PHRASAL VERB

 

PHRASAL VERB

Act

 

§                  Act on: Act decisively on the basis of information received or deduced

§                  Act on: Take action against something

§                  Act on: Affect something

§                  Act out: Perform a scene from a play, a charade or an exercise

§                  Act out: Perform a fantasy in reality

§                  Act out: Express one’s feelings through disruptive actions

§                  Act out: Express ideas or desires through actions rather than words

§                  Act up: Misbehave; cause trouble

§                  Act up to: Equal in action; fulfill in practice

§                  Act upon: Take action on the basis of information received or deduced

 

Answer

 

§                 Answer back: Reply impertinently; to talk back

§                 Answer back: Reply to a question at a later time

§                 Answer for: Be held responsible for; to take the blame for something

§                Answer for: Guarantee

§                Answer for: Vouch for (someone); to attest to the character of (someone)

§                Answer to: Be accountable or responsible to

§                Answer to: Justify oneself to (someone)

§                Answer to: Respond to (a name); to treat as one’s own name

 

Ask

 

• Ask after: Enquire about someone’s health, how life is going.
• Ask around (round): Enquire of different people about something
• Ask for: Request
• Ask for: Increase the likelihood of something by persisting in some action; to invite
• Ask in: Invite someone to enter one’s house
• Ask out: Invite somebody, especially on a date
• Ask round: Invite someone to your house
• Ask over: Invite them to come from their house to your house

 

Back

 

• Back down: Take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously has or has planned to
• Back into: Rely upon another team’s loss in order to advance to the post-season
• Back off: Move backwards away from something
• Back off: Become less aggressive, particularly when one had appeared committed to act
• Back off: Lower the setting of
• Back onto: Reverse a vehicle onto something
• Back onto: Overlook something from the rear
• Back out: Reverse a vehicle from a confined space
• Back out: Withdraw from something one has agreed to do
• Back out: Undo a change
• Back up: Move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so
• Back up: Move a vehicle backward
• Back up: Undo one’s actions
• Back up: Reconsider one’s thoughts
• Back up: Copy (data) as a security measure
• Back up: Provide support or the promise of support
• Back up: Halt the flow or movement of something

 

Be

 

• Be above: Be too good, classy or mature to do something; to disdain
• Be above: Outrank
• Be along: Arrive
• Be around: Be alive, existent, or present
• Be around: Be near; to socialize with
• Be cut out for: Be suitable, have the necessary qualities
• Be down: Be depressed
• Be down to: Be reduced or less
• Be down on: Have negative feelings toward someone
• Be down with: Be ill
• Be fed up: Be bored, upset or sick of something
• Be in for: Be able to expect or anticipate, generally said of something unpleasant
• Be in for: Be incarcerated for
• Be in on: Be a party to a secret shared by a small group of people
• Be on about: Talk about; mean, intend
• Be on to: Figure out; to realize the truth
• Be out for: Seek or pursue, especially to determinedly pursue something to one’s own benefit
• Be there for: Be available to provide comfort and support for someone, especially in a period of difficulty
• Be snowed under: Have too much work
• Be taken aback: Be shocked or surprised
• Be taken with: Like something or someone very much
• Be up for: To want to do something
• Be up to: Do or be involved in doing
• Be with: Have sex with
• Be with: Date or be boyfriend/girlfriend with
• Be with: Agree with someone
• Be with: Understand someone’s point or intention

 

Beat

 

• Beat down: Strike with great force
• Beat down: Haggle with someone to sell at a lower price
• Beat off: Waste time
• Beat out: Sound a rhythm on a percussion instrument such as a drum
• Beat out: Extinguish
• Beat out: Defeat by a narrow margin
• Beat up: Give a severe beating to, to assault violently hitting the victim repeatedly
• Beat up: Feel badly guilty and accuse oneself over something

 

Blow

 

• Blow away: Cause to go away by blowing, or by wind
• Blow away: Disperse or to depart on currents of air
• Blow away: Kill (someone) by shooting them
• Blow away: Flabbergast; to impress greatly
• Blow down: Knock over with an air current, most often wind
• Blow off: Let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose
• Blow off: Shirk or disregard
• Blow off: Forcibly disconnect something by use of a firearm or explosive device
• Blow out: Extinguish something, especially a flame
• Blow out: Deflate quickly on being punctured
• Blow out: Be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapour
• Blow over: Blow on something causing it to topple
• Blow over: Be knocked down by wind
• Blow over: Pass naturally; to go away; to settle or calm down
• Blow past: Easily overcome or go around a safeguard or limit
• Blow up: Explode or be destroyed by explosion
• Blow up: Cause (something or someone) to explode
• Blow up: Inflate or fill with air
• Blow up: Enlarge or zoom in
• Blow up: Suddenly get very angry

Break

 

• Break away: Leave suddenly
• Break away: Become separated, literally or figuratively
• Break down: Fail, to cease to function
• Break down: Render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally
• Break down: Render or to become weak and ineffective
• Break down: Decay, to decompose
• Break down: Divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of
• Break down: Digest
• Break even: Neither gain nor lose money
• Break even: Stay the same; to neither advance nor regress
• Break in: Enter a place by force or illicit means
• Break in: Cause to function more naturally through use or wear
• Break off: End a relationship.
• Break off: To stop (temporarily)
• Break off: To become separate (from something)
• Break into: Enter illegally or by force, especially in order to commit a crime
• Break into: Open or begin to use
• Break into: Successfully enter a profession or business
• Break into: Begin suddenly
• Break out: Escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
• Break out: Begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
• Break through: To break a way through (sth solid)
• Break through: To make new and important discoveries
• Break up: Break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart
• Break up: End a relationship
• Break up: Dissolve; to part
• Break up: Break or separate into pieces
• Break up: Stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting

 

Bring

 

• Bring about: Cause to take place
• Bring about: Accomplish, achieve
• Bring along: Bring someone or something to certain place.
• Bring around: Persuade or convince someone.
• Bring around: Bring something with you when you visit.
• Bring around: Get someone talking about something.
• Bring back: Fetch something
• Bring back: Cause someone to remember something from the past
• Bring back: Reenact an old rule or law
• Bring down: Make a legitimate rulership lose their position of power
• Bring down: Reduce
• Bring down: Make something fall to the ground
• Bring down: Make someone feel bad emotionally
• Bring forth: Produce, bear as fruit
• Bring forth: Give birth
• Bring forth: Create, generate, bring into existence
• Bring forth: Display, produce, bring out for display
• Bring forward: Make something happen earlier than originally planned
• Bring in: Move something indoors
• Bring off: Succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult
• Bring out: Elicit, evoke, or emphasize a particular quality
• Bring out: Place (something new for public sale) on the market; roll out
• Bring out: Make a shy person more confident
• Bring out: Cause a visible symptom such as spots or a rash
• Bring round: Bring something when coming
• Bring round: Resuscitate; to cause to regain consciousness
• Bring round: Change someone’s opinion or point of view
• Bring to: Restore consciousness
• Bring to: Make something equal to a different amount
• Bring up: Mention
• Bring up: Raise
• Bring up: Uncover, to bring from obscurity
• Bring up: Turn on power or start, as of a machine
• Bring up: Vomit

Call

 

• Call away: Summon; to cause to depart
• Call down: Pray for; to request from God
• Call for: Shout out in order to summon (a person)
• Call for: Ask for in a loud voice
• Call for: Request, demand
• Call for: Necessitate, demand
• Call for: Stop at a place and ask for (someone)
• Call in: Communicate with a base etc, by telephone
• Call in: Summon someone, especially for help or advice
• Call off: Recall; to cancel or call a halt to
• Call on: Visit (a person); to pay a call to
• Call on: Select (a student in a classroom, etc.) to provide an answer
• Call on: Request or ask something of (a person); to select for a task
• Call on: Have recourse to; to summon up
• Call on: Correct; to point out an error or untruth
• Call out: Specify, especially in detail
• Call out: Order into service; to summon into service
• Call out: Challenge; denounce; point out; charge

 

Carry

 

