Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal Verbs
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List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'A'
Showing 11 Verbs, 22 Phrasal Verbs
 
Account (1)
Account for
- To explain
Ache (1)
Ache for
- Want something or someone a lot
Act (3)
Act on
- To take action because of something like information received
Act out
- Perform something with actions and gestures.
- Express an emotion in your behaviour
Act up
- Behave badly or strangely
Add (3)
Add on
- Include in a calculation
Add up
- To make a mathematical total
- Be a satisfactory explanantion for something
Add up to
- Have a certain result
Aim (1)
Aim at
- To target
Allow (1)
Allow for
- Include something in a plan or calculation
Angle (1)
Angle for
- Try to get something indirectly, by hinting or suggesting
Answer (2)
Answer back
- To reply rudely to someone in authority
Answer for
- Be held responsible for a problem
- Speak on behalf of someone or from knowing them
Argue (1)
Argue out
- Argue about a problem to find a solution
Ask (7)
Ask after
- Enquire about someone's health, how life is going
Ask around
- Ask a number of people for information of help
- Invite someone
Ask for
- To provoke a negative reaction
- Request to have or be given
Ask in
- To invite somebody into your house
Ask out
- To invite someone for a date
Ask over
- Invite
Ask round
- Invite someone
Auction (1)
Auction off
- Sell something in an auction
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'B'
Showing 64 Verbs, 179 Phrasal Verbs
 
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Back (7)
Back away
- Retreat or go backwards
Back down
- Retract or withdraw your position or proposal in an argument
Back into
- Enter a parking area in reverse gear
Back off
- Retreat
Back out
- Fail to keep an arrangement or promise
Back out of
- Fail to keep an agreement, arrangement
- Exit a parking area in reverse gear
Back up
- Make a copy of computer data
- Support
- Drive a vehicle backwards
Bag (1)
Bag out
- Criticise
Bail (4)
Bail out
- Save, rescue
- Remove water from something that is flooded
- Jump out of a plane because it is going to crash
Bail out of
- Pay a bond to release someone from jail
Bail out on
- Stop supporting someone when they are in trouble
Bail up
- Talk to someone and delay them
- Rob someone at gunpoint
Ball (1)
Ball up
- Confuse or make things complicated
- Roll or form into a round shape
Balls (1)
Balls up
- Spoil, ruin
Bang (5)
Bang about
- Move in a place making a lot of noise
Bang around
- Move in a place making a lot of noise
Bang on about
- Keep talking about something
Bang out
- Play a musical instrument loudly
Bang up
- Put someone in prison
- Damage badly
Bank (1)
Bank on
- Count or rely on
Barge (2)
Barge in
- Enter a place and interrupt
Barge into
- Enter a place and interrupt people rudely
Bash (4)
Bash about
- Mistreat physically
Bash in
- Break, damage or injure by hitting
Bash out
- Write something quickly without much preparation
Bash up
- Break, damage or hurt by hitting
Bawl (1)
Bawl out
- Scold, shout at someone
- Scold
- Sing or shout unpleasantly loudly
Be (25)
Be after
- Try to find or get
Be along
- Arrive
Be away
- Be elsewhere; on holiday, etc.
Be cut out for
- Be suitable, have the necessary qualities
Be cut up
- Be upset
Be down
- Be depressed
- 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
- Be at home or at work
- Be submitted, arrive
Be in on
- Be involved in
Be not on
- Be unacceptable
Be off
- Be bad (of food)
- Depart, leave
Be on
- Be functioning (of machines)
- Take place
- Take medication or drugs, especially when they affect the person badly
- Be at the top of one’s game, performing very well
Be on about
- Mean, try to say
Be onto
- Pursue, be aware of someone's true nature
Be out
- Be absent from a place
Be out of
- Have no more left
Be out to
- Attempt
Be snowed under
- Have too much work
Be taken aback
- Be shocked or surprised
Be taken with
- Like something
Be up
- Be out of bed
- Have increased or risen
- When the time for something finishes or expires
Be up for
- Be enthusiastic about an upcoming event
Be up to
- Be good enough
- Doing something naughty or wrong
Bear (6)
Bear down on
- Move towards
Bear on
- Influence, affect
Bear out
- Confirm that something is correct
- Confirm that something is correct
Bear up
- Resist pressure
Bear up under
- Cope with something difficult or stressful
Bear with
- Be patient
Beat (3)
Beat down
- Strong sunshine
Beat out
- Narrowly win in competition
Beat up
- Attack violently
Beaver (2)
Beaver away
- Work hard
Beaver away at
- Work hard doing something
Bed (2)
Bed down
- Sleep somewhere less comfortable than normal
- Become established or successful over time
Bed out
- Move a plant outside
Beef (1)
Beef up
- Make something stronger or more solid
Belt (2)
Belt out
- Sing something loudly
Belt up
- Be quiet
- Fasten your seatbelt
Bend (3)
Bend down
- Lower the top half of your body
Bend over
- Lower the top part of your body
Bend over backwards
- Do a lot to try to help or please someone
Black (1)
Black out
- Fall unconscious
- Lose light
Blank (1)
Blank out
- Censor text so that words cannot be read
- Have a temporary memory failure
Blare (1)
Blare out
- A loud sound or music
Blast (1)
Blast off
- Leave the ground- spaceship or rocket
Blaze (1)
Blaze away
- Fire a gun repeatedly
Bliss (1)
Bliss out
- Be extremely relaxed and happy
Block (4)
Block in
- Park a car and obstruct another car
- Shade or fill in
Block off
- Obstruct an exit to prevent people from leaving
Block out
- Stop light from entering or leaving
- Try not think about or feel something because it is upsetting or painful
Block up
- Fill a space so that nothing can pass
Blow (7)
Blow away
- Kill
- Beat rivals or competitors by a large margin
- Impress greatly
- When the wind moves something from a place
Blow down
- When the wind forces something to fall
Blow in
- Arrive, sometimes suddenly or unexpectedly
Blow off
- Not keep an appointment
- Ignore, not do something
Blow out
- Extinguish candles, matches, etc.
- Defeat decisively
Blow over
- When a scandal gets forgotten
Blow up
- Explode
- Inflate
- Enlarge (e.g., photograph).
Blurt (1)
Blurt out
- Say something quickly without thinking, especially if you shouldn't
Bog (4)
Bog down
- Slow make progress
Bog in
- Eat enthusiastically
Bog into
- Eat something enthusiastically
Bog off!
- Get lost
Boil (4)
Boil down
- Simplify, reduce to the essentials
Boil down to
- Amount to
Boil over
- When a hot liquid spills out of a container
- When people lose their tempers and things get nasty
Boil up
- Feel a negative emotion strongly
- Cook or heat something to boiling point
Bone (1)
Bone up on
- Study hard
Book (3)
Book in
- Make a reservation in advance
- Check in at a hotel
Book into
- Make a reservation in advance
- Check in at a hotel
Book up
- Reserve
Boot (1)
Boot up
- Start a computer
Border (1)
Border on
- Be located next to a place
- Be very nearly something
Boss (2)
Boss about
- Use excessive authority to control people
Boss around
- Use excessive authority to control people
Botch (1)
Botch up
- Ruin or spoil something
Bottle (3)
Bottle away
- Store up
Bottle out
- Lack courage to do something
Bottle up
- Not express your feelings
Bottom (1)
Bottom out
- Pass the lowest point and start rising
Bounce (3)
Bounce into
- Force someone
Bounce back
- Recover
Bounce off
- Test ideas
Bowl (1)
Bowl over
- Surprise someone greatly
Box (2)
Box in
- Prevent something from moving, especially vehicles
Box up
- Pack things in boxes to move them
Branch (1)
Branch out
- Move into a different area of business, etc.
Break (8)
Break away
- Leave an organisation, usually to form a new one
Break down
- End negotiations unsuccessfully
- Start crying
- Stop working
Break in
- Go into a building to steal something
- Interrupt something
- Train a horse to be ridden
- Carefully use new products until they are fully functional.
Break off
- Break a piece from something
- End a relationship
Break out in
- Sweat heavily, develop skin sores or irritation.
Break out of
- Escape
Break through
- Pass a barrier or obstacle
Break up
- Break into many pieces
- Close an educational institution for the holidays
- Finish a relationship
- Become inaudible over the telephone because of interference
Breeze (4)
Breeze along
- Move easily and quickly
Breeze in
- Enter a place quickly
Breeze into
- Enter a place quickly
Breeze through
- Pass easily, succeed
Brighten (1)
Brighten up
- Improve (weather)
- Become happier
- Make something more attractive or pleasant
Bring (14)
Bring about
- Make something happen
Bring along
- Bring someone or something to certain place
- Help someone improve
Bring around
- Persuade or convince someone
- Bring something with you when you visit
- Get someone talking about something
Bring back
- Cause someone to remember
- Return
Bring down
- Make a government fall
- Make something cheaper
Bring forth
- Produce something, make it known or visible
- Produce
- Make something happen
- Remove something from where it is kept or hidden
Bring forward
- Make something happen earlier than originally planned
Bring in
- Earn
Bring on
- Cause something to happen or speed up the process
- Make something appear
Bring out
- Release or publish
- Elicit a response
Bring out in
- Cause a health problem or reaction
Bring round
- Make someone wake up from unconsciousness or an anaesthetic
Bring up
- Mention
- Raise a child
Bring Up
- Be officially charged with a crime
Brush (2)
Brush off
- Ignore, pay little attention
Brush up
- Improve a skill quickly
Bubble (1)
Bubble over
- Become very excited
Buck (1)
Buck up
- Hurry (either transitive or reflexive)
- Smarten up, improve
Bucket (1)
Bucket down
- Rain heavily
Budge (1)
Budge up
- Move to make space for someone
Buff (2)
Buff up
- Clear, clean or make something shine
- Improve
Buff up on
- Improve your knowledge quickly
Bug (2)
Bug off!
- Go away
Bug out
- Open your eyes wide in surprise
- Leave somewhere in a hurry
Build (1)
Build up
- Develop a company
- Increase
Bulk (1)
Bulk out
- Make something bigger or thicker
Bump (3)
Bump into
- Meet by chance
Bump off
- Kill
Bump up
- Increase
Bundle (3)
Bundle off
- Send someone somewhere
Bundle out
- Expel
Bundle up
- Put on warm clothing
- Wrap or tie things together
Bunk (1)
Bunk off
- Not go to school when you should
Buoy (1)
Buoy up
- Make someone feel more positive
Burn (4)
Burn down
- Burn completely
Burn off
- Remove by burning or similar process
Burn out
- Lose enthusiasm and energy to continue in a demanding job
Burn up
- Destroy completely by fire
- Drive at high speed
- To be or cause to be highly annoyed
Burst (1)
Burst into
- Catch fire very quickly
- Laugh, cry or clap loudly
Butt (2)
Butt in
- Interrupt
Butt out
- Not be involved in other people's business
Butter (1)
Butter up
- Praise or flatter someone excessively
Buy (5)
Buy in
- Force a CD or record into the charts by buying lots of copies
Buy into
- Accept an idea
Buy off
- Pay someone to stop them causing trouble
Buy out
- Buy somebody's share in a company
Buy up
- Buy all of something
Buzz (3)
Buzz around
- Move quickly around a place
Buzz off
- Leave somewhere
Buzz off!
- Go away (imperative)
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'C'
Showing 64 Verbs, 180 Phrasal Verbs
 
