Phrasal verbs n°1 Flashcards
Aim at
Point a weapon at someone or something
Request smh
Ask for
Ask someone to go with for a special occasion
Ask out
Walk or drive a vehicle backwards / Help sme
Back up
Leave an emotional situation
Back off
To withdraw your position in a fight argument
Back down
Hit sme repeatedly
Beat up
Make changes or improvement
Beef up
Feel confident abt smh
Believe in
When the wind removes smh from its place
Blow off
Use your teeth to bite a piece of smh
Bite off
Extinguish or make a flame stop burning
Blow out
When the wind moves an object or person from what it was
Blow away
Make smh explode
Blow up
Determined or analyzed the solution for smh
Boil down to
Enter a place illegally with the use of force
Break in
When sme loses self control
Break down
Remove a part of smh with force
Break off
Escape from a place / situation / way of life
Break out
Stop a fight / relationship
Break up
Make a way through a barrier or a surface
Break through
Return smh you’ve borrowed
Bring back
Bring sme/smh from one place to another
Bring over
Bring sme/smh from a lower level place to a higher
Bring up
Remove smh (dust/insect) with your hand
Brush off
Add a fixture/component to a certain place through construction
Build in/into
Practice/Review your knowledge haven’t used in a while
Brush up
Meet sme by accident
Bump into
When sme uses fire to destroy a structure
Burn down
When a candle stops burning bc there is nothing left to burn OR Mental condition
Burn out
Call sme again
Call back
Interrupt a conversation or activity
Butt in
Request that sme come and help
Call in
Cancel an event that has been previously planned
Call off
To be chosen to take part in a military mission or football
Call up
Do smh out of the ordinary due to strong emotions
Carry away
Become less violent, nervous, excited
Calm down
Be careful for Sme or smh
Care for
Continue doing smh despite an obstacle
Carry on
Move smh/smh from one place to another
Carry out
Understand or realize smh
Catch on
Unfaithful
Cheat on
Move faster to reach sme/smh ahead
Catch up
Refrain from doing smh bc of fear
Chicken out
Register in a plane or hotel
Check-in
Leave the hotel
Check out
Cut smh into pieces with a knife
Chop up
Clean the inside of smh thoroughly
Clean out
Do smh to solve a pb or misunderstanding
Clean up
When the activities or services of business permanently end
Close down
When smh in a valve/drain prevent the flow of liquid
Clog up
Block an entrance or pathway
Close off
Smh happens or occurs
Come about
The way other ppl receive smh or sme
Come across
When smh beaks/separates piece by piece
Come apart
Move from a higher to a lower position or from north to south
Come down
When a situation is reduced to a certain outcome
Come down to
When smh is removed or breaks off from where it’s originally attached to
Come off
Appear on tv or radio
Come on
When you start to experience the symptoms of disease / illness
Come down with