• Carry off: Transport away
• Carry off: Act convincingly; to succeed at giving the impression of (e.g.) knowledge, confidence, or familiarity
• Carry off: Cause death
• Carry on: Continue or proceed as before
• Carry on: Take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, rather than check it
• Carry on: Have or maintain
• Carry on: Act or behave; especially to misbehave so as to attract attention
• Carry on: Have an illicit sexual relationship
• Carry out: Hold while moving it out
• Carry out: Fulfill
• Carry over: Transfer (something) to a later point in time

 

Check

 

• Check out: Confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility when leaving
• Check out: Withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded
• Check out: Record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something there from, as from a library or shop
• Check out: Examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate
• Check out: Prove (after an investigation) to be the case / in order
• Check up: Verify through brief investigation or examination
• Check up on: Examine or inspect something in order to determine its condition

 

Come

 

§          Come about: Come to pass; to develop; to occur; to take place; to happen

§          Come across: Give an appearance or impression; to project a certain image

§         Come across: Find, usually by accident

§         Come after: Pursue, follow

§        Come after: Follow, to succeed, to be the successor of

§        Come along: Accompany

§       Come along: Progress; to make progress

§       Come apart: Break, separate

§       Come around: Change one’s mind

§       Come at: Get to, especially with effort or difficulty

§       Come at: Attack, to harass

§      Come at: Accept (a situation); to agree to do; to try

§      Come away: Become separated from something away

§       Come away: Distance oneself (from)

§      Come back: Return to one’s possession, especially of memories

§      Come back: Return to a former state, usually a desirable one

§      Come back: Retort

§       Come before: Appear publicly in front of someone superior

§      Come before: Be of greater importance (than)

§       Come before: Be judged, decided or discussed by authority

§      Come before: Precede

§      Come between: Affect negatively or cause discord between (someone) and another person

§     Come by: Obtain; to get, especially by chance or involuntarily

§     Come by: Come near to; to pass; to visit

§      Come down: Descend, fall down, collapse

§     Come down: Be demolished

§     Come down: Decrease

§     Come down: Reach a decision

§      Come down: Be passed through time

§      Come down: Return from an elevated state of consciousness or emotion

§     Come down on: Punish

§     Come down upon: Criticize, reprimand severely

§     Come down to: Reach by moving down or reducing

§     Come down to: Depend upon, basically, ultimately or in essence

§     Come down with: Contract or get; to show symptoms of an illness

§     Come for: Search for something or someone, in order to catch them/it

§     Come forth: Move forward and into view, to emerge, to appear

§     Come from: Have as one’s birthplace or nationality

§     Come in: Enter

§     Come in: Arrive

§     Come in: Become relevant, applicable or useful

§     Come in: Become available

§     Come in: Have a strong enough signal to be able to be received well

§      Come in: Join or enter; to begin playing with a group

§      Come in: Begin transmitting

§      Come in: Function in the indicated manner

§      Come in: Finish a race or similar competition in a particular position

§       Come in for: Be subjected to

§     Come into: Inherit (money)

§     Come into: Be a factor in

§     Come off: Have some success, to succeed

§     Come off: Appear; to seem; to project a certain quality

§     Come on: Show sexual or relational interest through words or sometimes actions

§     Come on: Appear on a television broadcast

§     Come on: Progress, to develop

§     Come on: Encounter, discover; to come upon.

§     Come on: Make a romantic or sexual advance to; to hit on

§     Come on: Start to

§     Come on: Be discovered, be revealed

§     Come on: Be published, be issued

§     Come on: End up or result

§     Come on: Come out of the closet

§     Come on: Be deducted from

§     Come on: Leave (out of), exit from

§     Come on: Express one’s opinion openly

§     Come out in: Be afflicted by

§     Come out in: Say something unexpected

§      Come out of: To develop from something

§      Come out with: Say something publicly and unexpectedly

§      Come out with: Make something available/to be produced or published

§      Come over: Affect

§      Come round: Change one’s opinion to a prevailing one

§      Come round: Recover consciousness, to come to

§      Come round: Visit someone’s home or other regular place

§      Come through: Survive, to endure

§      Come through: Succeed

§       Come through: Not to let somebody down, keep one’s promise

§      Come through with: Provide something needed

§      Come to: Recover consciousness after fainting etc.

§      Come to: Total; to amount to

§      Come to: Devote attention to in due course; to come around to

§      Come to: Befall; to affect; to happen to; to come upon

§      Come to: Regard or specify, as narrowing a field of choices by category

§      Come together: Arrive at a destination with someone after having travelled there with each other

§      Come under: Come underneath (something)

§       Come under: Be included or classified under

§       Come under: Be subjected to, be under the auspices of

§       Come up: Come towards, to approach

§       Come up: Emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly

§       Come up: Come to attention, present itself; to arrive or appear

§       Come up: Appear

§       Come up: Draw near in time

§       Come up: Rise (above the horizon)

§       Come up: Begin to feel the effects of a recreational drug

§       Come up to: Approach

§       Come up with: Invent, create, or think of.

§       Come upon: Come across; to encounter; to stumble upon; to discover or find

§       Come upon: Befall; to affect; to happen to

§       Come with: Join and come along

 

Crack

 

§       Crack down: Enforce more stringently or more thoroughly

§       Crack down on: Enforce laws or punish (something) more vigilantly

§      Crack on: Continue at a (normally uninteresting) task

§      Crack on: Continue apace

§      Crack up: Laugh heartily

§      Crack up: Cause to laugh heartily

§      Crack up: Become insane; to suffer a mental break down

§      Crack up: Cry up; to extol

§      Crack out: Produce in large volumes mechanically or as if by machine

 

Cut

 

§  Cut back: Reduce spending

§  Cut back: Reduce consumption

§  Cut down: Bring down by cutting

§  Cut down: Reduce the amount of something

§  Cut off: Stop providing funds to someone

§  Cut off: End abruptly

§  Cut off: Interrupt (someone speaking)

§  Cut off: Turn off or switch off (an electrical device)

§  Cut out: Refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop/cease (doing something)

§  Cut out: Remove, omit

§  Cut out: Separate from a herd

§  Cut out: Stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected

§  Cut out: Leave suddenly

§  Cut out: Arrange

§  Cut through: Deal with an issue quickly

§  Cut through: Take a shortcut through

§  Cut up: Cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections

§  Cut up: Lacerate; wound by multiple lacerations; injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting

§  Cut up: Severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism

§  Cut up: Comprise a particular selection of runners

 

Fall

 

§  Fall about: Laugh so much that one’s entire body moves somewhat uncontrollably

§  Fall apart: Disintegrate

§  Fall apart: Be emotionally in crisis

§  Fall away: Cease to support a person or cause

§  Fall behind: Be late (for a regular event)

§  Fall behind: Be progressively below average in performance

§  Fall down: Fall to the ground, to collapse

§  Fall down: Fail

§  Fall for: Be fooled; to walk into a trap or respond to a scam or trick

§  Fall for: Fall in love with someone

§  Fall in: Collapse inwards

§  Fall in: Come to an end; to terminate; to lapse

§  Fall in with: Join (a group of people)

§  Fall in with: Accept

§  Fall into: Go into something by falling

§  Fall into: Enter something without having planned it

§  Fall into: Be classified as; to fall under

§  Fall off: Become detached or to drop from

§  Fall off: Diminish in size, value etc.