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Call (10)
Call after
- Name someone after somebody else
Call around
- Visit
Call back
- Return a phonecall
Call for
- Demand
- Go to collect something
- Telephone for something
- Go and collect someone to take them out
- Require
Call forth
- Make something happen
Call in
- Get someone to come and do a job
- Stop and visit
Call off
- Cancel
- Order someone to stop attacking
Call on
- Ask for help
- Visit
- Challenge
- Ask someone to do something, especially to speak in public. (Formal)
Call round
- Visit
Call up
- Summon someone for military service
- Telephone
Calm (1)
Calm down
- Stop being angry or emotionally excited
Cancel (1)
Cancel out
- Have an opposite effect on something that has happened, taking things back to the beginning
Care (1)
Care for
- Like
Carried (1)
Carried away
- Get so emotional that you lose control
Carry (7)
Carry forward
- Include a figure in a later calculation
- Make something progress
Carry off
- Win, succeed
- Die of a disease
Carry on
- Continue
- Behave badly
Carry on with
- Have an affair
Carry out
- Perform a task
- Food bought from a restaurant to take away
Carry over
- Continue past a certain point
Carry through
- Complete successfully
Cart (1)
Cart off
- Take someone away, usually under arrest or to prison
- Take something away, especially if stealing or without permission
Cash (4)
Cash in
- Convert shares, bonds, casino chips, etc, into money
Cash in on
- Benefit or make money on something, especially if done unfairly
Cash out
- Illegally access a bank account or credit card and steal money
Cash up
- Count all the money taken in a shop or business at the end of the day
Catch (6)
Catch at
- Take or grab hold of something
Catch on
- Become popular
- Finally understand what is going on
Catch out
- Trick
- Discover or prove that someone is lying
- Put someone in an unexpected and difficult situation (often passive)
Catch up
- Get work, etc, up to date.
- Reach someone who was ahead of you
Catch up on
- Do something that should have been done earlier
- Reminisce with an old friend after not seeing them for a while
Catch up with
- Do something that should have been done earlier
- Meet someone after a period of time and find out what they have been doing
- When something negative starts to have an effect
- Punish someone after they have been doing something wrong for a long time
- Learn something new that many people already understand
Cater (2)
Cater for
- To provide what is necessary
Cater to
- To provide what is needed, often seen negatively
Cave (1)
Cave in
- Collapse
- Stop resisting or refusing
Chalk (3)
Chalk out
- To cut a line of cocaine
Chalk up
- To achieve something good
Chalk up to
- Explain the reason for a problem
Chance (1)
Chance upon
- Find something by accident
Change (1)
Change over
- Change a system
Charge (2)
Charge up
- Put electricity into a battery
Charge with
- Accuse somebody of a crime
Chase (3)
Chase down
- Try hard to find or get something
Chase off
- Force a person to leave or go away
Chase up
- Ensure that someone remembers to do something
- Try to get someone to pay a bill, debt, etc
- Try to get more information about the progress of something
Chat (1)
Chat up
- Talk to someone you are sexually interested in to get them interested in you
Cheat (2)
Cheat on
- Be sexually unfaithful
- Deceive or betray, often in a sexual and/or emotional context
Cheat out of
- Get money from someone under false pretences
Check (7)
Check by
- Visit a place to check something
Check in
- Register on arriving at a hotel or at the airport
Check into
- Register on arriving at a hotel or at the airport
Check off
- Mark something on a list as done
Check out
- Pay the bill when leaving a hotel
- Die
- Stop paying attention
Check out of
- Settle up and pay before leaving a hotel
Check over
- Check something very carefully
Cheer (2)
Cheer on
- Encourage
Cheer up
- Be less unhappy
Chew (4)
Chew on
- Thinks about something carefully before deciding
Chew out
- Criticize someone angrily
Chew over
- Think about an issue
Chew up
- Cut into small pieces with your teeth
- Damage something inside a machine
Chicken (1)
Chicken out
- Be too afraid to do something
Chill (1)
Chill out
- Relax
Chime (1)
Chime in
- Contribute to a discussion
Chip (2)
Chip away at
- Gradually reduce something to make it less powerful, effective, etc
Chip in
- Contribute some money
- Contribute to a discussion
Choose (1)
Choose up
- Form groups or teams
- Form groups or teams
Chop (2)
Chop down
- Fell or cut down a tree
Chop up
- Cut into small pieces
Chuck (4)
Chuck away
- Dispose of something you no longer need or want
Chuck in
- Quit something
- Make a comment
Chuck out
- Dispose of something you no longer need or want
Chuck up
- Vomit, be sick
- Quit something
Churn (1)
Churn out
- Produce, usually quickly or in large amounts without much regard to quality
Clag (1)
Clag up
- Make something sticky
Clam (1)
Clam up
- Be quiet, refuse to speak
Clamp (1)
Clamp down on
- Restrict or try to stop something
Claw (1)
Claw back
- Get money back
- Retake possession with difficulty
Clean (2)
Clean out
- Tidy up thoroughly and throw away unwanted things.
- Cause someone to spend all their money
Clean up
- Tidy and clean
Clear (4)
Clear away
- Leave a place
- Remove or tidy
Clear off
- Leave somewhere quickly
Clear out
- Tidy up thoroughly and throw away unwanted stuff.
- Leave somewhere
Clear up
- Cure or recover from an infection
- Tidy up
- Explain
- Improve (weather)
Click (1)
Click through
- Open an advertisement on the Internet
Climb (1)
Climb down
- Accept that you are wrong and change your position
Clog (1)
Clog up
- Block, slow movement right down
Close (8)
Close down
- Close a shop, branch or business permanently
- Stop an opponent being a challenge
Close in
- Surround, envelop
- Approach, get near
Close in on
- Get near someone
Close in upon
- Get near someone
Close off
- Block a place to stop people entering
Close on
- Get nearer
Close out
- Bring something to an end
- Close or stop using
- Ignore, exclude
Close up
- Completely close something
- Join together
- Move closer together
Cloud (1)
Cloud over
- Get very cloudy
Clown (2)
Clown about
- Behave stupidly or waste time
Clown around
- Behave stupidly or waste time
Cock (1)
Cock up
- Ruin or spoil something
Colour (1)
Colour (Color) up
- Blush
Come (32)
Come about
- Happen, occur
Come across
- Find by accident
- Agree to have sex with someone
- The way other people see you
Come apart
- Break into pieces
Come around
- Recover consciousness
Come around to
- Agree with or accept something you had previously disapproved of or disliked.
Come before
- Appear in court charged with a crime or offence
Come by
- Visit
- Acquire
Come down
- Rain
- Travel
Come down on
- Criticise heavily
Come down with
- Fall ill
Come forth
- Appear
Come forth with
- Provide information
Come from
- Country or town where you were born
Come in
- Arrive for flights
- Place or ranking in a competition, etc.
- Receive news
Come in for
- Receive (criticism or praise)
Come into
- Be important or relevant
- Inherit
Come into use
- Start being used
Come off
- When something breaks off
- Be successful
Come off it
- I don't believe what you're saying; used as an imperative
Come on
- Encouragement
- Start an illness
- Start functioning (machines, etc)
Come out
- A secret is revealed
- Be published or otherwise available to the public
- Disappear when washed
- Let people know that you are lesbian or gay
- When the sun appears
Come out in
- Have a rash or similar skin problem
Come out with
- Make something available
- Say something publicly and unexpectedly
Come over
- Feel strange
- Affect mentally in such a way as to change behaviour (possibly related to 'overcome')
Come round
- Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic
- Change your opinion
Come through
- Arrive (messages and information)
- Communicate an emotion
- Produce a result
Come through with
- Provide something needed
Come to
- Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic
- Result in
Come up
- Appear
- Rise (the sun)
Come up against
- Encounter problems or difficulties
Come up with
- Think of a solution, excuse, etc.
Come upon
- Find by chance
Conjure (1)
Conjure up
- Create a picture or memory in someone's mind
- Create something without many resources
Conk (1)
Conk out
- Fall fast asleep
- Suddenly breakdown or stop working
Contract (3)
Contract in
- Become involved or committed to something
Contract out
- Give a contract for a service outside the company you work for
Contract out of
- Formally leave and agreement
Cool (1)
Cool down
- Get cooler
- Become calm
Coop (1)
Coop up
- Confine in a small area
Cop (3)
Cop it
- Get into trouble
Cop off
- Leave work or school early
- Kiss, pet or have sex with someone
Cop out
- Choose an easy alternative
Cotton (1)
Cotton on
- To work out the truth
Could (1)
Could do with
- Need or want something
Count (4)
Count in
- Include or involve
Count on
- Depend, rely
Count out
- Exclude
Count up
- Add
Cozy (2)
Cozy up
- Make yourself comfortable
Cozy up to
- Make yourself popular with someone
Crack (3)
Crack down on
- Use more authority than usual
Crack on
- Continue doing something with energy
Crack up
- Have a nervous breakdown
- Have bad reception on a mobile phone
- Burst out laughing
- Damage a car badly
Crank (2)
Crank out
- Produce a lot of something fast
Crank up
- Inject non-medical drugs
- Start a machine, originally with a handle
- Increase, make something bigger
Crash (1)
Crash out
- Sleep at someone's house because you are too tired, drunk, etc. to leave
- Fall asleep
Cream (1)
Cream off
- Separate the best or most talented people so that they can receive special or different treatment
- Take money or divert funds, usually wrongfully or unfairly
Creep (6)
Creep in
- Start to be noticeable
- Get included despite attempts to keep it or them out
Creep into
- Become noticeable in something
Creep out
- make someone feel worried or uneasy
Creep out on
- To do the same activity for a very long time
Creep over
- Start to have a negative feeling
Creep up on
- Approach without someone realising
Crop (1)
Crop up
- Appear unexpectedly
Cross (2)
Cross off
- Delete, remove from a list
Cross out
- Put as line through some writing to show it is wrong
Crumb (1)
Crumb down
- Clear a table in a restaurant
Cry (2)
Cry off
- To cancel an arrangement
Cry out
- Shout because you are in pain
Cut (11)
Cut across
- Go across a place rather than around it to make the journey quicker
- Affect people of different groups, classes, etc
Cut back
- Reduce
Cut back on
- Reduce expenditure
Cut down
- Consume less
- Shoot
- Reduce a vertical thing to ground level by cutting
- Cut something from a high position
Cut down on
- Reduce
Cut in
- Start functioning
- Drive in front of another vehicle without warning
- Interrupt
- Include someone in a deal that makes money
- Mix fat and flour until the combine
Cut it out
- Stop your unfair or unreasonable behaviour
Cut off
- Disconnect
- Isolate or make inaccessible
Cut out
- Exclude
- When an engine or motor stops
- Cut a picture or similar from a magazine, etc
Cut out on
- Let down, snub
Cut up
- Cut into smaller pieces
- Drive into a neighbouring lane, directly in front of another vehicle
- Upset
- Have a lot of small injuries
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'D'
Showing 31 Verbs, 78 Phrasal Verbs
 
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Dash (1)
Dash off
- Leave somewhere quickly
- Do something quickly, especially writing
Dawn (1)
Dawn on
- Finally realise or understand something
Die (5)
Die away
- Become quieter or inaudible (of a sound)
Die down
- Decrease or become quieter
Die for
- Want something a lot
Die off
- Become extinct
Die out
- Become extinct or disappear
Dig (3)
Dig in
- Start eating greedily
Dig into
- Reach inside to get something
Dig up
- Find something that is supposed to be secret
Dine (2)
Dine out
- Have dinner outside your home
Dine out on
- Tell a story repeatedly that is well received
Dip (3)
Dip in
- Put something in a liquid for a short time
Dip into
- Read parts of a book, but not all
- Take money out of your savings
Dip out
- Leave a place without telling anyone
Disagree (1)
Disagree with
- Make someone feel sick or ill
Dish (2)
Dish out
- Serve food
- Give something, usually when you shouldn't
- Criticise, when you can't take criticism in return
Dish up
- Serve food
Dive (2)
Dive in
- Start doing something, usually without planning
- Start eating
Dive into
- Reach inside something quickly
Divide (1)
Divide up
- Share
Divvy (2)
Divvy out
- Divide, share
Divvy up
- Divide, share
Do (4)
Do away with
- Abolish, get rid of
Do out of
- Cheat somebody out of something that is rightfully theirs
Do up
- Close or fasten clothes, etc.
- Repair and renovate
Do without
- Manage without something
Doss (3)
Doss about
- Spend time doing very little or being unproductive
Doss around
- Spend time doing very little or being unproductive
Doss down
- Sleep somewhere temporarily because you don't go home
Doze (1)
Doze off
- Fall asleep
Drag (1)
Drag on
- Be unnecessarily long
Draw (7)
Draw back
- Retreat, move backwards
Draw down
- Reduce levels
- Get funding
- To deplete by consumption or heavy spending
Draw in
- Get dark earlier
- Arrive at a station (for trains)
Draw into
- Get involved in something unpleasant
Draw on
- Pass slowly (time)
- Inhale smoke from a cigarette, cigar, etc
Draw out
- Make something continue longer than needed
- Make a shy person more outgoing
Draw up
- Prepare a contract
- When a vehicle stops
Dream (2)
Dream of
- Not think or consider
Dream up
- Invent something, have an idea
Dredge (1)
Dredge up
- Discover things about someone's past
Dress (2)
Dress down
- Dress casually
- Scold
Dress up
- Dress very smartly
Drift (2)
Drift apart
- Slowly cease to be close to or friends with someone
Drift off
- Start to fall asleep
Drill (3)
Drill down
- Search through layers of information on a computer
Drill down through
- Get to the bottom of something, get detailed data
Drill into
- Repeat something many times to make someone learn it
Drink (1)
Drink up
- Finish a drink
Drive (6)
Drive away
- Force an animal or someone to leave a place
Drive back
- Repulse, force back
Drive by
- Do something out of a car
Drive off
- Drive away from a place
Drive out
- Force someone to leave a place
Drive up
- Make something increase
Drone (1)
Drone on
- Talk boringly for a long time
Drop (11)
Drop around
- Visit someone, often without making an arrangement
- Deliver
Drop away
- Become smaller- amount, numbers
Drop back
- Move towards the back of a group
Drop by
- Pay a brief visit
Drop in
- Visit without having made arrangements
Drop off
- Take something or someone to a place and leave it or them there.
- Fall asleep
- Decrease in number or amount
Drop out
- Quit a course
Drop over
- Visit for a short time
Drop round
- Visit someone, often without making an arrangement
- Deliver
Drop someone in it
- Get someone into trouble
Drop through
- Come to nothing, produce no results
Drown (2)
Drown in
- Cover excessively
Drown out
- Be so loud that another sound cannot be heard
Drum (3)
Drum into
- To make someone learn or believe something by constant repetition
Drum out
- Force someone out of their job or position
Drum up
- Increase support or interest
Duck (1)
Duck out of
- Avoid doing something
Duff (1)
Duff up
- Beat or hit someone repeatedly
Dumb (1)
Dumb down
- Reduce the intellectual level of something in search of popularity
Dwell (2)
Dwell on
- Spend a lot of time on something
Dwell upon
- Spend a lot of time on something
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'E'
Showing 11 Verbs, 21 Phrasal Verbs
 
