
Call on
To pay a visit to someone
Calm down
Become less upset
Be carried away
Be very excited
Carry off
Handle a difficult situation succesfully
Carry on
To continue
Carry out
1) conduct an experiment
2) act according to something
3) complete a plan
Carry through
Carry succesfully in spite of difficulty
Catch up with
Reach the same standard
Catch on
Become popular
Check in
Arrive at a hotel
Cheer up
Become more cheerful
Clear away
Put away things you have used
Come across
Find / meet by chance
Come by
Obtain
Come down to
Be passed on to sb by inheritance
Come down with
Become ill; go down with
Come into
Inherit
Come off
Succeed
Come out
1) begin to blossom
2) be published
3) be able to be removed
Call round
1) visit casually
2) recover consciousness
Come to
Amount to a total
Come up
1) be mentioned
2) arrise; occur
Come up to
1) aproach
2) equal
Come up with
Find ( a solution )
Come about
Happen
Come in for
Receive especially criticism
Come up against
Meet a difficulty
Count on
Rely on
Crop up
Happen unexpectedly
Cut across
Take a shorter way
Cut back (on)
Reduce, cut down on
Cut in
1) move suddenly in front of another car
2) interrupt
Cut into
Interrupt
Cut off
1) disconnect
2) isolate
Cut out
Omit
Be cut out for
Be suited for
Cut up
Cut into small pieces
Do away with
Abolish
Do down
Speak badly of somebody
Do in
Kill
Do up
1) Fasten, tie
2) To decorate
Do with
Want
Do without
Live without
Draw up
Come to a stop
Drop in
Pay a visit
Drop off
Fall asleep
Ease up
Reduce in degree, speed, intensity
Eat into
Use more than expected
End up
Finish up, result in
Face up to
Have courage to deal with
Fall apart
Disintegrate
Fall back on
Turn to somebody for help when other plans have failed
Fall behind with
Fail to keep up with
Fall for
1) fall in love with somebody
2) be deceived
Fall in
Collapse
Fall in with
Agree with
Fall into
1) be devided into
2) begin; enter a state
Fall on
1) attack
2) eat hungrily
Fall out with
To quarrel (a certa)
Fall through
Fail to be completed
Fall about
Show amusement
Fell up to
Feel capable of doing
Follow up
Act upon a suggestion
Get across
Sucessfully comunicate ideas
Get along
Continue despite difficulties
Get along with
Be on friendly terms; get on with
Get at
Mean
Get away with
Escape punishment for a illegal act
Get back
Recover possession of
Get down
1) swallow with difficulty
2) depress
Get down to
Start doing something seriously
Get on
1) enter (bus train)
2) make progress
Get on with
To be on good terms with
Get out
Become known
Get over
Recover from
Get round
Persuade, bring round
Get round to
Find time to do something
Get through
1) finish (a piece of work)
2) go on living through difficult times
Get through to
Reach by phone
Get up
Rise from bed
Give away
1) reveal
2) give something free of charge
Get on for
Aproach a certain age, time, number
Get over with
Come to the end of something (usually unpleasant)
Get up to
Do something
Give back
Return
Give in
Surrender
Give off
Emit (fumes smells heat)
Give out
1) come to an end
2) distribute
Go after
Pursue
Go ahead
Be allowed to happen
Go away
Cease
Go back on
Break a promise
Go by
Base one’s idea on
Go down with
Become ill
Go for
1) attack
2) apply for a job
Go in for
Take part in
Go off
1) explode
2) (of an alarm) ring
3) spoil
4) stop liking something
Go on
1) continue; carry on
2) happen