§  Fall on: Experience; to suffer; to fall upon

§  Fall on: Be assigned to; to acquire a new responsibility, duty or burden

§  Fall on: Occur on a particular day

§  Fall out: Come out of something by falling

§  Fall out: Cease to be on friendly terms

§  Fall out: Leave one’s current location to report for duty at a new location

§  Fall through: Be unsuccessful, abort, come to nothing/naught; to be cancelled; not to proceed

§  Fall under: Belong to for purposes of categorization

§  Fall upon: Fall on; to experience; to suffer

 

Fill

 

§  Fill in: Fill; to replace material that is absent or has been removed

§  Fill in: Inform somebody, especially to supply someone missing or missed information

§  Fill in: Substitute for somebody or something

§  Fill in: Beat up; to physically assault

§  Fill out: Complete a form or questionnaire with requested information

§  Fill out: Have one’s physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight

§  Fill up: Fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel

§  Fill up: Annoy, or displease, by taunting, or by excessive nagging

§  Fill up: Satisfy someone’s hunger

 

Get

 

§  Get about: Be mobile, physically active

§  Get about: Become widely known

§  Get about: Visit a variety of different places

§  Get across: Cross; to move from one side (of something) to the other, literally or figuratively

§  Get across: Make an idea evident; to successfully explain a thought or feeling; put over

§  Get after: Move into action in pursuit of something

§  Get after: Move into action in attempt to catch or defeat another

§  Get after: Attempt to convince another to move into action

§  Get ahead: Progress

§  Get ahead of: Move in front of

§  Get along: Interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble

§  Get along: Survive; to do well enough

§  Get along with: Have a good relationship with someone

§  Get along with: Deal with, handle

§  Get around: Move to the other side of an obstruction

§  Get around: Come around something

§  Get around: Avoid or bypass an obstacle

§  Get around: Circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore

§  Get around: Transport oneself from place to place

§  Get around: Be sexually promiscuous

§  Get around to: Eventually begin or return to some procrastinated task

§  Get at: Manage to gain access to

§  Get at: Understand or ascertain by investigation

§  Get at: Mean, signify

§  Get at: Attack verbally or physically; to annoy, bother

§  Get at: Persuade by intimidation, to tamper with

§  Get at: Contact someone

§  Get away: Move away (from)

§  Get away: Avoid capture; to escape (from)

§  Get away: Take a break from one’s present circumstances

§  Get away: Start moving; to depart

§  Get away: Slip from one’s control

§  Get away from: Start to talk about something that is not relevant to the discussion

§  Get away with: Eescape punishment for

§  Get back: Return to where one came from

§  Get back: Retrieve, to have an item returned

§  Get back: Do something to hurt or harm someone who has hurt or harmed you

§  Get back at: Retaliate against; to take revenge on

§  Get back to: Return contact with

§  Get behind: Support

§  Get behind with: Be late paying instalments for something

§  Get by: Subsist; to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimal level

§  Get down: Bring or come down; descend

§  Get down: Depress; discourage; fatigue

§  Get down: Swallow

§  Get down: Relax and enjoy oneself completely; be uninhibited in one’s enjoyment

§  Get down: Duck or take cover, usually to avoid harm

§  Get down: Leave the table after dining

§  Get down: Record in writing

§  Get down on: Criticise

§  Get down to: Start working seriously

§  Get in: Get into or inside something, literally or figuratively

§  Get in: Enter a place; to gain access

§  Get in: Secure membership at a selective school

§  Get in: Be elected to some office

§  Get in with: Become involved or associated with

§  Get into: Move into an object, such that one ends up inside it

§  Get into: Reach into an object

§  Get into: Become involved in a discussion, issue, or activity

§  Get into: Enter an unfavourable state

§  Get into: Make behave uncharacteristically

§  Get it: Be punished or scolded

§  Get it on: Have sex

§  Get it on: Engage in a fight

§  Get it on: Hurry up; to get a move on

§  Get it together: To be well-organized and prepared

§  Get it over with: Do or finish, especially said of something unpleasant

§  Get it up: Achieve a penile erection

§  Get off: Move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it

§  Get off: Move (something) from being on top of (something else) to not being on top of it

§  Get off: Disembark, especially from mass transportation

§  Get off: Stop (doing something), to desist from (doing something)

§  Get off: Stop using a piece of equipment, such as a telephone or computer

§  Get off: Complete a shift or a day’s work

§  Get off: Stop touching or interfering with something or someone

§  Get off: Excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner

§  Get off: Experience an orgasm or other sexual pleasure

§  Get off: Kiss; to smooch

§  Get off: Escape (with usually only mild consequences)

§  Get off: Fall asleep

§  Get off: Behave in an presumptuous, rude, or intrusive manner

§  Get off on: Be excited or aroused by; to derive pleasure from

§  Get off on: Have a sexual encounter with

§  Get on: Board or mount (something), especially a vehicle

§  Get on: Be successful

§  Get on: Progress (with)

§  Get on: Become late

§  Get on: Become old

§  Get on: Gave a good relationship

§  Get on: Commence

§  Get on to: Contact (someone) in order to raise or discuss a certain matter

§  Get on to: Progress to; to start working on

§  Get on for: Be near a time

§  Get on with: Proceed with; to begin or continue, especially after an interruption

§  Get on with: Have a good relationship with

§  Get onto: Move onto an object, especially one on which it is possible to stand

§  Get onto: Contact a person or organisation about a particular matter

§  Get onto: Connect, especially to the Internet or a network

§  Get onto: Scold someone

§  Get onto: Introduce someone to something

§  Get out: Leave or escape

§  Get out: Come out of a situation ; to escape a fate

§  Get out: Help someone leave

§  Get out: Leave a vehicle such as a car

§  Get out: Become known

§  Get out: Spend free time out of the house

§  Get out: Publish something, or make a product available

§  Get out: Say something with difficulty

§  Get out: Clean something. To eliminate dirt or stains

§  Get out of: Leave, exit, or become free of

§  Get out of: Circumvent some obligation entirely

§  Get out of: Leave or exit a place

§  Get over: Overcome

§  Get over: Recover (from)

§  Get over: Forget and move on

§  Get over: Successfully communicate; to get across

§  Get over with: Do something quickly and hastily; without procrastination

§  Get rid of: Dispose (of); to remove; to abolish; to lose

§  Get stuck in: Dedicate a large amount of effort towards

§  Get stuck into: Start eating

§  Get stuck into: Criticise someone; tell off; to get angry at; to attack

§  Get taken in: Be fooled; to fall for

§  Get taken in: Be unofficially fostered

§  Get through: Overcome; to endure

§  Get through: Complete; to finish

§  Get through: Be made successfully

§  Get through to: Make someone understand

§  Get through to: Reach a stage in a competition

§  Get to: Reach, arrive at

§  Get to: Have an opportunity to or be allowed to

§  Get to: Affect adversely; to upset or annoy

§  Get to: Track down and intimidate

§  Get together: Meet socially

§  Get up: Move in an upwards direction; to ascend or climb

§  Get up: Rise from one’s bed

§  Get up:

§  Move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up

§  Get up: Materialise; to grow stronger

§  Get up: Bring together, amass

§  Get up: Gather or grow larger by accretion

§  Get up: Criticise

§  Get up: Dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly

§  Get up to: Do something, especially something that you should not do

§  Get used: Become accustomed to something; to acclimate; to adjust

§  Get with: Impregnate

§  Get with: Align oneself with

 

Give

 

§  Give away: Make a gift of (something)

§  Give away: Formally hand over a bride to the bridegroom; often by her father

§  Give away: Unintentionally reveal a secret, or expose someone

§  Give away: Concede an advantage in weight, time, height etc.

§  Give back: Return, restore

§  Give back: Contribute money, goods or, especially, services for charitable purposes, as if in return for one’s own success

§  Give forth: Emit or release something

§  Give forth: Give off an emanation

§  Give in: Collapse or fall

§  Give in: Relent, yield, surrender or admit defeat

§  Give in to: Allow a feeling or desire to control you

§  Give in to: Criticise harshly or punish someone for something.

§  Give it up for/to: Applaud.

§  Give of oneself: Devote oneself unselfishly to a task, especially to give time and energy

§  Give off: Emit; to produce and send forth

§  Give out: Issue; to distribute

§  Give out: Break down, get out of order, fail

§  Give out: Complain, sulk, chastise

§  Give over: Entrust (something) to another

§  Give over: Devote or resign to a particular purpose or activity

§  Give over: Give up; abandon; desert; stop

§  Give up: Surrender (someone or something)

§  Give up: Stop or quit (an activity, etc)

§  Give up: Relinquish (something)

§  Give up: Lose hope concerning (someone or something)

§  Give up: Abandon (someone or something)

§  Give up: Admit defeat, to capitulate

§  Give up on: Lose faith in or stop believing in something or someone.

§  Give up on: Stop feeling hope

§  Give way: Yield to persistent persuasion

§  Give way: Collapse or break under physical stresses

§  Give way: Give precedence to other road users

§  Give way to: Be replaced by something better, cheaper, more modern, etc

§  Give way to: Allow a vehicle to pass in front.

§  Give way to: Surrender to strong emotions

§  Give yourself up: Surrender to the police or authorities.