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Ease (2)
Ease off
- Reduce pressure
Ease up
- Relax, calm down
Eat (5)
Eat away
- Destroy slowly
Eat in
- Eat at home
Eat into
- Use something valuable when you don't want to
Eat out
- Eat in a restaurant
Eat up
- Eat all of something
- Consume
- Consume something you don't want to be consumed
Ebb (1)
Ebb away
- Disappear gradually
Edge (2)
Edge out
- Gradually push someone or something out of their position
Edge up
- Approach slowly
Egg (1)
Egg on
- Encourage
Eke (1)
Eke out
- Make something like money last as long as possible
Embark (2)
Embark on
- Start a project or venture
Embark upon
- Start a project or venture
Empty (1)
Empty out
- Empty something completely
- Remove some things or everything from a container
End (3)
End in
- Finish a certain way
End up
- Become or do something unplanned
End up with
- Get as a result of something
Enter (2)
Enter for
- Join or enter a competition
Enter into
- Become involved in or accept
Eye (1)
Eye up
- Look carefully at someone
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'F'
Showing 51 Verbs, 115 Phrasal Verbs
 
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Face (2)
Face off
- Confront
Face up to
- Accept an unpleasant truth
Faff (2)
Faff about
- Behave indecisively
Faff around
- Behave indecisively
Fall (14)
Fall about
- Laugh a lot
Fall apart
- Break into pieces
- Become emotionally disturbed and unable to behave normally
Fall back
- Retreat
Fall back on
- Be able to use in an emergency
Fall behind
- Make less progress
Fall down
- Fall on the ground
- Have a weak point
Fall for
- Be attracted to somebody, fall in love
- Believe a lie or a piece of deception
Fall in
- Collapse
Fall into
- Start doing something unplanned
Fall off
- Decrease
Fall out
- Argue and be on bad terms with someone
- Lose hair
Fall over
- Fall on the ground
Fall through
- Be unsuccessful
Fall under
- Become controlled
Farm (1)
Farm out
- Give or contract work to someone else
Fart (2)
Fart about
- Waste time doing silly things
Fart around
- Waste time doing pointless things
Fasten (4)
Fasten down
- Tie something so that it doesn't move
Fasten on
- Give attention to something that confirms your beliefs
Fasten onto
- Follow someone closely, normally when they don't want your company
- Give attention to something that confirms your beliefs
Fasten up
- Close, attach
Fathom (1)
Fathom out
- Understand something
Fatten (1)
Fatten up
- Give an animal a lot to eat to make it fat
Fawn (2)
Fawn on
- Praise someone in an excessive way to get their favour or something from them
Fawn over
- Praise someone in an excessive way to get their favour or something from them
Feed (3)
Feed off
- Eat a food as part of an animals diet
- Use something to your advantage
Feed on
- Grow stronger
- Consume in an animal's diet
- Give someone a particular food
Feed up
- Give someone a lot of food to restore their health, make them bigger, etc
Feel (2)
Feel up
- Touch sexually, grope
Feel up to
- Feel capable of doing something
Fend (2)
Fend for
- Take care of yourself or someone with help from other people
Fend off
- Resist something successfully
- Push an attacker away
Ferret (1)
Ferret out
- Search and discover something
Fess (2)
Fess up
- Confess, admit something reluctantly
- Give
Fess up to
- Confess, admit reluctantly to something
Fiddle (3)
Fiddle about
- Waste time doing silly things, or doing things unsuccessfully
Fiddle around
- Waste time doing silly things, or unsuccessful things
- Make small movements with your hands
Fiddle away
- Waste time
Fight (3)
Fight back
- Defend yourself, resist an attack
- Try to control and emotion and keep it hidden
Fight it out
- Struggle to see who wins, both by arguing or fighting
Fight off
- Fight an attacker and force them back
- Resist an illness or emotion
Figure (2)
Figure on
- Plan, expect
Figure out
- Find the answer to a problem
File (1)
File away
- Put a document in the correct place for storage in a filing system
Fill (5)
Fill in
- Complete a form
- Substitute someone at work
Fill in for
- Substitute
Fill in on
- Give someone information
Fill out
- Complete a form
Fill up
- Fill something completely
Filter (2)
Filter in
- Move into a lane of traffic without making other cars stop
Filter out
- Remove something unwanted
Find (1)
Find out
- Discover
Finish (1)
Finish off
- Finish completely
Fink (2)
Fink on
- Give away secrets about someone
Fink out
- Fail to keep a promise, arrangement, etc
Fire (3)
Fire away
- Ask questions
Fire off
- Send quickly, angrily or many (letter, emails, etc)
- Shoot, fire a gun (usually repeatedly)
Fire up
- Start a computer
- Excite, become excited
Firm (1)
Firm up
- Make things clearer in a negotiation or discussion
Fish (2)
Fish for
- Try to get some information or to get someone to say something
Fish out
- Remove something from a bag, pocket, etc
- Remove from water, such as the sea, rivers, etc
Fit (3)
Fit in
- Get on in a group of people
- Have enough time or space for something
Fit into
- Become part of
Fit up
- Frame someone- make them look guilty of something they haven't done
- Provide equipment
Fix (1)
Fix up
- Make an arrangement
Fizzle (1)
Fizzle out
- End in an unsuccessful way
Flag (2)
Flag down
- Signal at a vehicle to get it to stop
Flag up
- Raise an issue, or highlight its importance
Flake (1)
Flake out
- Fall asleep from exhaustion
Flame (2)
Flame out
- Fail
Flame up
- Burn brightly
Flare (2)
Flare out
- Get angry suddenly
Flare up
- When trouble suddenly appears
Flesh (1)
Flesh out
- Add more details or information
Flick (2)
Flick over
- Change TV channels quickly
Flick through
- Change TV channels repeatedly
- Look through something quickly
Flip (3)
Flip off
- Extend your middle finger as a gesture of contempt
Flip out
- Become very excited and lose control
Flip through
- Look quickly through a magazine, book, etc
Flog (1)
Flog off
- Sell something cheaply to get rid of it
Floor (1)
Floor it
- Drive a vehicle as fast as possible
Flounce (2)
Flounce off
- Leave a place or walk away from someone angrily
Flounce out
- Leave a place angrily
Fly (5)
Fly about
- Circulate (rumours, etc)
Fly around
- Circulate (rumours, etc)
Fly at
- Attack
- Criticise or shout angrily
Fly by
- When time appears to move quickly
Fly into
- Change emotion quickly
Fob (4)
Fob off
- Make or persuade someone to accept something
- Lie or deceive someone
Fob off on
- Make or persuade someone to accept something you don't want
Fob off onto
- Make or persuade someone to accept something you don't want
Fob off with
- Make or persuade someone to accept something of lower quality than they wanted
- Make or persuade someone to accept something of lower quality than they wanted
Focus (1)
Focus on
- Concentrate
Fold (1)
Fold up
- Make a sheet of paper smaller
Follow (4)
Follow on
- Leave to meet someone after they have left the place you're at
Follow on from
- Be the part of something
Follow through
- Do what is necessary to complete something or make it successful
Follow up
- Do something to check or improve an earlier action
- Find our about a problem and act
Fool (1)
Fool around
- Not be serious
- Be unfaithful
Forge (1)
Forge ahead
- Make a lot of progress in a short time
- Move forwards very quickly
Freak (1)
Freak out
- Become very disturbed or angry
Freeze (3)
Freeze out
- Shut out or exclude by unfriendly treatment
- Force to retire or withdraw from membership, a job, etc
Freeze over
- Become covered with ice (lake, river, pond, etc)
Freeze up
- Be blocked with ice
- Stop working because the parts of a machine won't move
- When a computer stops working
- Be paralysed with fear
Freshen (1)
Freshen up
- Wash quickly and improve appearance
- Add more alcohol to a glass before it is empty
- Quickly improve the appearance of something
Front (5)
Front for
- Represent someone, especially when covering illegal or wrongful activities
Front off
- Confront someone and let them know you are prepared to fight
Front onto
- Face (of a building)
Front out
- Face up to someone, withstand criticism
Front up
- Appear somewhere for a short time
- Advance cash for something
Frown (1)
Frown on
- Disapprove
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'G'
Showing 16 Verbs, 177 Phrasal Verbs
 
