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PHRASAL VERB ACTIVATOR
This special section contains 16 different topic areas, in which groups of phrasal verbs that are H
similar in meaning are shown together. For example, around the topic area CLOTHES, you will
find various phrasal verbs meaning to put on clothes, and also various phrasal verbs meaning to
take off clothes. Once you have found the group of phrasal verbs you are interested in, you can R
then check in the main part of the dictionary to find out exactly what each phrasal verb means.
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clothes page 275 love & friendship page 283
computers page 276 on the telephone page 284 s
continue page 277 problems page 285
drinking page 278 sleeping & awake page 286 A
driving page 279 start page 287
eating page 280 stop page 288 L
leave page 281 TV/radio/lights/machines page 289
like/dislike page 282 weather page 290

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to put on
special clothes
for warmth, A
protection etc
c
T

v
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s
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v to put
information
E into a computer
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c
T

v
A

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to continue with your
work A

to continue until L
something
is finished

v
E

to continue to
do something
although it is
difficult
A

c
T

v
when A
something
continues in T
the normal
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s
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v
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to drink a lot
T of alcohol
tanK up!l\mE
- ~et tanked up _
".- be~eVVi~d "uRBre
v .-"Iager up~BrE
;t!iquo"u~ AfTJE
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when you have drunk
R ~ ~oo much alcohol
n;~"b~ hl;ln~ over:
"'-~sleep off .r X
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to leave at the start H

of a journey
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s
A

v
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c
T

v
A
ways of telling
someone to leave T
because they are
annoying you o
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to have a romantic or to start having a
sexual relationship permanent relationship H

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when two people
like each other L
as friends

v
E

c
T

v
A

when a romantic or T
sexual relationship ends
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s
A x
L

when the phone

suddenly
v stops working

c
T

v
A

o
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s
A

v
E

c
T

v
to think about or talk
about a problem A

o
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to start doing some work
, . - ..get down to R
•••get stuck int
•••set about x: A

s
A

v
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c
T

v
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s
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v
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c
T

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to make R
something
start working
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s
A

v
E

to make
something A
stop
working c
T

v
A

o
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