 

Go

 

§  Go about: Deal with something

§  Go about: Circulate

§  Go across: Move to another side or place

§  Go after: Pursue in attempt to catch another

§  Go after: Pursue an object or a goal

§  Go against: Violate; to breach; to break

§  Go against: Be unfavourable to someone

§  Go against: Be contrary to a trend, feeling or principle

§  Go against: Oppose; to resist

§  Go ahead: To begin

§  Go ahead with: To continue with something

§  Go all out: Reserve nothing; to put forth all possible effort or resources

§  Go along: Participate, cooperate, or conform

§  Go around: Move or spread from person to person

§  Go around: Share with everyone

§  Go at: Try to solve a problem a specific way; to undertake a task

§  Go away: Depart or leave a place

§  Go away: Travel somewhere, especially on holiday or vacation

§  Go away: Become invisible, vanish or disappear

§  Go back: Abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something

§  Go before: To exist or happen in an earlier time

§  Go below: Go below deck on a ship; to leave the top deck of a ship

§  Go by: Pass or go past without much interaction

§  Go by: Be called, to use as a name

§  Go by: Follow; to assume as true for the purposes of making a decision, taking an action, etc.

§  Go down: Descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one

§  Go down: Disappear below the horizon; to set

§  Go down: Decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one

§  Go down: Fall (down), fall to the floor

§  Go down: Be received or accepted

§  Go down: Be recorded or remembered (as)

§  Go down: Take place, happen

§  Go down: perform oral sex

§  Go down: Stop functioning, to go offline

§  Go down with: To become ill with a particular illness

§  Go for: Try for, to attempt to reach

§  Go for: Undertake (an action)

§  Go for: Attack

§  Go for: Develop a strong interest in, especially in a sudden manner; to be infatuated with

§  Go for: Favor, accept

§  Go for: Apply equally to

§  Go for it: Put maximum effort into achieving something

§  Go for it: Decide to do something; especially after a period of hesitation

§  Go forward: Move clocks ahead

§  Go forward: Progress

§  Go in: Be obscured by clouds

§  Go in for: To take an exam or enter a competition

§  Go in for: Like, have an interest in

§  Go in for: Make a career choice

§  Go in with: Join, enter

§  Go into: Get involved in; to investigate or explore

§  Go into: Divide exactly; to be a factor of

§  Go off: Explode

§  Go off: Fire, especially accidentally

§  Go off: Explode metaphorically; to become very angry

§  Go off: Begin clanging or making noise

§  Go off: Depart; to leave

§  Go off: Like less

§  Go off with: Elope, run away with someone

§  Go off with: Steal

§  Go on: Continue in extent

§  Go on: Continue an action

§  Go on to: Proceed

§  Go on about: Talk about a subject frequently or at great length

§  Go on: Use and adopt (information) in order to understand an issue, make a decision, etc.

§  Go on: Happen (occur)

§  Go on at: Keep criticizing somebody or telling them what to do, etc:

§  Go on with: Continue doing.

§  Go out: Leave, especially a building

§  Go out: Leave one’s abode to go to public places

§  Go out: Be eliminated from a competition

§  Go out: Be turned off or extinguished

§  Go out: Discard or meld all the cards in one’s hand

§  Go out: Become out of fashion

§  Go out: Have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates

§  Go out: Fail

§  Go out: Spend the last moments of a show (while playing something)

§  Go out for: Become a candidate, apply for something

§  Go out to: Feel sympathy with someone

§  Go over: Look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze

§  Go over: Create a response or impression

§  Go over to: Go on a journey

§  Go over to: Change to something different

§  Go so far as: Reach an unexpected extent in doing something

§  Go past: Pass without stopping

§  Go round: Be or have enough of something

§  Go round: Circulate

§  Go round: Visit

§  Go through: Travel from one end of something to the other

§  Go through: Examine or scrutinize (a number or series of things), especially in a regular order

§  Go through: Undergo, suffer, experience

§  Go through: Wear out (clothing etc. )

§  Go through: Progress to the next stage of something

§  Go through: Reach an intended destination after passing through some process

§  Go through with: Carry out (something planned or promised)

§  Go to: Attend an event or a sight

§  Go to: Attend classes at a school as a student

§  Go to: Tend to support

§  Go together: Harmonize or be compatible

§  Go towards: Be a contribution to

§  Go under: Descend into a body of water; to founder

§  Go under: Collapse or fail, e.g. by going bankrupt

§  Go under: Be named; to call oneself

§  Go up: Be built or erected

§  Go up: Rise or increase in price, cost, or value

§  Go up: Be consumed by fire

§  Go up: Forget lines or blocks during public performance

§  Go up for:Of the fielding side, to appeal for the batsman or batswoman to be out

§  Go with: Choose or accept (a suggestion)

§  Go with: Correspond or fit well with, to match

§  Go without: Be deprived of

 

Hang

 

§  Hang about: Stay, linger or loiter

§  Hang about: Spend time or be friends

§  Hang on: Wait a moment (usually imperative)

§  Hang on: Hold, grasp, or grip

§  Hang on: Keep; to store something for someone

§  Hang on: Pay close attention

§  Hang on: Continually believe in something; to have faith in

§  Hang on: Persevere

§  Hang out: Spend time doing nothing in particular

§  Hang out: Be unyielding; to hold out

§  Hang over: Be threatening, to be imminent

§  Hang together: Be self-consistent

§  Hang up: Put up to hang

§  Hang up: Terminate a telephone call

 

 

Hold

 

§  Hold back: Act with reserve; to contain one’s full measure or power

§  Hold back: Contain; stop

§  Hold back: Delay the progress of, especially in school

§  Hold down: Restrain; to check

§  Hold down: Continue, to hold and to manage well

§  Hold in: Restrain oneself

§  Hold off: Delay someone or something temporarily; to keep at bay

§  Hold off: Delay commencing

§  Hold off: Delay commencing an action

§  Hold on: Grasp or grip firmly

§  Hold on: Keep; to store something for someone

§  Hold on: Wait a short time

§  Hold on: Remain loyal

§  Hold out: Wait, or refuse in hopes of getting something better

§  Hold out: Survive, endure

§  Hold out: Withhold something

§  Hold out: Set something aside or save it for later

§  Hold over: Save, delay

§  Hold up: Wait or delay

§  Hold up: Impede; detain

§  Hold up: Support or lift

§  Hold up: Fulfill / fulfill or complete one’s part of an agreement

§  Hold up: Rob at gunpoint

 

Jump

 

§  Jump around: Move erratically by jumping

§  Jump at: Accept something enthusiastically

§  Jump down: Leave an elevated position to a lower position by one jump

§  Jump in: Enter something quickly. Usually a mode of transport

§  Jump off: Move from an elevated place by one jump

§  Jump on: Board a vehicle

§  Jump on: Attack verbally, to criticise excessively

§  Jump out: Be obviously different or special; to capture an observer’s attention at once

§  Jump up: Move from one position to a higher position by one jump

 

Keep

 

§  Keep across: Keep abreast of or up to date with; to keep people informed of

§  Keep around: Keep something near one

§  Keep at: Continue with something difficult

§  Keep away: Refrain from coming (near)

§  Keep away: Prevent from coming (near)

§  Keep away from: Avoid or evade

§  Keep away from: Deny (someone) access to

§  Keep back: Maintain a safe distance

§  Keep down: Repress

§  Keep down: Restrain or control (a sound)

§  Keep down: Cause not to increase or rise

§  Keep down: Not to vomit

§  Keep down: Stay concealed by not standing up

§  Keep from: Control yourself, refrain

§  Keep in: Not allow someone out

§  Keep off: Not talk about

§  Keep off: Not touch something

§  Keep on: Persist or continue

§  Keep on: Persist in talking about a subject to the annoyance of the listener

§  Keep on: Cause or allow to remain in an existing position

§  Keep out: Refrain from entering a place or condition

§  Keep out: Restrain someone or something from entering a place or condition

§  Keep out of: Stay away from (a place or condition)

§  Keep out of: Restrain someone or something from entering (a place or condition)

§  Keep to oneself: Purposely avoid interaction with others; to be introverted

§  Keep up: Stay even or ahead

§  Keep up: Ensure that one remains well-informed about something

§  Keep up with: Move at the same rate

 

Kick

 