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Gad (2)
Gad about
- Visit a lot of different places for pleasure
Gad around
- Visit different places for pleasure
Gag (1)
Gag for
- Want something a lot
Gang (2)
Gang up
- Form a group against something or someone
Gang up on
- Harass, bully
Gear (1)
Gear up
- Get ready for a busy period
Geek (1)
Geek out
- Talk at length about computing
Get (66)
Get about
- Visit many places
- Become known
- Walk or visit places
- Have personal or sexual relationships with many people
Get above
- Behave as if you are better or more important than others
Get across
- Communicate successfully
- Go from one side to the other
- Move something from one side to the other
Get across to
- Be convincing or make a good impression
Get after
- Nag or exhort someone
- Chase
Get ahead
- Progress
Get ahead of
- Move in front of
Get along
- Have a good relationship
- Leave
- Progess
Get along in
- Progress
Get along with
- Have a good relationship with someone
- Deal with, handle
Get around
- Become known
- Visit many different places
- Walk or go to places
- Avoid a problem
- Persuade, convince
- Have personal or sexual relationships with many people
Get around to
- Finally manage to do something, make the effort to do something
Get at
- Criticise
- Mean
- Be able to reach, find, access
- Use threats, payments, bribes, etc, to affect someone's testimony or decision
Get away
- Escape
- Go on holiday or for a short break
- Move, leave somewhere
Get away from
- Go somewhere different or do something different
- Start to talk about something that is not relevant to the discussion
Get away with
- Not get caught, criticised or punished for doing something wrong
- Achieve something, despite not doing it correctly or properly
Get away!
- An expression of disbelief
Get back
- Return
- Return something
- Revenge
- Move away
- Move away
Get back at
- Take revenge
Get back into
- Start doing something after stopping for some time
- Find a new enthusiasm for something
Get back to
- Respond to a contact
- Respond when you know the answer
- Start doing something again after an interruption
Get back together
- Restart a relationship
Get behind
- Support
Get behind with
- Be late paying instalments for something.
Get by
- Have just enough money to live on
- Not be noticed (problems, errors, etc)
Get by on
- Manage on a certain amount of money
Get by with
- Have enough of something to do the job
Get down
- Make someone depressed, unhappy, exhausted, etc.
- Write, record
- Manage to swallow
- Descend, leave a vehicle
- Leave the table after eating
- Reduce
- Have an affair or sexual relations
Get down on
- Criticise
Get down to
- Start working seriously
- Enjoy something a lot
Get in
- Arrange for someone to do a job in your home, workplace, etc
- Arrive (train, plane, etc.)
- Arrive home
- Enter a car or taxi
- Buy or obtain supplies, like food
- Arrive at work, school, home
- Enter a building or place
- Be elected
- Manage to say or do
- Be admitted to a university, club, etc
- Bring inside a place
- Submit, apply
- Pay for drinks
Get in on
- Become involved
Get in with
- Become friendly with, ingratiate with
Get into
- Become involved or interested
- Become involved in something bad or criminal
- Be accepted or admitted
- Become or be accepted as a member
- Start a habit or way of acting or behaving
- Be small enough to wear something
- Criticise
Get it
- Be punished or scolded
Get it off
- Have sex
Get it off with
- Have sex with
Get it on
- Become interested or excited
- Have sex
Get it on with
- Have sex with
Get it together
- Control things in your life to achieve your aims
- Begin a relationship
Get it up
- Become aroused (of a man)
Get off
- Escape punishment
- Leave a bus, train, etc.
- Finish, leave work
- Start a journey
- Help a baby or child sleep
- Orgasm, have sex
- Manage to fire a gun
- Stop talking on the phone
- Write or send letters, messages, etc
- Say or write something funny
Get off it
- A way of expressing disbelief
Get off on
- Enjoy a drug
- Become excited by
Get off with
- Have casual sex with
Get off!
- Don't touch, leave alone
Get on
- Continue doing something
- Enter a bus, train, plane, etc.
- Make progress, deal with something with a reasonable degree of success
- Have a good relationship
- Become old, age
- Be late or near an arranged time
- Wear, fit
- Leave
Get on at
- Criticise unfairly
Get on for
- Be near a time
Get on to
- Start to suspect
Get on with
- Have a good relationship
- Continue or start doing something
Get onto
- Start discussing a topic
- Be elected, appointed
- Appear on the radio or TV
- Contact someone because you need or want them to do something
- Enter a plane, train, etc
Get out
- Leave the house to visit place and socialise
- Become known when people want it to remain secret
- Leave a place, escape
- Remove something from where it is stored to use it
- Remove dirt or something unwanted
- Publish, make available for the public to see or buy
- Say what you want when it is difficult
Get out of
- Avoid doing something you dislike
- Leave a car, van, etc.
- Stop a regular activity or habit
- Make someone confess or tell the truth
- Make someone give something to you
- Derive pleasure or benefit from something
- Help someone avoid doing something
Get out!
- Expression of disbelief
Get over
- Recover from something, feel better
- Solve, find a solution
- Communicate, make people understand
- Be shocked or surprised that something if real or true
- Get to the other side
- Come somewhere
Get over with
- Do something unpleasant that has to be done rather than delaying it any more
Get round
- Become known
- Find a solution
Get round (around) to
- Finally manage to do something
Get round (or around)
- Persuade someone
Get through
- Contact
- Consume
- Finish
- Finish
- Succeed in an exam or test
- Help someone or something succeed or pass a test or exam
- Endure or deal with a difficult experience
- Be accepted or passed (laws, proposals, etc)
- Manage to pass
- Arrive
Get through to
- Make someone understand
- Contact, especially by phone
- Reach a stage in a competition
Get to
- Annoy, irritate
- Arrive
- Start discussing a topic
Get together
- Meet socially
Get up
- Get out of bed
- Organise
Get up to
- Do something wrong or naughty
Give (21)
Give away
- Entrust your daughter to her husband through the marriage ceremony
- Tell a secret, often unintentionally
- Distribute something for free
- Give without asking for or expecting payment
- Give an advantage to your opponent in a sport by making a mistake, playing badly, etc
- Give an unwanted baby to people to bring up
- Betray, report to authorities
- Give a weight advantage to an opponent in boxing
Give back
- Return something you've borrowed
- Return something that someone has lost
Give in
- Stop doing something because it's too hard or requires too much energy
- Submit homework, etc.
- Surrender, accept defeat
- Offer or submit for judgement, approval
Give in to
- Agree to something you don't like
- Allow a feeling or desire to control you
Give it to
- Criticise harshly or punish someone for something
Give it up for
- Applaud
Give it up to
- Applaud
Give of
- Contribute without expecting anything in return, usually time or money
Give off
- Emit pollution or something else unpleasant
- Behave in a way that makes people think of you in a certain way
- Expand
- Follow or take one of 2 or more branches (instructions, in machine code) in writing a computer program (using system software for a programming language)
Give onto
- Open into a place, for a door or window
Give out
- Distribute
- Stop working, through age or overuse
- Have no more of a supply
- Make public
- Emit
- End or finish somewhere
- Make a sound or noise
- Read the wordings of a hymn or psalm aloud for congregational singing
Give over
- Stop doing something bad or annoying
- Entrust, pass on responsibility
- Stop an activity
Give over to
- Dedicate, devote
- Transfer responsibility
Give over!
- An expression of disbelief
Give up
- Stop doing something that has been a habit
- Stop being friendly, end relationships
- Stop doing something
- Surrender, stop trying
- Sacrifice or dedicate time, etc, to something
- Allow someone to sit in your chair, take your place, etc
- Allow or give away a run while pitching (baseball)
Give up on
- Lose faith in or stop believing in something or someone
- Stop feeling hope
Give up to
- Denounce, report to authorities
Give way
- Stop to allow vehicles to pass
- Collapse, break
Give way to
- Yield, surrender, retreat
- Relinquish position or ascendancy
- Be replaced by something better, cheaper, more modern, etc
- Allow a vehicle to pass in front
- Surrender to strong emotions
Give yourself up
- Surrender to the police or authorities
Give yourself up to
- Dedicate time, energy, etc, to something
Gloss (1)
Gloss over
- Try to minimise the importance of something
Gnaw (2)
Gnaw at
- Trouble, worry or annoy someone
- Harm gradually
Gnaw away at
- Harm gradually
Go (54)
Go about
- Deal with something
- Circulate
Go across
- Move to another side or place
Go after
- Chase, try to get
Go against
- Lose a decision or a verdict of a court
Go ahead
- Proceed
Go ahead with
- Proceed
Go along with
- Accept a decision or suggestion
Go around
- Circulate
- Be or have enough of something
- Visit
Go at
- Attack or approach something with vigour
Go away
- Leave a place or disappear
Go back
- Have a long history
- Return to, start doing something again
Go back on
- Break a promise
Go before
- Precede
Go below
- Leave the top deck of a ship
Go by
- The passing of time
- Trust or depend on for correct information
- Pay a short visit, call
Go down
- Decrease, get smaller
- Sink
- Sunset
- Be sent to to prison
- Become recorded as or known as
- Be eaten or swallowed
- Fall to the ground
- Happen, take place
- Stop working, especially computers
- Become dimmer
- Be received by people, in terms of their reaction
Go down on
- Perform oral sex
Go down to
- Be defeated
Go down with
- Fall ill
- Find acceptance
Go for
- Attack
- Be attracted to
- Choose, select
- Try to get
- Have something favourable
- Pass for or serve as
Go for it
- Be assertive and ready to initiate action. (Related to the meaning 'attack')
Go forth
- Leave a place
- Travel abroad, leave a place
Go forward
- Move clocks ahead
- Progress
Go in
- Go to hospital for treatment, surgery, etc.
- Fit
- Disappear, become obscured by a cloud
- Attack
Go in for
- Enter a competition or sit an exam
- Support, advocate
- Like, have an interest in
- Make a career choice
Go in with
- Form a union or alliance
- Join, enter
Go into
- Discuss in some detail
- Enter a profession, hospital, trade, market
- Begin a speech or description
- Be dedicated or devoted
- Be contained in a larger number
Go it
- Behave in a reckless way
- Move or drive very fast
Go it alone
- Do something without help
Go off
- Explode (bomb), start ringing (alarm)
- Go bad
- Start to dislike
- Leave a place
- Take place, follow a plan or pattern
- Stop working (electric/electronic equipment)
Go off with
- Elope, run away with someone
- Steal
Go on
- Continue
- Happen
- Start doing or taking something
- Be guided
- Be nearly a certain period of time
- Progress
- Spend money
- Start working (electric/electronic equipment)
Go on about
- Talk too much
Go on at
- Pester, try to make someone do something by repeatedly asking or suggesting
Go on to
- Proceed
Go on with
- Continue doing
Go one
- A way of encouraging someone
Go out
- Stop burning, be extinguished
- Leave a place
- Go on strike
- Become infashionable
- Move backwards, of a tide
- Be eliminated in a competition
- Be transmitted
- Be sent
- Intend
Go out for
- Become a candidate, apply for something
Go out to
- Feel sympathy with someone
Go out with
- Have a relationship with
Go over
- Look at something, revise
- Visit
- Be approved or accepted
- Repeat or explain
- Clean
Go over to
- Go on a journey
- Become converted
- Change to something different
Go past
- Pass without stopping
Go round
- Be or have enough of something
- Circulate
- Visit
Go through
- Experience
- Read again
- Examine, search
- Do something in a certain way or following certain procedures
- Explain
- Be approved formally or sanctioned
- Enter
- Consume or spend
- Perform or carry something out
Go through with
- Do or complete something you've agreed to
Go together
- Harmonize or be compatible
Go towards
- Contibute
Go under
- Go bankrupt
- Lose consciousness
- Sink
Go up
- Rise or climb
- Approach
- Be built
- Be heard
- Be promoted
Go up to
- Approach
- Attend a university
- Reach
Go with
- Combine nicely
- Accompany
- Accept, agree to
- Date, have a relationship with
Go without
- Not have
- Cope without having something
Goof (3)
Goof around
- Fool around, not be serious
Goof off
- Avoid or leave work
Goof up
- Mess, spoil
Grass (2)
Grass on
- Report someone to a person in authority
Grass up
- Report someone to a person in authority
Grey (1)
Grey out
- Disable a function in a computer program, leaving it visible but not working
Grind (6)
Grind away
- Keep working at something
Grind down
- Reduce or destroy someone's enthusiasm
Grind into
- Press or twist something hard into something else
Grind on
- Proceed relentlessly
- Talk endlessly
Grind out
- Produce something with great difficulty
Grind up
- Reduce to small pieces
Grow (13)
Grow apart
- Become distant, stop having a close relationship because time, distance, interests, etc, have changed
Grow away from
- Become less friendly with
Grow back
- Grow again
Grow from
- Result from a process
Grow into
- Grow to fit large clothes
- Mature or change into
- Develop or change over time to fit something
Grow on
- Like something that you didn't like at first
- Have a greater influence or degree of acceptance
- Become gradually more evident
Grow out
- Let hair, etc, with dyes, perms grow to get rid of the style
Grow out of
- Grow too large for clothes
- Lose interest as you grow older or become more mature
- Result or develop from
Grow to
- Eventually do something
Grow together
- Gradually become attached, united or close
Grow up
- Mature, become adult
- Arise, emerge
- Develop in a place or for a reason (city, town, etc)
Grow up on
- Do or have something when you are a child
Grow upon
- Like something that you didn't like at first
- Have a greater influence or degree of acceptance
- Become gradually more evident
Gun (1)
Gun for
- Try to destroy an opponent
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'H'
Showing 23 Verbs, 91 Phrasal Verbs
 
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Hack (3)
Hack around
- Waste time
Hack into
- Break into a computer system
Hack off
- Annoy
Ham (1)
Ham up
- Perform or act in an excessive way to attract attention or amuse people
Hammer (3)
Hammer away at
- Work relentlessly
Hammer into
- Repeat something over a period of time to make someone remember it
Hammer out
- Negotiate and reach an agreement
Hand (6)
Hand back
- Return
Hand down
- Pass on to the next generation
- Give a formal decision
Hand in
- Submit work for appraisal
Hand on
- Give to someone else
- Transmit knowledge to the next generation
Hand out
- Distribute
Hand over
- Give
Hang (15)
Hang about
- Spend time somewhere not doing much
Hang about!
- Stop what you're doing and pay attention to me
Hang around
- Stay in a place
Hang back
- Not move forwards to avoid doing something
Hang back from
- Delay or avoid doing something
Hang in there
- Persevere, not give up
Hang on
- Wait
- Hold tightly
Hang onto
- Keep
Hang out
- Spend time socially
Hang out for
- Wait or refuse to do something until you get what you want
Hang over
- Worry or trouble
Hang together
- Work together when things are difficult
Hang up
- End a phone call
Hang up on
- End a phone call with someone
Hang with
- Spend time with
Hanker (2)
Hanker after
- Want something a lot, especially if you shouldn't want it or can't have it
Hanker for
- Want something a lot, especially if you shouldn't want it or can't have it
Harp (1)
Harp on
- Talk repeatedly about something
Have (13)
Have against
- Dislike, disagree or hold a grudge (Usually negative)
Have around
- Entertain someone in your home
Have down as
- Think of someone or something in a particular way
Have in
- Have a supply of something in a particular place
- Get someone to do some work
- Entertain people in your home
Have it away
- Have sex with someone, especially casual sex
Have it in for
- Hold a grudge
Have it off
- Have sex
Have it out with
- Discuss or argue an issue to improve a situation
Have off
- Take time off work
Have on
- Be wearing
- Have an electronic device switched on
- Have an arrangement
- Tease, deceive
- Be in possession at a particular time
- Know something about someone that could harm them
Have over
- Receive a guest
Have round
- Entertain someone in your home
Have up
- Make someone appear in court
Head (4)
Head for
- Move or travel towards
Head off
- Stop someone or force them to change direction
- Prevent something bad happening
- Leave somewhere to go to another place
Head out
- Go out
Head up
- Be in charge
Heat (1)
Heat up
- Make food hot
Help (1)
Help out
- Give assistance
Hinge (2)
Hinge on
- Depend very much or completely
- Be an essential point for the development of a story
Hinge upon
- Depend very much or completely
Hit (10)
Hit back
- Attack or criticise
Hit for
- Get someone to pay or donate money
Hit it off
- Have a good relationship from the first time you meet a person
Hit it off with
- Like someone from the first time you meet them
Hit on
- Have an idea
- Talk to someone to try to attract them sexually
- Ask for money
Hit out at
- Respond angrily to criticism
Hit up
- Inject drugs
- Ask someone for some money
Hit up on
- Inject drugs
Hit upon
- Have an idea
- Try to attract someone sexually
Hit with
- Surprise someone with some information or news
Hold (17)
Hold against
- Have a grudge against someone, or little respect
Hold back
- Not show emotion
- Prevent something moving forwards or progressing
- Not disclose information or make it public
Hold back from
- Not allow yourself to do something
Hold down
- Keep a job
- Stop someone or something from moving
Hold forth
- State your opinions about something, especially when talking for a long time and boringly
Hold off
- When bad weather doesn't appear
- Stop someone from attacking or beating you
Hold on
- Wait
- To hold tightly
Hold on to
- Hold tightly
Hold onto
- Keep as long as possible
- Hold tightly
- Hold tightly
Hold out
- Resist
- Hold in front of you
Hold out against
- Try to reject
Hold out for
- Wait for something better or refuse something now for something better in the future
Hold out on
- Not pay someone or give them information
Hold over
- Delay
- To continue something for longer than planned
Hold together
- Not break up
Hold up
- Delay when travelling
- Rob with violence or threats thereof
Hold with
- Accept (usually negative)
Home (1)
Home in on
- Target
Hone (1)
Hone in on
- Target, focus
Hook (2)
Hook up
- Meet someone
Hook up to
- Connect to a machine
Hoon (1)
Hoon around
- Act in a dangerous or reckless way, especially when driving fast
Horse (1)
Horse around
- Not be serious
Hound (1)
Hound out
- Force someone out of a place, job, position, etc.
Hunker (1)
Hunker down
- Settle in a place as comfortably as possible to stay there
Hunt (3)
Hunt down
- Search for someone to punish or kill them
Hunt out
- Search until you find something
Hunt up
- Search for and manage to find something
Hush (1)
Hush up
- Try to keep something bad from becoming widely known
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'I'
Showing 2 Verbs, 2 Phrasal Verbs
 
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Iron (1)
Iron out
- Remove small problems or irregularities
Issue (1)
Issue forth
- Come out of a place
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'J'
Showing 8 Verbs, 12 Phrasal Verbs
 
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Jack (3)
Jack around
- Make trouble for someone, fail to keep promises
Jack in
- Quit, give up
Jack up
- Raise a car to be able to do mechanical work
- Increase sharply
Jam (1)
Jam on
- Apply or operate something forcefully
Jaw (1)
Jaw away
- Talk just for the point of talking rather than having anything to say
Jazz (1)
Jazz up
- Make something more interesting or attractive
Joke (1)
Joke around
- Be funny, or try to
Jot (1)
Jot down
- Make a quick note
Juice (1)
Juice up
- Make something more exciting or perform better
Jump (3)
Jump at
- Accept eagerly
Jump in
- Enter a conversation
Jump on
- Criticize, attack
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'K'
Showing 7 Verbs, 38 Phrasal Verbs
 
