verbs / phrasal verbs Flashcards

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To stand out

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To be easily seen or noticed

(stood out - stood out)

The black lettering really stands out on that orange background.

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To tackle

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to try to stop a problem

(tackled - tackled)

We must find new ways to tackle crime

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To drop out

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To stop doing something before you have completely finished

(dropped - dropped) / (+ of)

He dropped out of school at 14

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To arrange

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to make plans for something to happen / to put objects in a particular order or position

(arranged - arranged)

I’ve arranged a meeting with him

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To drop by

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To visit someone for a short time, usually without arranging it before

(dropped - dropped)

He dropped by my office this morning

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To imply

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To communicate an idea or feeling without saying it directly / to involve something or make it necessary (formal)

(implied - implied)

Are you implying (that) I’m fat? / Socialism implies equality

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To infer

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To form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have

(inferred - inferred)

I inferred from her expression that she wanted to leave

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To display

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To show a feeling / to show words, pictures, etc. on a screen

(displayed - displayed)

My grandfather disapproved of displaying emotion in public

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To seek

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To try to find or get something

(sought - sought)

I am seeking advice on the matter

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To depict

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To represent or show something in a picture or story

(Depicted - depicted)

Her paintings depict the lives of ordinary people in the last century

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To convey

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Communicate, express

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To portray

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To represent or describe someone or something in a painting, film, book, or other artistic work

(potreyed - potreyed)

The painting portrays a beautiful young woman in a blue dress

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To reach out

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To try to communicate with a person or a group of people, usually in order to help or involve them

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To slip out

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If a remark slips out, you say it without intending to / Slip out (something) to leave quietly or quickly so that no one will notice

Before I could say anything she had gathered her books and slipped out the door

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To swallow up

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If a person or thing is swallowed up by something, they disappear into it so that you cannot see them any more / If one thing is swallowed up by another, it becomes part of the first thing and no longer has a separate identity of its own.

During the 1980s monster publishing houses started to swallow up smaller companies

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To come down

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If a price or a level comes down, it becomes lower / (of rain or snow) fall, in particular fall heavily / (of a building or other structure) collapse or be demolished / reach a decision or recommendation in favour of one side or another

House prices have come down recently

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To gear up

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To prepare for an activity or event

Politicians are already gearing up for the next election

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To carry through

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If you carry something through, you do it or complete it, often in spite of difficulties.

We don’t have the confidence that the U.N. will carry through a sustained program

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To wipe out

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To wipe out something such as a place or a group of people or animals means to destroy them completely

The man is a fanatic who is determined to wipe out any opposition

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To reign

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to be the king or queen of a country

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To caper

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to run and jump about in an energetic, happy way

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To gaze

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to look at something or someone for a long time, especially in surprise or admiration, or because you are thinking about something else

Annette gazed admiringly at Warren as he spoke

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To foresee

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To know about something before it happens

Foresaw - forseen

None of these activities had been foreseen in the early days of the project

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To topple

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to (cause to) lose balance and fall down

The tree toppled and fell

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To outweigh

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to be greater or more important than something else

It would have taken a lot of failure to outweigh it

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To smooth (it) over

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to make problems, difficulties, or disagreements less serious or easier to solve, usually by talking to the people involved

Would you like me to try to smooth things over between you and your parents?

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To dread

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to feel extremely worried or frightened about something that is going to happen or that might happen

Temer

He’s dreading the exam - he’s sure he’s going to fail.

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To fetch

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to go to another place to get something or someone and bring it, him, or her back

Buscar / traer / alcanzar / ir a buscar

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To reassure

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to comfort someone and stop them from worrying

Tranquilizar

I was nervous on my first day at college, but I was reassured to see some friendly faces

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To dash down

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To travel (to some place) very quickly or briefly, especially in order to accomplish some task / To write something very quickly

They dashed down to the spot

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to carry out

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If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it

Dr Carter is carrying out research on early Christian art

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to carry on

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to continue doing something, or to cause something to continue

Seguir adelante / continuar

Let’s carry on this discussion at some other time

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To issue

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to produce or provide something official

expedir

The office will be issuing permits on Tuesday and Thursday mornings

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To make up

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invent a story or plan / make up your mind means decidete

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To conceal

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to prevent something from being seen or known about

esconder

Is there something you’re concealing from me?

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