§  Kick around: Abuse or mistreat; to bully

§  Kick around: Wander loose; to float around; to hang around

§  Kick back: Relax

§  Kick down: Break or demolish something by physical bodily force

§  Kick in: Start, connect, or take effect, especially in a sudden way

§  Kick in: Contribute, especially to a collection of money

§  Kick off: Make the first kick in a game or part of a game

§  Kick off: Start; to launch

§  Kick off: Dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position

§  Kick off: Die or quit permanently

§  Kick off: Shut down or turn off suddenly

§  Kick off: Suddenly become more active

§  Kick off: Be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight

§  Kick off: Have a fight or argument start

§  Kick out: Eject, throw out, or forcefully remove

§  Kick out: Stop, stall, or disconnect suddenly

§  Kick up: Raise, to increase (a price)

§  Kick up: Show anger (about something)

§  Kick up: Function improperly, to show signs of disorder, (of an illness) to flare up

 

Knock

 

§  Knock about: Spend time companionably; to hang around

§  Knock about: Engage in a relaxing activity in; to hang around in

§  Knock about: Be located in or mislaid in

§  Knock about: Hit or behave violently towards

§  Knock back: Stun; to surprise

§  Knock back: Reject; to refuse

§  Knock down: Hit or knock (something), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls

§  Knock down: Demolish

§  Knock down: At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel

§  Knock down: Reduce the price of

§  Knock down: Drink fast

§  Knock down: Disassemble for shipment

§  Knock it off: Stop doing something; desist

§  Knock off: Bump or hit so that something falls off

§  Knock off: Quit; stop doing work or other activity

§  Knock off: Kill someone

§  Knock off: Reduce or remove

§  Knock off: Rob

§  Knock off: Make a copy of, as of a design

§  Knock out: Strike or bump (someone or something) out

§  Knock out: Render unconscious, as by a blow to the head

§  Knock out: Put to sleep

§  Knock out: Exhaust

§  Knock out: Complete, especially in haste; knock off

§  Knock out: Cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it

§  Knock out: Communicate (a message) by knocking

§  Knock over: Bump or strike something in such a way as to tip it

§  Knock over: Rob; to stage a heist of

§  Knock together: Assemble something quickly; to knock up

§  Knock up: Put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily

§  Knock up: Impregnate, especially out of wedlock

 

Lay

 

§  Lay by: Put away for future use; put aside; store; save; hoard; to build up as savings

§  Lay down: Give up, surrender, or yield (e.g. a weapon)

§  Lay down: Intentionally take a fall while riding a motorcycle, in order to prevent a more serious collision

§  Lay down: Specify, institute, enact, assert firmly, state authoritatively, establish or formulate

§  Lay down: Lie down; to place oneself in a reclined or horizontal position, on a bed or similar, for the purpose of resting

§  Lay low: Topple or overcome; to cause to fall; (of a person) to knock out

§  Lay off: Cease, quit, stop (doing something)

§  Lay off: Stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone

§  Lay on: Provide (food or drinks) for free

§  Lay on: Repeatedly say (particular things)

§  Lay out: Arrange in a certain way, so as to spread or space apart

§  Lay up: Make a layup with (a basketball)

 

Live

 

§  Live down: Get used to something shameful

§  Live off: Survive by consuming only a certain thing or things

§  Live on: Survive solely by consuming a certain thing

§  Live on: Endure

§  Live out: Not reside on the premises of one’s employer

§  Live out: Live some distance away or outside of a town/city

§  Live out: Fulfill or act out a dream or fantasy or aspiration

§  Live out: Pass time or to pass the remainder of one’s life

§  Live through: Survive a difficult period or event

§  Live up: Fulfill the expectations placed upon

 

Let

 

§  Let down: Allow to descend

§  Let down: Disappoint; to betray or fail somebody

§  Let in: Let someone or something come in

§  Let in on: Disclose information to someone; to tell somebody a secret or share privileged information

§  Let off: Cause to explode or come out; to release

§  Let off: Forgive and not punish

§  Let on: Reveal, disclose, or divulge

§  Let out: Release

§  Let out: Allow to operate at higher speed by adjusting controls

§  Let out: Enlarge by adjusting one or more seams

§  Let out: Of sound, to emit

§  Let out: Disclose

§  Let past: Allow someone to pass one

§  Let up: Cease; stop

 

Look

§  Look after: Watch or protect; to keep safe

§  Look ahead: Consider the future, to anticipate future events

§  Look back: Think about something that happened in the past

§  Look down on: Regard someone with a feeling of superiority

§  Look around: Inspect a building or area

§  Look around: Search a place

§  Look around: Turn one’s head to see what is behind oneself

§  Look at: Consider

§  Look for: Search for; to seek

§  Look forward to: Feel pleased and excited about something that is going to happen

§  Look in (on sby): Visit a person or place for a short time

§  Look into: Investigate, explore, or consider

§  Look on: Watch; to observe

§  Look on as: Treat someone in a particular role; to consider someone in a particular way

§  Look out: Look from within to the outside

§  Look out: Be vigilant and aware

§  Look out for: Take care of someone, make sure someone is cared for

§  Look out for: Keep alert and try to see

§  Look round: Inspect a building or area

§  Look round: Search a place

§  Look round: Turn one’s head to see what is behind oneself

§  Look through: Gaze through a gap or aperture

§  Look through: Search, either with the eyes or by hand

§  Look through: Pretend not to see something or someone who is clearly visible

§  Look to: Seek inspiration or advice or reward from someone

§  Look up: Have better prospects, to improve

§  Look up: Obtain information about something from a text source

§  Look up to: Show respect or admiration for

§  Look upon: Consider or regard something in a specific manner

§  Look upon: Gaze at something; to look on

§  Look upon as: Consider, regard

 

Make

 

§  Make after: Chase

§  Make away with: Steal

§  Make for: To move towards something

§  Make for: To contribute, to cause, lead to

§  Make into: Cause (the first object) to become (the second object); to change or transform

§  Make it up to: Pay back; to return someone a previous good deed

§  Make of: Form an opinion about (someone or something)

§  Make off: Leave somewhere in a hurry

§  Make off: To escape

§  Make off with: Steal

§  Make out: Draw up (a document etc.), to designate (a cheque) to a given recipient, payee

§  Make out: Manage, get along; to do (well, badly etc.)

§  Make out: Represent; to make (something) appear to be true

§  Make out: Kiss passionately

§  Make out of: Construct from; to create (something) using (a material or substance)

§  Make over: Renovate or to convert to a different use, particularly houses, offices, or rooms within them

§  Make over: Create a new physical look, especially with a new hairstyle, cosmetics, or clothes

§  Make over: Improve upon and/or take in a new direction

§  Make towards: Head in the direction

§  Make up: Compensate, fill in or catch up

§  Make up: Invent, imagine, or concoct (a story, claim, etc.)

§  Make up: Assemble, or mix

§  Make up: Apply cosmetics or makeup to

§  Make up: Resolve, forgive or smooth over an argument or fight

§  Make up for: To compensate for something, to replace

§  Make up to: Do something to show that you are sorry about the problems you have caused someone

§  Make way: Make progress

 

Mess

 

§  Mess about: Misbehave

§  Mess about: Be in a casual non-committal relationship

§  Mess about: Play with; to toy with; to waste the time of (a person)

§  Mess around: Fiddle idly

§  Mess around: Joke, kid, or play

§  Mess around: Have a sexual relationship, especially one which is non-commital

§  Mess up: Make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss

§  Mess up: Cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin

§  Mess up: Botch, bungle; to perform poorly on

§  Mess up: Make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly

§  Mess up: Cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior

§  Mess up: Damage; injure

§  Mess up: Manhandle; beat up; rough up

§  Mess up: Discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray

§  Mess with: Interfere with

§  Mess with: Diss; to put down

§  Mess with: Joke around with or dupe someone, in either a friendly or unfriendly manner

 

Move

 

§  Move forward: Make progress

§  Move on: Leave somewhere for another place

§  Move on: Start dealing with something else

§  Move out: Vacate one’s place of residence or employment

§  Move out: Leave one’s present location

§  Move up: Move one’s position to allow others to occupy a place

 

Pass

 

§  Pass away: Die

§  Pass by: Travel past without stopping

§  Pass by :Travel past (something) without stopping; to ignore, to disregard

§  Pass by: Of a period of time: to come to an end, to elapse

§  Pass down: Transmit information or give property to younger generations.