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Keel (1)
Keel over
- Turn upside down
- Surrender, give in
- Fall to the ground
Keep (14)
Keep around
- Keep something near you
Keep at
- Continue with something difficult
Keep away
- Don't allow someone near something
Keep back
- Maintain a safe distance
Keep down
- Not vomit
Keep from
- Control yourself, refrain
Keep in
- Not allow someone out
Keep off
- Not talk about
- Not tread on something
Keep on
- Continue
Keep out
- Not allow someone to enter
Keep to
- Stay within limits
Keep up
- Not let someone go to bed
- Maintain a continuous action, persist
Keep up at
- Continue, not quit
Keep up with
- Move at the same rate
- Stay up to date
Key (1)
Key in
- Enter numbers or information into a computer or electronic system
Kick (9)
Kick about
- Discuss
Kick around
- Discuss
Kick around with
- Spend time with
Kick back
- Pay someone illegally as part of the price
- Resist
Kick down
- Break something with your feet
Kick in
- When a drug starts to take effect
- Break something with your feet
Kick off
- Start a game of football
- Die
- When trouble starts
- Argue, protest and refuse to co-operate
Kick out
- Expel
Kick up
- Cause trouble or pain
Kiss (2)
Kiss off
- Used to tell someone to go away
- Consider something to be unimportant or inferior
Kiss up to
- Try to get into someone's favour
Knock (9)
Knock about
- Beat someone
Knock around
- Discuss casually
Knock back
- Cost someone a lot of money
- Finish a drink quickly, drink a lot of alcohol
- Shock
Knock down
- Demolish
- Hit and injure someone
Knock it off!
- Stop doing something annoying
Knock off
- Finish work for the day
- Reduce the price of something
- Reduce the time required to do something
- Steal
- Produce or create something quickly
Knock out
- Hit and make somebody unconscious
- Sell, distribute
Knock together
- Join houses that had been separate
Knock up
- Become or get someone pregnant.
- Play a bit before a match to get ready
- Produce or create something quickly
Knuckle (2)
Knuckle down
- Make a great effort
Knuckle under
- Submit to authority
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'L'
Showing 27 Verbs, 89 Phrasal Verbs
 
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Lap (1)
Lap up
- Appreciate something
Large (1)
Large it up
- Have a good time when intoxicated
Lark (3)
Lark about
- Behave in a silly way
Lark around
- Behave in a silly way
Lark it up
- Enjoy yourself noisily and exuberantly
Lash (6)
Lash down
- Fall heavily (rain)
- Secure something with ropes or cords
Lash into
- Criticise someone strongly
Lash out
- Suddenly become violent
- React angrily
- Spend a lot of money on luxuries
Lash out against
- Criticise something strongly
Lash out at
- Hit someone suddenly, usually without warning, or try to hit them
- Criticise someone or shout at them
Lash out on
- Spend a lot of money buying something
Latch (3)
Latch on
- Understand, often after a long time
Latch on to
- Understand something, often after a long time
Latch onto
- Connect to something
- Decide or realise that something is good or profitable
Lay (5)
Lay down
- Establish rules or procedures
- Kill, murder
Lay into
- Criticise angrily
Lay off
- Make an employee redundant
Lay on
- Organise, supply
Lay out
- Spend money
Lead (1)
Lead to
- Result in
Leak (1)
Leak out
- Become public knowledge
Lean (1)
Lean on
- Put pressure on someone to get them to do what you want
Leave (2)
Leave on
- Not turn off
Leave out
- Not include
Let (5)
Let down
- Disappoint, fail to keep an arrangement
- Make clothes longer
Let in
- Allow someone to enter
Let off
- Not punish
Let on
- Tell a secret
Let out
- Allow to leave or go out
- Make a sound
- Make clothes bigger
Lie (2)
Lie down
- Rest
Lie with
- Have the right to make a decision
Lift (1)
Lift off
- Leave the ground- rocket or spaceship
Light (1)
Light up
- Light or start smoking a cigarette
- Illuminate
Lighten (1)
Lighten up
- Be less serious
Limber (2)
Limber up
- Do some exercises to warm up before playing a sport or other physical activity
Limber up for
- Prepare for something that will require a great effort
Line (1)
Line up
- Arrange in a line
- Arrange something in a line
- Arrange events for someone
Link (2)
Link up
- Connect, join
Link up with
- Connect with someone or contact them
Listen (1)
Listen out for
- Listen for a particular noise or sound
Live (12)
Live by
- Follow a belief system to guide your behaviour
Live down
- Stop being embarrassed about something
Live for
- Believe something is extremely important
Live in
- Live in the place where you work or study.
Live it up
- Have a good time by spending a lot of money
Live off
- Use money earned
Live on
- Use money for basic necessities
- Not be forgotten
Live out
- Stay somewhere until you die
- Fulfill an ambition or fantasy
- Not live at the place where you study or work
Live through
- Experience different times
Live together
- Have a relationship and live in the same place without marrying
Live up to
- Meet expectations or standards
Live with
- Accept something unpleasant
- Have a relationship and live in the same place without marrying
Load (3)
Load down
- Burden
Load up
- Take illegal drugs
- Fill a machine or vehicle
Load up on
- Consume a lot of something for a particular purpose
Lock (7)
Lock away
- Lock in a safe place
- Put someone in prison or a mental hospital for a very long time
Lock down
- Make very secure
Lock in
- Lock a place to stop someone leaving
- Commit someone in such a way that they cannot leave
Lock onto
- Find a target and head for it
Lock out
- Close a workplace to stop workers entering
- Lock a place to stop someone getting in
Lock up
- Close all doors, windows, etc.
- Lock something in a safe place
- Put in prison or a mental hospital
Lock yourself away
- Go somewhere away from people to study or work
Log (5)
Log in
- Enter a restricted area on a computer system
Log into
- Enter a restricted area of a computer system
Log off
- Exit a computer system
Log on
- Enter a computer system
Log out
- Exit a computer system
Look (17)
Look after
- Take care
Look back
- Think about the past
Look down on
- Have a low opinion of
Look for
- Try to find
Look forward to
- Wait for or anticipate something pleasant
Look in
- Make a quick visit
Look in on
- Visit briefly to see if everything's all right
Look into
- Research, investigate
Look on
- Watch something like a crime without helping
Look on as
- Consider, regard
Look out
- Be careful
Look over
- Inspect
Look round
- Inspect a house
Look to
- Expect, hope
Look up
- Consult a reference work (dictionary, phonebook, etc.) for a specific piece of information.
- Improve
- Find, trace an old friend
Look up to
- Respect
Look upon as
- Consider, regard
Lord (1)
Lord it over
- Behave in a superior manner
Lose (3)
Lose out
- Be at a disadvantage
Lose out on
- Not gain or have something advantageous
Lose out to
- Be less successful
Luck (1)
Luck out
- Be very lucky
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'M'
Showing 22 Verbs, 56 Phrasal Verbs
 
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Magic (1)
Magic away
- Make something disappear quickly
Make (12)
Make do with
- Accept something less satisfactory because there's no alternative
Make for
- Head in a certain direction
Make into
- Change something into something else
Make it
- Arrive or get a result
Make it up to
- Try to compensate for doing something wrong
Make off with
- Steal
Make out
- Make a cheque payable to somebody
- Pretend
- Progress
- Kiss and pet
Make over
- Change appearance
Make up
- Stop being angry with someone
- Put on cosmetics
- Invent a story
Make up for
- Compensate
Make up to
- Increase a sum received to a higher figure
Make with
- Give (usually used as an imperative)
Mark (7)
Mark down
- Give a student a lower grade for a particular reason
- Reduce the price of something
Mark down as
- Consider someone or something to be of a certain group, type, etc.
Mark off
- Tick, cross out or otherwise mark something to show that it has been dealt with
Mark out
- Draw lines to enclose an area
Mark out for
- Show promise for the future
Mark out from
- Stand out because of certain qualities
Mark up
- Increase the price of something
Marry (2)
Marry in
- Marry someone of the same ethnicity, religion, etc
Marry out
- Marry someone of a different ethnicity, religion, etc
Mash (1)
Mash up
- Crush something until it becomes a paste
- Mix sources of audio, video or other computer sources.
- Break or damage
Max (1)
Max out
- Take something to the limit, reach a limit
Measure (4)
Measure against
- Evaluate or judge by comparison
Measure off
- Measure something and mark the point where it ends or will be cut
Measure out
- Measure or weigh the amount needed
Measure up
- Find the size of something
- Be good enough, meet the required standard
Meet (1)
Meet with
- Have something happen to you
Mess (7)
Mess about
- Not be serious, not use something properly
- Treat someone badly
- Have a sexual relationship outside marriage or a permanent relationship
Mess about with
- Have a sexual relationship outside marriage or a permanent relationship
- Try to improve something, usually making things worse
Mess around
- Not be serious, play with something
- Treat someone badly
- Have a sexual relationship outside marriage or a permanent relationship
Mess around with
- Have a sexual relationship outside marriage or a permanent relationship
- Try to improve something, usually making things worse
Mess over
- Treat someone badly
Mess up
- Spoil or ruin
- Make something untidy or dirty
- Cause mental, physical or emotional problems
Mess with
- Become involved in something damaging or dangerous
- Annoy, bother
- Associate (negative)
- Try to repair or improve, usually unsuccessfully
Mill (1)
Mill around
- Walk around without going anywhere
Miss (2)
Miss out
- Not do something enjoyable or rewarding
- Not include
Miss out on
- Lose a chance, fail to achieve
Mix (1)
Mix up
- Confuse
- Make something lively
Monkey (1)
Monkey around
- Not be serious
Mooch (2)
Mooch about
- Spend time doing little or nothing
Mooch around
- Spend time doing little or nothing
Mop (1)
Mop up
- Resolve a problem
- Kill or capture the last few enemy soldiers after a victory.
- Eat a sauce with bread to finish it
- Remove a liquid that has been spilt
Mope (2)
Mope about
- Move around being miserable
Mope around
- Move around being miserable
Mount (1)
Mount up
- Increase over time
Mouth (1)
Mouth off
- Speak angrily about something
Move (1)
Move on
- Change the subject or your job
- Make people move from a place
Mug (2)
Mug up
- Study quickly, revise
Mug up on
- Study something quickly, revise
Mull (1)
Mull over
- Think about an issue or problem
Muscle (4)
Muscle in
- Become involved in something when your involvement is not wanted
Muscle in on
- Become involved in something despite opposition to your involvement
Muscle into
- Become involved even though there is opposition to your involvement
Muscle out
- Use power, contacts, etc, to force someone out
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'N'
Showing 9 Verbs, 11 Phrasal Verbs
 
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Naff (1)
Naff off
- Get lost, go away (used as imperative)
Nag (1)
Nag at
- Repeatedly criticise someone verbally
Nail (1)
Nail down
- Succeed in getting, achieve
- Understand fully
- Get full information from someone
- Succeed or achieve something
Name (1)
Name after
- Give someone a name to remember another person
Nip (2)
Nip off
- Go somewhere quickly
Nip out
- Go somewhere quickly
Nod (1)
Nod off
- Fall asleep
Nose (2)
Nose about
- Look for something hidden or secret
Nose around
- Look around for evidence
Note (1)
Note down
- Write something short like a phone number for future reference.
Nut (1)
Nut out
- Find an answer to a problem
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'O'
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Occur (1)
Occur to
- Enter one's mind
Open (1)
Open up
- Start to talk freely about something
- Open a shop or business for the day
- Allow goods into a market
Opt (2)
Opt for
- Choose
Opt out
- Choose not to be part of something
Owe (1)
Owe to
- Be the reason for something
Own (1)
Own up
- Confess
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'P'
Showing 46 Verbs, 147 Phrasal Verbs
 
