Phrasal Verbs

BE
Be in – be at home
Be out – be away from home (short time)
Be away – be away from home (long time)
Be for – be in favor of something
Be against – be opposed to something
Be up to – do not have necessary qualities
Be off – leave/ start a journey/ something is cancelled
Be back – someone has returned
Be around – be somewhere around
Be out for – trying hard to win or get something

BREAK
Break down – collapse in tears/ have mechanical problems
Break in/ into– enter somewhere by force
Break off – stops talking suddenly
Break out – starts something (a fire/ an epidemic)
Break up – finish school/ ends a relationship

BRING
Bring round – take someone or something to a house/ gain consciousness
Bring up – educate children
Bring down – reduce (prices)
Bring in – introduce
Bring off – succeed against difficulties

CALL
Call at … - a place
Call for… - a reason
Call in – visit informally/ send a person to perform a service
Call on – visit usually with a purpose/ ask someone’s help
Call off – cancel
Call up – telephone
 COME
Come across – find something or someone by chance
Come off – to happen or succeed
Come out – to bloom (flowers)/ be published/ be revealed
Come round – recover consciousness/ visit someone
Come through – succeed
Come up – to be mentioned
Come into – inherit money
Come by – obtain by doubtful means (as for money)
Come in – enter somewhere
Come over someone – take possession or influence of someone

CUT
Cut down – reduce expenses
Cut in – pass a car when not safe/ interrupt something or someone
Cut off – isolate (for example, we were cut off because of the hurricane)
Cut out – eliminated/ omit
To be cut out for – suited for something (a job)

DO
Do away with – abolish
Do up – fasten a button or a zip/ redecorate
Do someone in – kill someone
Do without – manage to do something without x
Be done for – useless or broken
Do with – manage with

GET
Get at – reach
Get about – to circulate
Get away – escape from somewhere or something
Get away with – do something wrong without being punished
Get back – recover possession of something
Get off – leave a main of transport (bus, train, etc)
Get on – enter a main of transport (bus, train, etc)/ mount a horse/ make progress
Get on (well) with – be friends with
Get out – escape from something
Get over – recover from (an illness)
Get something over - deal with something, usually unpleasant
Get round someone – convince someone to do something
Get someone down – depress (rebaixar) someone
Get down – write something down from dictation
Get out of – leave the car
Get to – arrive somewhere
Get rid of – throw away
Get in – enter somewhere
Get into – enter in a car

GIVE
Give something away – give something we do not want or need
Give back – give something back to its owner
Give out – distribute
Give in – resist
Give up – discontinue to do something

GO
Go in for – enter a competition
Go on – continue
Go through – look through/ examinate carefully/ suffer
Go up – rise in prices
Go without – do without
Go down with – become sick

KEEP
Keep up with – not to stay behind
Keep down - … expenses
Keep on – continue
Keep up – maintain an effort to do something
 LOOK
Look after – take care of someone
Look for – Search for something we have lost
Look down on someone – consider someone inferior
Look forward to – wait happily for something
Look into – investigate
Look up – search for information on the internet or dictionary
Look up to -threat someone with respect
Look over – inspect a house
Look out – be careful
Look through – check something written
Look someone up – visit someone

MAKE
Make out – discover the meaning of something
Make for – travel toward (ex. I left school and made for home)
Make up – invent a story / become friends again after arguing
Make up for – compensate for something done
Make do – manage with something (we do not have milk so we will make do with tea)
Make up someone’s mind – decide (for someone)
Make an effort – try
Make a fuss – complain/ show unnecessary excitement
Make it -arrive in time

KEEP
Keep up with – not to stay behind
Keep down - … expenses
Keep on – continue
Keep up – maintain an effort to do something

PUT
Put aside – save money
Put on/off – the light/ TV/ coat
Put down – write down/ make someone feel inferior
Put up with – tolerate
Put up – increase (prices)/ erect a tent
Put someone up – give someone a ‘bed’