§  Pass off: Happen

§  Pass off: Misrepresent something

§  Pass on: Convey or communicate

§  Pass on: Skip or decline

§  Pass on: Die

§  Pass out: Faint; to become unconscious

§  Pass out: Distribute, to hand out

§  Pass over: Ignore someone and give a job, reward, etc, to someone more junior.

§  Pass over: Ignore, refuse to discuss.

§  Pass round: Distribute, give to people present.

§  Pass through: Visit a place without stopping or only stopping briefly

§  Pass to: Give ownership or responsibility to someone.

§  Pass up: Refuse (not accept).

 

 

Pick

 

§  Pick apart: Overcome by skilled execution

§  Pick at: Eat unwillingly

§  Pick at: To pull or touch something several times

§  Pick off: Remove by picking

§  Pick off: Shoot one by one

§  Pick off: Dispose of tasks, obstacles, opponents etc. one by one

§  Pick on: Bully, harass or make fun of a victim; to bother or harass

§  Pick on: Select (a person) for a task, etc.

§  Pick out: Distinguish

§  Pick out: Ornament or relieve with lines etc. of a different, usually lighter, colour

§  Pick through: Search something that is disordered for something.

§  Pick up: Lift; to grasp and raise

§  Pick up: Collect an object, especially in passing

§  Pick up: Clean up; to return to an organized state

§  Pick up: Collect a passenger

§  Pick up: Collect and detain (a suspect)

§  Pick up: Improve, increase or speed up

§  Pick up: Restart or resume

§  Pick up: Learn, to grasp; to begin to understand

§  Pick up: Receive (a radio signal or the like)

§  Pick up: Notice, detect or discern, often used with “on”

§  Pick up: Point out (a person’s behaviour, habits or actions) in a critical manner

§  Pick up: Meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation

§  Pick up: Answer a telephone

§  Pick up: Pay for

§  Pick up after: Tidy a mess someone else has made.

§  Pick up on: Correct someone when they say something wrong.

§  Pick up on: Notice something that most people don’t.

§  Pick up on: React to something.

§  Pick up on: Comment on something said earlier in a conversation.

§  Pick yourself up: Recover from a fall or problem

 

Play

 

§  Play along: Take part in a charade, deception, or practical joke

§  Play around: Behave in a silly, or childish, or irresponsible way

§  Play around: Work with in a non-serious manner

§  Play at: Pretend to be a different person while playing a game

§  Play at: Do something in a manner that lacks seriousness, commitment, or professionalism

§  Play down: Make or attempt to make something seem less important, likely, or obvious

§  Play off: Pretend not to be embarrassed, upset, impressed or otherwise affected by something

§  Play out: Play music to accompany the end of, or as a final segment in (a programme, broadcast etc.)

§  Play out: Occur in a certain manner

§  Play up: Misbehave

§  Play up: Make or attempt to make something appear more important, likely or obvious; to showcase or highlight

Pull

 

§  Pull ahead: Start being in a winning position (e.g. in a race or competition)

§  Pull apart: Become separated as a result of pulling

§  Pull apart: Rigorously investigate the basis of an idea or theory

§  Pull away: Move ahead

§  Pull in: Pull something, so that comes inside

§  Pull in: Earn

§  Pull in: Approach a station

§  Pull off: Remove by pulling

§  Pull off: Achieve; to succeed at something difficult

§  Pull off: Turn off a road

§  Pull off: Begin moving and then move away; to pull away

§  Pull on: Put on (clothes) by tugging

§  Pull out: Withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat

§  Pull out: Use coitus interrupt us as a method of birth control

§  Pull out: Remove something from a container

§  Pull out: Maneuver a vehicle from the side of a road onto the lane

§  Pull over: Come to a stop, and turn off the road

§  Pull over: Cause to pull over

§  Pull up: Lift upwards or vertically

§  Pull up: Pull forward

§  Pull up: Retrieve; get

§  Pull up: Drive close towards something, especially a curb

 

Put

 

§  Put (effort) into: To try

§  Put across: Explain or state something clearly and understandably

§  Put aside: Save (money)

§  Put aside: Ignore or intentionally disregard (something), temporarily or permanently

§  Put asunder: Sunder; disjoin; separate; disunite; divorce; annul; dissolve

§  Put away: Place out of the way, clean up

§  Put away: Store, add to one’s stores for later use

§  Put away: Consume (food or drink), especially in large quantities

§  Put away: Send (someone) to prison

§  Put away: Knock out an opponent

§  Put away: Take a large lead in a game, especially enough to guarantee victory

§  Put back: Return something to its original place

§  Put back: Postpone an arranged event or appointment

§  Put back: Drink fast; to knock down alcohol

§  Put back: Change the time in a time zone to an earlier time

§  Put by: Preserve food by canning, freezing, drying, etc.

§  Put by: Perform an action without attracting attention

§  Put by: Save money

§  Put by: Run a ship aground intentionally to avoid a collision

§  Put down: Insult, belittle, or demean

§  Put down: Pay

§  Put down: Halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force

§  Put down: Euthanize (an animal)

§  Put down: Write (something)

§  Put down: Terminate a call; to hang up

§  Put down: Add a name to a list

§  Put down: Make prices, or taxes, lower

§  Put down: Place a baby somewhere to sleep

§  Put down: Land

§  Put down: Drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle

§  Put down: Cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book)

§  Put down as: Assume someone has a particular character from very little information

§  Put down for: Record that someone has offered to help, or contribute something

§  Put down to: State the cause of a situation

§  Put forward: Propose for consideration

§  Put forward: Change the time in a time zone to a later time

§  Put in: Place inside

§  Put in: Apply, request, or submit

§  Put in: Contribute

§  Put in: Call at, arrive at, or enter a place (e.g., to enter a harbor or port)

§  Put in practice: Make (something) a practical reality

§  Put off: Procrastinate

§  Put off: Delay (a task, event, etc.)

§  Put off: Distract; to disturb the concentration of

§  Put off: Cause to dislike; to discourage (from doing)

§  Put on: Don (clothing, equipment or the like)

§  Put on: Fool, kid, deceive

§  Put on: Assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense

§  Put on: Play (a recording)

§  Put on: Initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop

§  Put on: Perform for an audience

§  Put oneself across: Explain one’s ideas and opinions clearly so that another person can understand them and get a picture of your personality

§  Put out: Place outside or eject

§  Put out: Produce

§  Put out: Injure a part of the body, especially a joint

§  Put out: Extinguish (a flame or light)

§  Put over: State, or explain a concept in a clear, understandable manner

§  Put past: Conclude that (someone) would not do something

§  Put through: Connect

§  Put through: Cause to endure

§  Put to: Ask or pose a question, or make a proposal

§  Put together: Assemble, construct, build or formulate

§  Put towards: Make a financial contribution

§  Put up: Place in a high location

§  Put up: Hang or mount

§  Put up: Cajole or dare to do something

§  Put up: Store away

§  Put up: House, shelter, or take in

§  Put up: Present, especially in “put up a fight”

§  Put up: Provide funds in advance

§  Put up: Make available, to offer

§  Put up with: Endure, tolerate, suffer through, or allow, especially something annoying

§  Put forward: To propose or suggest

 

Run

 

§  Run about: Be very busy doing many different things

§  Run across: Cross by running

§  Run across: Find or discover by chance

§  Run after: Chase

§  Run after: Make a determined effort to win someone’s affections

§  Run against: Oppose, make difficulties.