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Pack (6)
Pack away
- Put something where it belongs
Pack in
- Stop doing something
- End a relationship
- Fill a venue
- Break down, stop working
Pack it in
- Stop doing something (used as an imperative)
Pack off
- Send someone away
Pack out
- Fill a venue
Pack up
- Stop doing something
- Finish work
- Break down, stop working
- Collect things and put them where you keep them
Pad (2)
Pad down
- Sleep somewhere for the night
Pad out
- Make a text longer by including extra content, often content that isn't particularly relevant
Pair (3)
Pair off
- Begin a romantic relationship
- Introduce people, hoping they will start a relationship
- Form pairs
Pair off with
- Form a pair with someone
Pair up
- Form a pair
Palm (1)
Palm off
- Get someone to accept something that isn't true
- Pretend something is better than it is in order to sell it
Pan (1)
Pan out
- The way a situation develops
Paper (1)
Paper over
- Try to conceal a problem without really fixing it
Pare (2)
Pare back
- If you pare something back, you reduce the size or numbers.
Pare down
- Reduce, decrease
Pass (12)
Pass around
- Give out to everybody there
Pass as
- Be believed to be something
Pass away
- Die
Pass by
- Go past without stopping
- Visit briefly
- Miss an opportunity
Pass for
- Be accepted as something, usually when not
Pass off
- Convince something that something is real
- Happen in a certain way
Pass on
- Give a message to someone
- Decline an invitation or opportunity
- Die
Pass out
- Faint, lose consciousness
Pass over
- Ignore someone and give a job, reward, etc, to someone more junior
Pass through
- Visit a place without stopping or only stopping briefly
Pass to
- Give ownership or responsibility to someone
Pass up
- Decline a chance
Patch (1)
Patch up
- Fix or make things better
Pay (4)
Pay back
- Repay money borrowed
- Take revenge on
Pay for
- Purchase
Pay into
- Deposit money
Pay off
- Completely repay a debt
- Produce a profitable or successful result
Peck (1)
Peck at
- Eat very small amounts
Peg (4)
Peg away
- Keep working at something
Peg down
- Fasten something to the ground
Peg it
- Die
Peg out
- Put washing outside to dry
- Die
Pencil (1)
Pencil in
- Make a provisional appointment
Perk (1)
Perk up
- Feel better or happier, make someone feel better or happier
Peter (1)
Peter out
- Lose impetus and stop
Phase (2)
Phase in
- Introduce gradually
Phase out
- Remove gradually
Pick (9)
Pick at
- Eat unwillingly
- Criticise
Pick off
- Target individuals to change a group
Pick on
- Bother, annoy, criticize or make fun of someone
Pick out
- Choose
- Identify from a picture
Pick through
- Search something that is disordered for something
Pick up
- Improve
- Learn quickly
- Collect
- Receive (a broadcast)
- Collect (a person). This differs from the 'collect a thing' meaning - as that means 'collect and bring back' whereas this means either (i) 'collect and drop off on your way' or (ii) 'collect and bring to the same destination'.
Pick up after
- Tidy a mess someone else has made
Pick up on
- Correct someone when they say something wrong
- Notice something that most people don't
- React to something
- Comment on something said earlier in a conversation
Pick yourself up
- Recover from a fall or problem
Pig (2)
Pig off
- Used to tell someone to get lost or leave you alone
Pig out
- Eat a lot
Pile (1)
Pile up
- Accumulate
Pin (3)
Pin down
- Get a fixed idea, opinion, etc, from someone.
- Discover exact details about something
Pin on
- Attach the blame to someone
Pin up
- Fix something to a wall, or other vertical surface, with a pin
Pine (1)
Pine away
- Suffer physically because of grief, stress, worry, etc
Pipe (2)
Pipe down
- Be quiet (often as an imperative)
Pipe up
- To speak, raise your voice
Pit (2)
Pit against
- Compete or force to compete
Pit out
- Go into the pits (car racing)
Pitch (3)
Pitch for
- Try to persuade someone to give your work, business, a job, etc
Pitch in
- Work together to help achieve an objective
Pitch into
- Criticise severely or attack someone
Play (13)
Play along
- Pretend to agree or accept something in order to keep someone happy or to get more information
Play around
- Be silly
Play at
- Pretend to be something
Play away
- Be sexually unfaithful when away from home
Play back
- Listen to or watch something you've recorded
Play down
- Try to make something seem less important
Play off
- Play a game to decide who the winner is
- Make people compete against each other so that you benefit
Play on
- Continue playing a sport though there might be a reason to stop
- Continue playing music
- Exploit a weakness
- Pun
Play out
- Progress, often till it finishes
- Pretend that something is real and reduce its effect
- Play something to the end
Play up
- Behave badly
Play up to
- Flatter someone
Play upon
- Exploit a weakness
Play with
- Touch and move something to occupy your hands
- Not eat much of a meal
- Consider something, but not seriously
Plead (1)
Plead out
- Plead guilty to get a reduced sentence or fine
Plough (5)
Plough back
- Re-invest money you have made into a business
Plough into
- Collide into at speed
Plough on
- Continue doing something you don't want to
Plough through
- Eat a big meal
- Read something that is difficult or takes a lot of time
- Move through somewhere where there is little space or there are obstacles
Plough up
- Break the surface of soil
Plow (5)
Plow back
- Re-invest money you have made into a business
Plow into
- Collide into at speed
Plow on
- Continue doing something you don't want to
Plow through
- Eat a big meal
- Read something that is difficult or takes a lot of time
- Move through somewhere where there is little space or there are obstacles
Plow up
- Break the surface of soil
Plug (1)
Plug in
- Connect machines to the electricity supply
Plump (1)
Plump for
- Choose
Point (1)
Point out
- Make someone aware of something
Polish (2)
Polish off
- Finish, consume
Polish up
- Improve something quickly
Pony (1)
Pony up
- Pay for something
Poop (2)
Poop out
- Get too tired to do something
Poop out on
- Fail to keep an appointment
Pop (4)
Pop in
- Visit for a short time
Pop off
- Talk loudly, complain
- Go out for a short time
Pop out
- Go out for a short time
Pop up
- Appear, like windows and boxes opening on a computer screen.
- Appear unexpectedly
Potter (2)
Potter about
- Spend time doing little things for pleasure
Potter around
- Spend some time doing little things for pleasure
Pour (2)
Pour down
- Rain hard
Pour forth
- Emerge from a place in large numbers
Prattle (1)
Prattle on
- Talk too much
Press (2)
Press ahead
- Continue with something
Press on
- Continue with something
Price (1)
Price up
- Charge more for something
Print (1)
Print out
- Make a hard copy of a computer document
Prop (1)
Prop up
- Support something, both physically and financially, politically, etc.
Psych (2)
Psych out
- Work out or anticipate someone's intentions
- Make someone less confident
Psych up
- Prepare someone mentally
Pull (16)
Pull ahead
- Overtake, move in front
Pull apart
- Destroy an argument, theory, etc
- Stop people or animals fighting
- Make someone unhappy or upset
Pull away
- When a vehicle moves from a place
Pull back
- Score a goal or point when losing
- Move away from a place, especially when talking about soldiers
- Move away from someone
- Decide not to do something or not to be involved with it any longer
Pull down
- Demolish
- Make someone depressed
- Earn
Pull for
- Support
Pull in
- When a train arrives at a station
- Attract
- Stop a car by the side of the road
- Areest or take someone to a police station for questioning
Pull off
- Manage to do something difficult or tricky
- Start moving (vehicles)
Pull on
- Put clothes on
Pull out
- Start moving (train)
- Move into traffic
- Withdraw
- Remove soldiers from an area
Pull over
- Stop by the side of the road
- Make a vehicle stop
Pull through
- Recover from and illness or problem
Pull to
- Close a door or window that has been left open
Pull together
- Work together as a team
Pull up
- Slow and stop a car
- Inform someone that they are wrong
Pull yourself together
- Become calm or regain control of your emotions
Push (1)
Push in
- Get in a queue without waiting
Put (16)
Put across
- Communicate, convey a message
Put away
- Put something back in the correct place
- Put someone in prison
Put back
- Rearrange something for a later time
Put by
- Save for the future
Put down
- Kill an animal because it's old, ill, etc.
- Stop holding (but withdraw support gently)
Put down for
- Commit to make a payment
Put down to
- Give as an explanation
Put in
- Install
Put in for
- Make a request
Put off
- Postpone
- Stop liking something or somebody
Put on
- Get fat
- Deceive, lie
- Start wearing
Put out
- Broadcast
- Disturb or trouble someone
- Extinguish a cigarette, fire, etc.
Put through
- Connect someone by phone
Put towards
- Make a financial contribution
Put up
- Allow someone to stay at your house for a night or a few days.
- Increase prices, taxes, duties, etc.
Put up with
- Tolerate
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'Q'
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Quieten (1)
Quieten down
- Fall silent
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'R'
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Rack (1)
Rack up
- Acquire a lot of something
Rain (1)
Rain down on
- Fall in large numbers
Rake (2)
Rake it in
- Make a lot of money
Rake up
- Bring something back to people's attention
Ramp (1)
Ramp up
- Increase price, speed or power of something
Rat (3)
Rat on
- Inform authorities about someone's wrongdoings
- Fail to keep a promise
Rat out
- Inform the authorities about someone
Rat through
- Look for something hurriedly
Ratchet (1)
Ratchet up
- Increase
Rattle (1)
Rattle off
- Quote figures rapidly
Reach (3)
Reach out
- Stretch your arm to get something
Reach out for
- Try to achieve something difficult
Reach out to
- Ask for help
- Offer help
- Try to communicate and establish good relations with people
Read (3)
Read off
- Read a list aloud for someone to write down
Read out
- Read aloud rather than silently
Read up on
- Research
Reckon (1)
Reckon on
- The minimum expected
Reel (3)
Reel in
- Catch a fish on a line and pull the line to land
- Attract people, especially customers, to get them to do what you want them to
Reel off
- Quote statistics or facts rapidly
- Score a lot of points or win a lot of games one after the other
Reel out
- Unwind
Rein (1)
Rein in
- Control someone or something to stop them causing more trouble
Ride (4)
Ride off
- Go away on a bike, horse, etc
Ride on
- Depend on
Ride out
- Survive a difficult time
Ride up
- Move higher on the body (of clothes)
Ring (3)
Ring back
- Return a phonecall
Ring off
- Finish a phone conversation
Ring up
- Telephone
Rip (1)
Rip off
- Charge excessively or obtain money unfairly
Roll (7)
Roll back
- Retreat
- Reduce or remove
Roll in
- Arrive somewhere, especially if late
- Arrive in large numbers, for military vehicles
Roll on
- When something continues to happen
Roll on!
- Said when you can't wait for something nice in the future
Roll out
- Launch or introduce a new product, initiative, etc.
Roll up
- To appear in large numbers for an event
Roll up!
- An imperative used to attract people to a public event
Romp (2)
Romp in
- Win easily
Romp through
- Do something easily or quickly
Room (1)
Room in
- To keep a mother and baby together after the birth
Root (5)
Root about
- Look in a place to try to find something
Root around
- Look in a place to try to find something
Root for
- Support
Root out
- Look for and find
- Find the source of a problem and remove it
Root up
- Dig a plant out of the ground
Rope (1)
Rope in
- Get somebody to help
Rough (1)
Rough up
- Assault
Round (1)
Round off
- Finish something in a satisfactory manner
Row (1)
Row back
- Retreat from a position
Rub (8)
Rub along
- Have a reasonably good relationship
Rub down
- Dry or clean something with a cloth
- Massage or rub someone to help them relax
Rub in
- Apply a substance like cream or ointment and rub it until it is absorbed
Rub it in
- Emphasise how bad a situation is to make someone feel worse
Rub off on
- Pass a quality or characteristic to people
Rub out
- Delete ink or pencil with an eraser
- Kill
Rub up against
- Touch someone in a sensual or sexual way
Rub up on
- Revise
Rule (1)
Rule out
- Exclude a possibility
Run (19)
Run across
- Meet or find accidentally
Run after
- Chase, pursue
- Try to become romantically involved with someone
Run against
- Oppose, make difficulties
Run along
- Go away, leave (often as an imperative)
Run away
- Escape from people chasing you
- Leave home because of problems with other family members or to elope
Run down
- Hit a pedestrian with a vehicle
- Lose energy or power
- Criticise, disparage
- Find the source or origin of something
Run for
- Campaign for a position
Run in
- Arrest, take to police station for questioning
- Drive a new car carefully in order not to damage the engine
- Pay a casual visit
- Insert
Run into
- Cost
- Meet by accident
Run off
- Make photocopies
Run on
- Be powered by
Run out of
- Have none left
Run over
- Explain quickly
- Hit with a vehicle
- Exceed a time limit
Run through
- Practise a dramatic work like a play quickly
- Stab or wound deeply with a knife, sword, etc.
Run to
- Go to someone for help
- Include in things you like
- Have enough money to buy something, often negative
Run up
- Move quickly to where someone is
- Hoist, raise a flag
- Do or make something very quickly
- Spend a lot of money on credit
Run up against
- Encounter problems, often unexpected
Run up on
- Approach someone without their knowing
Run with
- Keep company, normally bad
Rush (1)
Rush into
- Do something too quickly
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'S'
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Sag (1)
Sag off
- Not go to school or work, or leave early when you shouldn't
Sail (2)
Sail into
- Criticise angrily
Sail through
- Pass easily, succeed
Sally (2)
Sally forth
- Leave somewhere safe or comfortable
Sally out
- Leave somewhere safe or comfortable
Salt (1)
Salt away
- Save money
Save (2)
Save on
- Reduce or avoid consumption to cut costs
Save up
- For money for a particular purpose
- Collect or store something for future use
Scare (2)
Scare away
- Frighten someone some much that they go away
Scare off
- Make someone so frightened that he or she away
Scout (5)
Scout about
- Look in different places for something
Scout around
- Look in different places for something
Scout out
- Search for something
Scout round
- Look in different places for something
Scout up
- Try to find someone for a task or requirement
Scrape (7)
Scrape along
- Manage with little money
Scrape by
- Just manage to pass something
Scrape in
- Just get enough to succeed, pass or be accepted
Scrape into
- Be accepted somewhere, but only just
Scrape through
- Pass a test but only just
Scrape together
- Manage to collect enough of something you need, usually money
Scrape up
- Manage to collect enough of something you need, usually money
Screen (2)
Screen off
- Separate a part of a room with something like a curtain, screen, etc.
Screen out
- Exclude
- Block light
- Stop noticing something
Screw (2)
Screw around
- Waste time
- Be sexually promiscuous
Screw up
- Do badly or fail
See (6)
See about
- Arrange, consider
See into
