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Phrasals Verbs
Phrasals Verbs
Key in to put information into a computer or other electronic machine using a keyboard
Pick up to collect sth from a place / if a machine picks up a sound, movement, or signal, it is able to notice
it or receive it
OM
Print out/off to produce a printed copy of a computer document
Shut down to close the programs and make the computer stop working
Switch/turn off to make a machine stop working by pushing a button, turning a key, etc
Turn up
Turn down
.C
to increase the amount of sound, heat, or light produced by a piece of equipment
Get carried away to be so excited, interested, etc. that you are no longer really in control of what you do or say, or
you forget everything else.
Go off if an alarm goes off, it makes a noise to warn you about something.
Look out used to warn somebody to be careful, especially when there is danger
Come round to visit casually Do up to repair an old building or car, or to improve its
appearance
Come out (of flowers) to blossom
Fall if a building is falling down, it is in very bad
Get to have a harmonious or friendly relationship with sb down/apart condition
on/along
Set to to start doing something that is difficult or needs
Hanging sth to hang clothes outside in order to dry them a lot of time or energy
out
Throw away to get rid of something that you do not want or
Hang sth up to put clothes on a hook, hanger, etc need
Keep off to stay away from sth or somewhere; to avoid sth Flake/peel to come off a surface in small flat pieces
off
Look to visit a place or building, walking around it to see
around what is there. Come don to break and fall to the ground
OM
Put/take sth to take sth outside your house and leave it there Patch up to repair a hole in something by putting a piece
out of something else over it
Put sth out extinguish Put sth up to attach a shelf, cupboard etc to a wall
Put up to let sb stay in your house and give them meals Bring/Knock/ to destroy a building or part of a bulding
Pull down
Put (sth)up to put a picture, notice, etc on a wall so that people
Put sth up to build something such as a wall, fence,
.C
can see it
building etc
Take down to move something that is fixed in a high position to a
lower position Burn/go out to stop working or to make something stop
working because it gets too hot or is used too
much
DD
See out to go to the door with someone to say goodbye to
them when they leave
Work on to try hard to improve or achieve sth
See off to go to an airport, train station, etc to say goodbye to
sb take back to take sth you have bought back to a shop
because it is not suitable or it doesn’t work
Tidy up to make a place look tidy
Cal sbl in to ask a person or organization that provides a
LA
Clean up to make a place completely clean and tidy service to come and deal with something
Turn into to make sb/sth become sth different Send out to produce something, such as light, a signal,
sound, etc.
Turn in to go to bed at night
Put in to install
FI
Turn on
See to deal with sth
to/about
Turn out to happen in a particular way, or to have a particular
result, especially one that you did not expect.
Sort out to successfully deal with a problem or difficult
situation
Put away to store
Sort out Deal with Give off to produce a smell, a sound, light, heat, etc
Come into To inherit money Go over to search or examine sth very carefully
OM
Go out To go to a social event Hold up to rob a person or place by using violence
See/Put aside To save or keep money for a rainy day Let out To make bigger
Cut down/back
on
Give away .C
To reduce the size, amount or number os sth
Look down to
To make smaller
Take sb on To employed sb
Cut out To stop doing or eating sth, especially because it might be unhealthy
Fall on To attack or take hold of sb / sth with a lot of energy and enthusiasm
OM
Go through To look at or examine sth carefully, especially in order to find sth
.C
Put on To start cooking sth
Cut out Too stop doing sth, especially sth that you do regularly
Get over To return to your usual state of health, happiness… after an illness or trauma
Run over To knock sb / sth down and drive over the body
Turn in To go to bed