§  Run along: Leave; to make one’s way somewhere else

§  Run around: Be very busy doing many different things

§  Run around after: Spend a lot of time doing things for another person or group of people

§  Run away: Flee by running

§  Run away: Leave home

§  Run away with: Leave secretly with another person

§  Run away with: Steal and get away with it

§  Run away with: Be misled

§  Run away with: Overwhelm, get the better of

§  Run away with: Be superior or outstanding in something

§  Run back: Take someone home by car; to give someone a lift to their house

§  Run back: Rewind a film or cassette

§  Run by: Inform someone briefly of the main points of an idea

§  Run by: Briefly stop at a location for a particular purpose

§  Run down: Hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them

§  Run down: Criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly

§  Run down: Find something or someone after searching for a long time

§  Run down: Lose power slowly

§  Run down: Read quickly a list or other short text

§  Run down: Reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure

§  Run for it: To run very quickly in order to escape from someone or something

§  Run in: Arrest

§  Run in: Use new machinery at less than full speed, preventing damage

§  Run into: Enter by running

§  Run into: Collide with

§  Run into: Encounter or meet unexpectedly

§  Run into: Cause to blend into

§  Run into: Reach a large figure

§  Run low: Near the end of a supply of something; to be nearly running out

§  Run off: Flee or depart quickly

§  Run off: Make photocopies, or print

§  Run off: Write something quickly

§  Run off: Pour or spill off or over

§  Run off: Chase someone away

§  Run off: Operate by a particular energy source

§  Run off with: Leave with someone with the intention of living with them or marrying them

§  Run off with: Steal or abscond

§  Run on: Continue without interruption

§  Run on: Using a certain time zone

§  Run on: Continue talking for a long time

§  Run on: Operate with a particular energy source

§  Run out: Use up; to consume all of something

§  Run out: Expire, to come to an end

§  Run out: Extend a piece of material, or clothing

§  Run out on: Leave a partner or commitment suddenly and without prior warning

§  Run over: Exceed the allotted time

§  Run over: Cross by running

§  Run over: Drive over, causing injury or death

§  Run over: Describe briefly

§  Run over: Rehearse quickly

§  Run over: Overflow

§  Run past: Bring an idea or proposal to the attention of someone in order to obtain their opinion

§  Run through: Summarise briefly

§  Run through: Repeat something

§  Run through: Use completely, in a short space of time

§  Run through: Pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system

§  Run through: Impale a person with a blade, usually a sword

§  Run to: Reach a particular maximum amount, size, value, etc.

§  Run to: Reach the limit of one’s abilities or tastes

§  Run up: Hasten to a destination

§  Run up: Make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly

§  Run up: Bring a flag to the top of its flag pole

§  Run up: Rise; to swell; to grow; to increase

§  Run up: Accumulate a debt

§  Run up: Thrust up, as anything long and slender

§  Run up against: Begin to encounter problems with someone or something

§  Run up on: To confront someone with hostility

§  Run with: Proceed with; accept

 

See

 

§  See in: Welcome

§  See into: Escort into, especially a place of shelter

§  See out: Accompany a guest when he or she leaves

§  See out: Continue something until completion; to watch an activity develop to a conclusion

§  See through: Find something to be visually transparent

§  See through: Not be deceived by something that is false or misleading

§  See through: Provide support or cooperation to (a person) throughout a period of time

§  See through: Do something until it is finished

§  See through: Constitute ample supply for one for

§  See to: Take care of; to effect; to make happen

§  See to: Serve or care for

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Send

 

§  Send away: Dismiss from one’s presence

§  Send away: Send to a particular place for a long time, as a family member, an employee, etc.

§  Send away for: Write to a business or other organisation, requesting a thing

§  Send back: Return (something) to its origin

§  Send back: Remind (someone) of a previous time in the past

§  Send down: Suspend or expel (an undergraduate) from university

§  Send down: Commit (someone) to a prison term

§  Send down: Demote a player within the levels of professional baseball

§  Send off: Send; to dispatch

§  Send out for: Make an order for something to be delivered, especially takeaway food

§  Send up: Imitate someone or something for the purpose of satirical humor

§  Send up: Put in prison

 

Set

 

§  Set about: Initiate or begin some action

§  Set about: Attack

§  Set aside: Separate and reserve something for a specific purpose

§  Set back: Delay or obstruct

§  Set back: Remove from or allow distance

§  Set back: Cost money, as

§  Set down: Write

§  Set forth: Begin a journey or expedition

§  Set in: Take root, become established

§  Set off: Leave; to begin a journey or trip

§  Set off: Begin; to cause; to initiate

§  Set off: Cause to explode, let off

§  Set off: Make angry

§  Set off: Offset, to compensate for: to reduce the effect of, by having a contrary effect

§  Set on: Encourage someone, or an animal, to attack someone

§  Set out: Explain something, or give exact details, usually in writing

§  Set out: Go out, leave

§  Set out: Start an activity with the intention of finishing it

§  Set up: Ready something for use

§  Set up: Logically order

§  Set up: Cause to happen

§  Set up: Trap or ensnare

§  Set up: Arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig

§  Set up: Gel or harden

§  Set up: Provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity

§  Set up: Establish someone in a business or position

§  Set up: Trick someone in order to make them do something

§  Set upon: Attack someone

 

 

 

 

Speak

 

 

§  Speak for: Speak on somebody’s behalf

§  Speak for: Claim, reserve, or occupy

§  Speak for: Represent an intrinsic quality

§  Speak for oneself: Provide an opinion only on one’s own behalf

§  Speak for oneself: Expressing disagreement with an opinion expressed by another

§  Speak for oneself: Have obvious meaning; to require no explanation

§  Speak of: Bespeak; show; indicate; foretell; suggest

§  Speak out: Assert or promote one’s opinion; to make one’s thoughts known

§  Speak to: Resonate with, to feel emotionally relevant to

§  Speak up: Talk more loudly or plainly

§  Speak up: Make oneself or one’s opinions known; to advocate or assert oneself

 

Stand

 

§  Stand aside: Step sideways to make a space for someone else

§  Stand aside: Leave a job or position voluntarily so that someone else can have it instead

§  Stand aside: Temporarily recuse oneself from action or decision-making in some domain

§  Stand back: Maintain a safe distance from a hazard

§  Stand back: Abstain from participation

§  Stand by: Wait in expectation of some event; to make ready

§  Stand by: Remain loyal or faithful to

§  Stand by: Support; to continue to support despite things being bad

§  Stand by: Do nothing. To be inactive in a situation

§  Stand by: Be ready to provide assistance if required

§  Stand by: Wait; to stop pursuing or fighting

§  Stand for: Tolerate

§  Stand in for: To act as a double or substitute for

§  Stand off: Stand some distance apart from something or someone

§  Stand off: Prevent any would-be attacker from coming close by adopting an offensive posture

§  Stand out: Be obvious or conspicuous, in contrast to one’s surroundings

§  Stand out: Be extraordinary and different or to have features and qualities which make someone or something special.

§  Stand up: Rise from a lying or sitting position

§  Stand up: Bring something up and set it into a standing position

§  Stand up: Avoid a prearranged meeting, especially a date, with (a person) without prior notification; to jilt or shirk

§  Stand up for: Speak or act in support or defense

§  Stand up to: Object to or interfere with the actions of (someone seen as bullying, pushy, or controlling)

§  Stand up to: Withstand, to weather, to survive in spite of

 

Take

 

§  Take aback: Surprise or shock; to discomfit

§  Take after: Resemble (a parent or ancestor) in appearance or habit

§  Take against: Stop liking someone; to become unfriendly toward

§  Take apart: Dismantle something into its component pieces

§  Take aside: Get someone alone to talk to them

§  Take away: Remove something and put it in a different place

§  Take away: Remove something, either material or abstract, so that a person no longer has it

§  Take away: Subtract or diminish something

§  Take away: Leave a memory or impression in one’s mind that you think about later

§  Take away: Make someone leave a place and go somewhere else

§  Take away: Prevent, or limit, someone from being somewhere, or from doing something

§  Take away from: Make something seem not so good or interesting

§  Take back: Retract an earlier statement

§  Take back: Cause to remember some past event or time

§  Take back: Resume a relationship

§  Take back: Regain possession of something

§  Take back: Return something to a vendor for a refund

§  Take down: Remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed

§  Take down: Remove something from a hanging position

§  Take down: Write down as a note, especially to record something spoken

§  Take down: Remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding

§  Take down: Lower an item of clothing without removing it

§  Take for: Regard as

§  Take for: Consider mistakenly

§  Take for: Defraud; to rip off

§  Take in: Receive (goods) into one’s home for the purpose of processing for a fee

§  Take in: Shorten (a garment) or make it smaller

§  Take in: Absorb or comprehend

§  Take it away: Begin, especially used to launch a performance of some sort (usually imperative and/or exclamatory)

§  Take it out in: Accept as payment

§  Take it out on: Unleash one’s anger on [a person or thing other than the one that caused it]

§  Take it upon oneself: Assume personal responsibility for a task or action

§  Take off: Remove

§  Take off: Imitate, often in a satirical manner

§  Take off: Leave the ground and begin flight; to ascend into the air

§  Take off: Become successful, to flourish

§  Take off: Depart

§  Take off: Quantify

§  Take off: Absent oneself from work or other responsibility, especially with permission

§  Take on: Acquire, bring in, or introduce

§  Take on: Begin to have or exhibit

§  Take on: Assume responsibility for

§  Take on: Attempt to fight or compete with

§  Take out: Remove

§  Take out: Escort someone on a date

§  Take over: Adopt a further responsibility or duty

§  Take over: Relieve someone temporarily

§  Take over: Buy out the ownership of a business

§  Take over: Annex a territory by conquest or invasion

§  Take over: Become more successful (than someone or something else)

§  Take pity: Show compassion (towards)

§  Take through: Explain something to someone.