- Accompany someone into an office
See off
- Chase somebody or something away
- Go to the airport, station, etc., to say goodbye to someone
See out
- Accompany a guest to your front door when they are leaving your house
See through
- Continue with something to the end
- Realise someone is lying or being deceitful
See to
- Deal with something
Sell (4)
Sell off
- Sell a business or part of it
- Sell something cheaply because you need the money or don't need it
Sell on
- Convince someone
- Buy something then sell it to someone else
Sell out
- Have no more of something left because it has been bought
- Lose all artistic integrity in return for commercial success
Sell up
- Sell a house or business to move somewhere or do something different
Send (8)
Send back
- Return something
Send for
- Ask someone to come and help
Send in
- Order people into a place to handle a problem
- Write to get information
Send off
- Expel a sports player from a match
- Post a letter
Send off for
- Order something by post
Send out
- Send something to a lot of people
Send out for
- Order takeaway food by phone
Send up
- Imitate/impersonate for comic effect
Set (8)
Set about
- Start doing something
Set aside
- Overturn a court verdict or decision
Set back
- Cost
Set forth
- State or outline an opinion
- Start a journey
Set in
- Change season noticeably
Set off
- Explode a bomb
- Ring an alarm
- Start a journey
- Counterbalance a debt
Set out
- Display, show
- Start a journey
Set up
- Prepare equipment, software, etc., for use
- Start a company
Settle (5)
Settle down
- Start living a fixed and routine life
Settle for
- Accept whatever is available
Settle in
- Get used to
Settle on
- Agree
Settle up
- Pay a debt
Sex (1)
Sex up
- Change information to make it more attractive to the reader or listener
Shack (1)
Shack up
- Live with someone when you are in a relationship.
- Live somewhere temporarily
Shake (2)
Shake down
- Search
- Extort or cheat money from someone
Shake off
- Get rid of an illness
Shape (1)
Shape up
- Develop in a positive way
- Improve to reach an acceptable standard
Shave (1)
Shave off
- Shave completely
- Reduce by a small amount
Shell (1)
Shell out
- Spend money on something, especially when you think it's too expensive
Ship (3)
Ship
- Send goods to a place
Ship off
- Send someone away, often because of a problem
Ship out
- Leave a place
Shoot (5)
Shoot away
- Leave somewhere quickly
Shoot back
- Return quickly
Shoot off
- Leave promptly and quickly
Shoot out
- Go out for a short time
Shoot up
- Increase quickly
- Take illicit drugs intravenously.
- Damage with gun-shots
- Increase quickly, grow
Shop (1)
Shop around
- Look around for the best price, quality, etc.
Short (1)
Short out
- Short circuit
Show (8)
Show around
- Take someone to a place to show them certain parts
Show in
- Take someone into an office or other room
Show off
- Behave in a way so as to attract attention
- Display something you are proud of
- Make the qualities of another thing more apparent
Show out
- Take someone to out of a room or building
Show over
- Take someone around a site
Show round
- Take someone to a place to show them certain parts
Show through
- When a feeling can be seen despite attempts to conceal it
Show up
- Attend something or arrive somewhere
- Become clear or apparent
- Make someone feel embarrassed or ashamed
Shrug (1)
Shrug off
- Disregard something, not consider it important or harmful
Shut (8)
Shut away
- Imprison or remove someone's freedom
Shut down
- Close a business, shop, etc.
- Turn a computer off
Shut in
- Prevent someone from leaving
Shut off
- Close, prevent access
Shut out
- Exclude
Shut out of
- Exclude someone from an activity, etc
Shut up
- Stop talking or making noise
- Close for a period of time
Shut yourself away
- Withdraw from company
Shy (1)
Shy away from
- Avoid doing something because you lack confidence
Side (1)
Side with
- Support someone
Sift (1)
Sift through
- Examine a lot of things carefully
Sign (11)
Sign away
- Give away legal or property rights
Sign for
- Write a signature on behalf on someone
Sign in
- Register in a hotel
- Open a computer program that requires a name and password
- Write your name when entering a place
Sign into
- Open a particular computer program that requires a name and password
Sign off
- End a message
- Close a claim for unemployment benefit
- Stop doing something to leave
- Give someone a letter to be away from work
Sign on
- Open a claim for unemployment benefit
- Agree to participate
- Start broadcasting
- Employ
Sign on with
- Sign a document joining or agreeing to something
Sign out
- Close a computer program that requires a name and password
- Sign something to show you have borrowed something
Sign out of
- Close a particular computer program that requires a name and password
Sign up
- Give your name to do something
- Subscribe
Sign with
- Make a contract with
Simmer (1)
Simmer down
- Become calmer, make less noise
Sink (1)
Sink in
- Slowly come to be understood
Sit (14)
Sit about
- Sit and do nothing, especially when you should be working
Sit around
- Sit idly, doing nothing
Sit back
- Wait for something to happen without making any effort
- Relax in a chair
Sit by
- Not try to stop something
Sit down
- Help someone to sit
Sit for
- Pose for an artist or photographer
- Look after children while their parents are out
Sit in
- Occupy a building to protest about something
Sit in for
- Take on someone's responsibilities while they are absent
Sit in on
- Attend as an observer
Sit on
- Be on a committee
- To handle somebody firmly who behaves impertinently, conceitedly
- Hold information back or keep it secret
Sit out
- Not take part
Sit over
- Eat or drink slowly
Sit through
- Stay till the end of something dull
Sit with
- Reconcile different positions
Size (1)
Size up
- Assess a situation or person carefully.
- Make something bigger or produce bigger products
Skive (1)
Skive off
- Avoid doing work or other duty
Slack (1)
Slack off
- Reduce one's effort, perform with less enthusiasm and energy
Slag (1)
Slag off
- Criticise heavily
Sleep (4)
Sleep off
- Sleep in order to recover from excess alcohol, drugs, etc.
Sleep on
- Think about something
Sleep over
- Spend the night at someone else's house
Sleep through
- Not wake up
Slip (2)
Slip out
- Leave discreetly
Slip up
- Make an error
Slob (2)
Slob about
- Be lazy, do nothing
Slob around
- Be lazy, do nothing
Slope (1)
Slope off
- Leave somewhere without letting others know
Slough (1)
Slough off
- Get rid of, dispose
- Lose or shed outer layers of skin
Slow (2)
Slow down
- Reduce speed
- Become less active
Slow up
- Slow the progress of something
Smack (1)
Smack of
- Appear to have a negative quality
Smash (3)
Smash down
- Demolish or break something down
Smash in
- Break something by hitting it repeatedly
Smash up
- Destroy, break into many pieces
Snap (4)
Snap off
- Break a piece off something
Snap out of
- Control negative emotions
Snap to it!
- Do something quickly
Snap up
- Get, acquire or buy something quickly
Sniff (3)
Sniff around
- Look around to see how good something is or to try to find something better
Sniff at
- Disapprove or be scornful
Sniff out
- Find something be smell (usually for dogs)
- Find out information, especially when people don't want anyone to know
Snuff (1)
Snuff out
- Extinguish a small flame by covering it
- Kill
- End something suddenly
Sober (1)
Sober up
- Stop showing the effects of alcohol or drugs
Soldier (1)
Soldier on
- Continue even when things get difficult
Sort (1)
Sort out
- Resolve a problem
Sound (2)
Sound off
- To express your opinions forcefully
Sound out
- Check what someone thinks about an issue, idea, etc.
Spark (2)
Spark off
- Cause something, usually unpleasant, to happen
Spark up
- Light a cigarette or joint
Speak (2)
Speak out
- Talk openly and freely
Speak up
- Talk more loudly
Spell (1)
Spell out
- Explain something in great detail
Spew (2)
Spew out
- Expel, throw out
Spew up
- Vomit
Spin (2)
Spin off
- Produce an unexpected additional benefit
- Form a separate company from part of an existing one
- Create a TV show using characters from a popular show
Spin out
- Lose control (vehicle)
- Make something last as long as possible
Spit (2)
Spit it out
- An informal way of telling someone to say something they are unwilling to say
Spit out
- Say something angrily
Split (1)
Split up
- Divide into groups
- Finish a relationship
Spoil (1)
Spoil for
- Really want something
Spruce (1)
Spruce up
- To smarten, make something neat and tidy
Spur (1)
Spur on
- Encourage someone to continue
Square (6)
Square away
- Finish or sort something out
Square off
- Confront someone or prepare to fight them
Square off against
- Confront someone or prepare to fight them
Square up
- Pay back a debt
- Confront someone or prepare to fight them
Square up to
- Accept responsibility or guilt
Square with
- Match, conform to
- Check with someone that something is OK
Squeeze (1)
Squeeze up
- Get more people into a space than normal or comfortable
Stack (2)
Stack up
- Put things in a pile
- Accumulate
- Increase, accumulate something
- Be logical, make sense
- Build up the number of planes waiting to land at an airport
Stack up against
- Be as good as something
Staff (1)
Staff up
- Employ someone for something specific
Stamp (1)
Stamp out
- Get rid of something
Stand (12)
Stand about
- Spend time in a place waiting or doing nothing or very little
Stand around
- Spend time in a place waiting or doing nothing or very little
Stand aside
- Leave a position so that someone else can take it
Stand back
- Keep a distance from something
- Try to understand something by taking a different perspective
Stand by
- Support someone
- Be ready and waiting for something to happen
Stand down
- Leave a job or position so that someone else can take it
- Finish being asked questions in a court
Stand for
- Accept or tolerate behaviour
- The words represented by certain initials
Stand in for
- Substitute someone temporarily
Stand out
- Be extraordinary and different
Stand up
- Move from a sitting or lying down to a vertical position
- Fail to keep an appointment
Stand up for
- Defend, support
Stand up to
- Keep your principles when challenged by an authority
- Resist damage
Start (9)
Start off
- Make something start
- Begin life, a career or existence
- Begin a journey
- Make someone laugh
Start off on
- Help someone to start a piece or work or activity
Start on
- Begin to use or consume
- Criticise angrily
Start on at
- Criticise or nag
Start out
- Begin a journey
Start out as
- Begin life, existence or a career
Start out to
- Intend, plan
Start over
- Begin something again
Start up
- Open a business
- Begin, especially sounds
- When an engine starts working
- Make an engine work
- Sit or stand upright because someone has surprised you
Stash (1)
Stash away
- Store or hide something in a safe place
Stay (7)
Stay away
- Not come
Stay away from
- Avoid, not come
Stay in
- Not go out
Stay on
- Remain longer than anticipated
Stay out
- Not go home
Stay over
- Stay overnight
Stay up
- Not go to bed
Steer (1)
Steer clear of
- Avoid
Stem (1)
Stem from
- Originate, be caused by
Step (9)
Step aside
- Leave a job or position so that someone else can take over
Step back
- Look at something from a different perspective
Step down
- Leave a job or position so that someone can take over
- Reduce
Step forward
- Offer help
Step in
- Get involved by interrupting something
Step on it
- An imperative used to tell someone to go faster, especially when driving
Step out
- Leave a place for a very short time
Step to
- Confront
- Chat, talk to
Step up
- Increase
Stick (12)
Stick around
- Stay in a place for some time
Stick at
- Continue doing something despite difficulties
Stick by
- Support someone when they are having difficulties
- Support a plan, opinion or decision
Stick down
- Write something quickly or without thinking about it
- Join surfaces with glue
Stick it to
- Criticise someone
- Treat someone badly or unfairly
Stick out
- Be easily noticed
- Extend part of your body
- Continue doing something difficult or unpleasant
Stick out for
- Demand a salary raise
Stick to
- Not change
- Restrict or limit and not change
Stick together
- Support each other
Stick up
- Stand on end
- Rob using weapons
Stick up for
- Support or defend
Stick with
- Not change something
- Stay near someone
- Not be forgotten
- Continue with something difficult or unpleasant
Stir (1)
Stir up
- Make trouble for someone else
Stitch (1)
Stitch up
- Sew something so that it is closed
- Finalise a deal
- Cheat someone or make them look guilty when they aren't
Stop (9)
Stop around
- Visit someone for a short time.
Stop back
- Return somewhere
Stop behind
- Stay somewhere when other people leave
Stop by
- Visit somewhere briefly or quickly
Stop in
- Stay at home
- Visit briefly
Stop off
- Break a journey
Stop out
- Be out late, especially when you are expected home
Stop over
- Stay somewhere when on a journey
Stop up
- Stay up late
- Fill or block something
Storm (2)
Storm off
- Leave a place angrily
Storm out
- Leave a place angrily
Stow (1)
Stow away
- Hide in a vehicle to travel without people knowing
- Store something in a safe place
Straighten (2)
Straighten out
- Make something straight
- Deal with a problem
- Make clear and resolve
- Improve someone's behaviour
Straighten up
- Stand straight
- Tidy
Strike (7)
Strike back
- Attack, take action against someone who has hurt you
Strike down
- Kill
- Make someone ill
- Disallow a law, decision, etc
Strike off
- Remove someone's professional licence to practise
Strike on
- Have a good idea
Strike out
- Start doing something new and different
- Try to hit someone
- Start going towards a place
- Cross writing out
Strike up
- Start (conversation, relationship)
- Start performing music
Strike upon
- Have a good idea
String (4)
String along
- Deceive someone for a long time
- Accompany someone because you haven't got anything better to do
String out
- Make something last as long as possible
String together
- Put words together into a coherent text
String up
- Hang somebody
Stub (1)
Stub out
- Extinguish a cigarette
Stuff (1)
Stuff up
- Make a mistake, do badly, spoil
Stumble (2)
Stumble across
- Find something accidentally
Stumble upon
- Find something accidentally
Stump (1)
Stump up
- Pay for something
Suck (3)
Suck in
- Become involved in something unpleasant
Suck into
- Become involved in something unpleasant
Suck up to
- Ingratiate yourself with someone
Sum (1)
Sum up
- Summarise
Summon (1)
Summon up
- Get the energy or courage to do something
Suss (1)
Suss out
- Come to understand
Swan (4)
Swan about
- Move in a dramatic or affected manner
Swan around
- Move in a dramatic or affected manner
Swan in
- Enter in a dramatic or attention-seeking manner
Swan off
- Leave somewhere in a defiant or pompous manner
Swear (2)
Swear by
- Have great confidence in
Swear down
- Promise that something is true
Sweep (1)
Sweep through
- Pass easily, succeed
- Move quickly through
Swing (4)
Swing around
- Change your opinion quickly
- Turn around quickly
Swing at
- Try to hit
Swing by
- Visit a person or place on your way somewhere
Swing round
- Change your opinion quickly
- Turn around quickly
Syphon (1)
Syphon off
- Take business, support or votes from someone
- Divert money illegally
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'T'
Showing 35 Verbs, 126 Phrasal Verbs
 