§  Take to: Adapt to; to learn, grasp or master

§  Take to: Enter; to go into or move towards

§  Take to: Begin, as a new habit or practice

§  Take up: Pick up

§  Take up: Begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis

§  Take up: Address (an issue)

§  Take up: Occupy; to consume (space or time)

§  Take up: Shorten by hemming

§  Take up: Accept (a proposal, offer, request, etc.) from

§  Take up: Resume

§  Take up with: Form a close relationship with (someone)

§  Take upon oneself: Assume personal responsibility for

 

Throw

 

§  Throw away: Discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash, to dispose of

§  Throw away: Waste, to squander

§  Throw down: Cause something one is holding to drop, often forcefully

§  Throw in: Add something extra free of charge

§  Throw off: Confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer

§  Throw off: Introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew

§  Throw on: Hastily put on (clothes)

§  Throw out: Discard; to dispense with something; to throw away

§  Throw out: Dismiss or expel someone from any longer performing duty or attending somewhere

§  Throw out: Offer an idea for consideration

§  Throw out: Produce in a haphazard fashion

§  Throw up: Vomit

§  Throw up: Produce something new or unexpected

§  Throw up: Cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air

 

                                                                                      Turn           

 

§  Turn against: Rebel or oppose to something formerly supported

§  Turn against: Set against or in opposition to something

§  Turn against: Use to the disadvantage or injury of

§  Turn around: Physically rotate horizontally 360 degrees

§  Turn around: Change to the opposite direction from a previous position

§  Turn around: Reverse the expected outcome of a game, usually from a losing position to a winning one

§  Turn around: Reverse a trend, usually towards a more favorable outcome

§  Turn around: Be duplicitous

§  Turn around: Consider from a different viewpoint

§  Turn around: Produce; to output; to generate

§  Turn around: Effect a positive reversal of a trend

§  Turn around: Make a situation worse by trying to make it better

§  Turn back: Reverse direction and retrace one’s steps

§  Turn back: Return to a previous state of being

§  Turn back: Prevent or refuse to allow passage or progress

§  Turn back: Adjust to a previous setting

§  Turn back: Fold something back; to fold down

§  Turn down: Refuse, decline, or deny

§  Turn down: Reduce the power, etc. of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light

§  Turn down: Reposition by turning, flipping, etc. in a downward direction

§  Turn in: Submit something; to give

§  Turn in: Relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities

§  Turn in: Go to sleep; retire to bed

§  Turn into: Transform into; become

§  Turn off: Power down; to stop a device by switching it off

§  Turn off: Repulse, disgust, or discourage

§  Turn off: Leave a road; to exit

§  Turn on: Depend upon; to pivot around, to have as a central subject

§  Turn on: Power up (a device), to start, to cause to start operating

§  Turn on: Start operating; to power up, to become on

§  Turn on: Violently rebel against; to suddenly attack

§  Turn on: Fill with enthusiasm; to intoxicate, give pleasure to

§  Turn out: Result; end up

§  Turn out: Attend; show up

§  Turn out: Extinguish a light or other device

§  Turn out: Become apparent or known

§  Turn out: Produce; make

§  Turn out: Leave a road

§  Turn out: Remove from a mould, bowl etc.

§  Turn out: Refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict

§  Turn over: Flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom

§  Turn over: Relinquish; give back

§  Turn over: Produce, complete, or cycle through

§  Turn over: Generate (a certain amount of money from sales)

§  Turn over: Give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score)

§  Turn over: Cause extensive disturbance or Disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property

§  Turn round: Revolve or rotate around a centre

§  Turn round: Turn so as to be facing in the opposite direction

§  Turn round: Change one’s opinion or attitude (especially when becoming hostile etc.)

§  Turn round: Put into an opposing position; to reverse

§  Turn round: Make (a ship, airplane etc.) ready for departure

§  Turn round: Process; to complete work on (something), especially with a view to sending it on in a finished state

§  Turn to: Become, to degenerate into

§  Turn to: Consult for advice

§  Turn up: Show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly

§  Turn up: Cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.

§  Turn up: Increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light

§  Turn up: Reposition by rotating, flipping, etc. upwards

§  Turn up: Belay or make fast a line on a cleat or pin

§  Turn upside down: Flip over; to rotate top to bottom

§  Turn upside down: Thoroughly examine

 

Walk

 

 

§  Walk away: Withdraw from a problematic situation

§  Walk away: Survive a challenging or dangerous situation without harm

§  Walk away from: Abandon or leave; to shun

§  Walk in on: Enter suddenly or unexpectedly while something is happening; to intrude or interrupt by entering

§  Walk into: Collide with

§  Walk into: Fall into (a trap), especially one that could have been avoided with more care

§  Walk it off: Recover from (a minor injury) or digest (a large meal) by walking around

§  Walk out: Go out with; to be romantically involved

 

Wash

 

§  Wash away: Eliminate, or destroy by fast moving water, such as in a flood, or a high sea

§  Wash away: Eliminate, in a figurative sense

§  Wash down: Help to swallow by drinking a liquid, after eating something, or taking a pill

§  Wash down: Wash something completely from top to bottom

§  Wash off: Remove (or be removed) by washing

§  Wash out: Remove something by washing

§  Wash out: Wear away by the flow of water; to erode

§  Wash out: Cancel due to bad weather

§  Wash out: Lose traction while going around a turn, especially in cycling, motorsports and skiing/snowboarding

§  Wash over: Pass unnoticed so that one is unaffected by it

§  Wash over: Affect the emotions of (a person) suddenly and overwhelmingly

§  Wash over: Surge over the banks, or other retaining structure

§  Wash up: Clean the utensils, dishes etc. used in preparing and eating a meal

§  Wash up: Wash one’s hands and/or face, often around mealtimes

§  Wash up: Carry an object to land

 

Work

 

§  Work on: Shape, form or improve something

§  Work on: Exercise influence on someone

§  Work out: Calculate

§  Work out: Make sense of

§  Work out: Smooth

§  Work out: Conclude with the correct solution

§  Work out: Succeed

§  Work out: Habitually exercise rigorously, especially by lifting weights, in order to increase strength or muscle mass or maintain fitness

§  Work out: Used other than as an idiom: see work,‎ out

§  Work over: Improve a prototype, or first draft

§  Work over: Physically attack in order to cause injury

§  Work sb out: Understand sb’s behaviour or nature

§  Work smt off: Get rid of unpleasant feelings by doing physical activity

§  Work sth out: Understand sth by thinking about it

§  Work sth out: Solve a problem or issue

§  Work through: Deal with, resolve a problem, often emotional.

§  Work up: Raise; to excite; to stir up

§  Work up: Develop

 

Try

 

§  Try back: Phone back

§  Try for: Make an attempt to get something

§  Try it on: Provoke someone by being annoying or behaving badly

§  Try it on: Attempt to get something, usually by deceit, without great hopes of success

§  Try on: Put clothes on to see if they fit

§  Try out: Test

§  Try out: Test something to see if you like it or want to buy it

§  Try out: for Be tested for a sports team

 

Think

 

§  Think about/of: Consider something before making a decision

§  Think ahead: Plan for a future situation; to think carefully about what might happen in the future

§  Think over: Consider something carefully

§  Think through: Consider all the possibilities and outcomes of a situation

§  Think up: Create or invent something, such as a story or an excuse

 

Spring

 

§  Spring back: Return to original position

§  Spring on: Surprise someone

§  Spring from/ Spring up: Appear suddenly

§  Spring for: Pay for generously

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