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Tack (2)
Tack on
- Add something that wasn't planned
Tack onto
- Add or attach something that wasn't planned to something
Tag (4)
Tag along
- Accompany someone, especially if they haven't specifically invited you
Tag on
- Add an additional point to something written or spoken
Tag onto
- Add an additional point to something written or spoken
Tag with
- Add a keyword link or bookmark to a blog entry or webpage
Tail (3)
Tail away
- Become silent or inaudible
Tail back
- Form a traffic jam
Tail off
- Become silent or inaudible
- Decrease
Take (16)
Take after
- Look like, resemble
Take apart
- Take something to pieces
Take aside
- Get someone alone to talk to them
Take away
- Remove
Take back
- Make someone nostalgic
- Retract a statement, admit that something was wrong
Take down
- Make notes or write down in full
- Remove
Take in
- Absorb information
- Deceive
- Make clothes smaller
Take it
- Accept criticism
Take it out on
- Abuse someone because you're angry
Take it upon yourself
- Take responsibility, often without consulting other people
Take off
- Make great progress
- Reduce the price of an item
- When a plane departs or leaves the ground
- Remove
Take on
- Allow passengers on a ship or plane
- Assume a responsibility
- Employ
Take out
- Borrow a library book
- Borrow money from a bank or other official lender
- Extract or remove
- Go out socially with someone, especially a date
- Obtain insurance
- Kill, murder
Take over
- Assume control of a company or organisation
Take to
- Make a habit of something
Take up
- Fill or occupy time or space
- Make clothes shorter
- Start a new hobby, pastime, etc.
Talk (8)
Talk back
- Respond rudely to a person in authority
Talk down
- Try to make something sound less important
Talk down to
- Talk in a way to show your superiority not communicate
Talk into
- Persuade someone to do something
Talk out of
- Persuade someone not to do something
Talk over
- Discuss
Talk through
- Guide someone through an issue
Talk up
- Make something appear more important or significant than it really is
Tap (5)
Tap for
- Get money off someone
Tap into
- Use or exploit a plentiful resource for your benefit
Tap off with
- Have sex with
Tap out
- Play a rhythm quietly
Tap up
- Approach a footballer illegally to get them to change teams
Tear (7)
Tear apart
- Disturb or upset greatly
Tear at
- Pull or try to pull something to pieces
Tear away
- Stop someone doing something unwillingly
- Remove a surface violently
Tear down
- Demolish
Tear into
- Criticise strongly or angrily
Tear off
- Remove part of a form or letter using your hands, not scissors
- Leave at high speed
- Remove with force
Tear up
- Rip into pieces
- Destroy
Tee (3)
Tee off
- Start or launch an event
- Place a golf ball on a short plastic or wooden stick before hitting it at the start of a hole.
- Annoy someone
Tee off on
- Criticise
Tee up
- Place a golf ball on a short plastic or wooden stick before hitting it at the start of a hole.
- Make preparations before starting or launching something
Tell (3)
Tell apart
- See a difference between two things
Tell off
- Chide; talk angrily to someone about something they've done wrong.
Tell on
- Report someone to an authority
Think (3)
Think over
- Consider something carefully
Think through
- Consider all the possibilities and outcomes of a situation
Think up
- Create or invent something, especially when lying
Throw (3)
Throw away
- Discard something when no longer needed
Throw out
- Get rid of
Throw up
- Vomit
Tick (4)
Tick away
- Pass (of time)
Tick by
- Pass (of time)
Tick off
- Annoy
- Scold
- Put a mark on an item in a list when it has been dealt with
Tick over
- Continue working, but without improving
- Operate but without moving (engines)
Tide (1)
Tide over
- Use something carefully so as not to finish it
Tidy (1)
Tidy up
- Put things in the correct place in a room
Tie (5)
Tie back
- Fasten or secure so that it doesn't obstruct
Tie down
- Secure something to prevent it moving
- Remove or restrict freedom
- Stop people (often police or military) going where they are needed
Tie in
- Agree, be connected or support
Tie in with
- Occur at the same time
Tie up
- Tie or fasten something securely
- Stop someone doing something
- Fasten
- Block a road, etc
Tighten (1)
Tighten up
- Make something more secure or function better
Tip (2)
Tip off
- Secretly inform the police or authorities
Tip over
- Spill, make something fall on its side
Tire (2)
Tire of
- Get bored of something
Tire out
- Make someone exhausted
Toddle (1)
Toddle off
- Leave, go home
Tone (1)
Tone down
- Make something sound more moderate
Tool (1)
Tool up
- Provide equipment
- Arm yourself or somebody
Top (3)
Top off
- Finish something in a special way
Top out
- Stop increasing, reach the highest point
Top up
- Refill something that isn't empty yet
Touch (6)
Touch down
- Land (planes)
Touch for
- Borrow money
Touch off
- Cause a problem to occur
Touch on
- Mention
Touch up
- Improve the appearance of something
- Touch someone in a sexual way
Touch upon
- Mention
Toy (3)
Toy at
- Pretend to think about or think about in a casual way
Toy over
- Think about something
Toy with
- Not eat much of a meal
- Consider something, but not very seriously
- Move or play with something to occupy your hands
Track (1)
Track down
- Find after a long search
Trade (6)
Trade down
- Sell something and replace it with something cheaper
Trade in
- Exchange something old as part of the price of something new
- Leave your wife or husband to marry someone younger
Trade off
- Bargain, make a deal or compromise
- Accept something you don't really want to get something you do want
Trade on
- Exploit, use something to your advantage
Trade up
- Buy larger or more expensive items
- Leave your wife or husband and marry someone better looking, richer, etc
Trade upon
- Exploit, use to your advantage
Trickle (1)
Trickle down
- Pass benefits from economic expansion through the economy to the less fortunate
Trip (2)
Trip over
- Fall
- Fall because you hit an obstacle
Trip up
- Make a mistake
Trot (1)
Trot out
- Make a statement (meant negatively)
Trump (1)
Trump up
- Charge or accuse someone falsely
Try (6)
Try back
- Phone back
Try for
- Make an attempt to get something
Try it on
- Provoke someone by being annoying or behaving badly
- 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
- Test something to see if you like it or want to buy it
Try out for
- Be tested for a sports team
Tuck (4)
Tuck away
- Put something in a safe place
- Eat a lot
Tuck in
- Tidy the ends of items of clothing by placing them inside something
- Start eating enthusiastically
- Arrange the sheets, duvet or blankets to make someone, usually a child, comfortable in bed
Tuck into
- Start eating something
Tuck up
- Arrange the sheets, duvet or blankets to make someone, usually a child, comfortable in bed
Tune (4)
Tune in
- Watch or listen to a TV or radio show
Tune in to
- Watch or listen to a TV or radio programme
Tune out
- Ignore, not pay attention
Tune up
- Improve the performance of a machine or engine
- Tune a musical instrument before playing
Turn (11)
Turn against
- Stop liking and start disliking
Turn away
- Not allow someone to enter a place
Turn down
- Reduce volume, temperature, etc.
- Reject an offer, invitation, etc.
Turn in
- Go to bed
Turn into
- Become
Turn off
- Stop a machine
Turn on
- Cause someone to feel attraction or pleasure
- Start a machine
- Attack
Turn out
- Produce
- Produce an unexpected result
- Stop a light
- Attend
Turn over
- Give to the authorities
Turn to
- Try to get help
- Take up a habit
Turn up
- Appear
- Increase volume, temperature, etc.
Type (1)
Type up
- Type a finished version
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'U'
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Use (1)
Use up
- Finish or consume all of something
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'V'
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Vacuum (1)
Vacuum up
- Consume
Veg (1)
Veg out
- Relax, do nothing
Venture (1)
Venture forth
- Leave somewhere safe or comfortable
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'W'
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Wade (3)
Wade in
- Start something or get involved, often without thinking or to forcefully
- Attack
Wade into
- Become embroiled or involved in a situation, without thinking or planning usually
Wade through
- Get to the end of something with difficulty
Wait (9)
Wait about
- Wait somewhere doing nothing
Wait around
- Wait somewhere doing nothing
Wait behind
- Stay somewhere after other people have left
Wait in
- Stay at home because someone is going to visit
Wait on
- Serve people in a restaurant
- Sell goods in a shop
- Provide someone with everything they need or want
- Wait for a result before being able to make a decision
Wait out
- Wait till something has finished, usually something unpleasant
Wait up
- Not go to bed because you are waiting
Wait up!
- Stop (imperative)
Wait upon
- Provide someone with what they require
- Wait for a result before being able to make a decision
Wake (1)
Wake up
- Stop sleeping
Walk (10)
Walk away from
- Leave something you don't like
Walk away with
- Win easily
Walk in on
- Enter somewhere unexpectedly and see something
Walk into
- Get work without effort
- Be unaware of the presence of something and either enter it (a trap) or bump into it (an obstruction)
Walk off
- Go for a walk to reduce the effects of an illness or bad feeling
Walk off with
- Win easily
- Take something without permission or steal
Walk on
- Continue walking
Walk out
- Leave work because of a dispute with the management
- Leave a place angrily or because you are not satisfied
Walk out on
- Leave somebody angrily
Walk up
- Go to someone
Want (1)
Want out
- Want to leave a relationship or arrangement
Warm (1)
Warm up
- Do exercises before a sport
Wash (5)
Wash away
- When floods or waves completely remove a structure, building, etc.
Wash down
- Drink in order to swallow something solid
Wash out
- Rain so heavily that an event has to be cancelled
Wash over
- Suddenly experience a strong emotion
Wash up
- Clean everything used to prepare food and eat it
- When something in the sea or river is left on the shore or bank
Watch (3)
Watch out
- Be careful (imperative)
Watch out for
- Be careful of something
Watch over
- Keep an eye on something or someone to check that there's no trouble
Water (1)
Water down
- Make something weaker and less effective
Wean (1)
Wean off
- Slowly stop a dependency on something
Wear (4)
Wear away
- Erode, remove gradually
Wear down
- Make something weaker
Wear off
- Stop having an effect
Wear out
- Use something until it stops working
Weed (1)
Weed out
- Remove, get rid of
Weigh (2)
Weigh in
- Have a certain weight (in sports like boxing)
- Enter an argument forcefully
Weigh up
- Assess
While (1)
While away
- Spend time doing something because you have nothing better to do
Whip (3)
Whip out
- Remove quickly
Whip through
- Do something quickly
Whip up
- Make food quickly
- Mix liquid food quickly to make it thick and creamy
- Make people feel more strongly about something
Whisk (1)
Whisk away
- Take to another place quickly
White (1)
White out
- Use correction fluid to cover a mistake in a written text
Wig (1)
Wig out
- Become excited and lose control
Wiggle (2)
Wiggle out
- Avoid doing
Wiggle out of
- Avoid doing something
Wimp (1)
Wimp out
- Not be brave enough to do something
Wind (3)
Wind down
- Relax
- Slowly close a business or organisation
Wind on
- Forward a film or tape to a certain point
Wind up
- Close a company because it's unprofitable
- Tighten the spring in a watch or clock to make it work
- Irritate someone or increase their stress level, especially if done deliberately
Winkle (1)
Winkle out
- Find or get something that takes a great deal of effort
Wipe (1)
Wipe out
- Make someone very tired
- Kill all of a population, make extinct
Wire (1)
Wire up
- Make electrical connections
Wise (1)
Wise up
- Stop being stupid
Word (2)
Word up
- Give someone information, advice
Word up!
- A phrase that was used a greeting
Work (3)
Work off
- Exercise to remove stress or weight
Work on
- Improve or develop
Work out
- End nicely
- Find the answer or solution
Wrap (1)
Wrap up
- Cover in paper
- Dress warmly
- Finish
Wriggle (1)
Wriggle out of
- Avoid doing something in a way other people don't like
Write (5)
Write down
- Make notes
Write in
- Send a letter to a TV station, etc.
Write off
- Destroy a car in an accident
Write out
- Write something completely
Write up
- Make complete written version
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'Y'
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Yack (1)
Yack on
- Talk continuously, especially if it is an annoying way
Yammer (1)
Yammer on
- Talk continuously, especially if it is an annoying way
Yield (1)
Yield to
- Surrender
 
List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'Z'
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Zero (2)
Zero in on
- Direct or focus attention on
- Head for, move towards
Zero out
- Cut off funding for a project
- Reduce to zero, cancel, remove
Zip (3)
Zip around
- Move quickly
Zip by
- Pass quickly
Zip up
- Keep quiet
Zone (3)
Zone in
- Pay attention after not doing so
Zone in on
- Pay attention after not doing so
Zone out
- Not pay attention
- Dissociate yourself from a situation
Zonk (1)
Zonk out
- Fall asleep
Zoom (4)
Zoom in
- Focus more closely
Zoom in on
- Focus more closely
Zoom off
- Go somewhere quickly
Zoom out
- Focus less closely