A- Act on: Act decisively on the basis of information received or deduced
- Act on: Take action against something
- Act on: Affect something
- Act out: Perform a scene from a play, a charade or an exercise
- Act out: Perform a fantasy in reality
- Act out: Express one’s feelings through disruptive actions
- Act out: Express ideas or desires through actions rather than words
- Act up: Misbehave; cause trouble
- Act up to: Equal in action; fulfill in practice
- Act upon: Take action on the basis of information received or deduced
- Answer back: Reply impertinently; to talk back
- Answer back: Reply to a question at a later time
- Answer for: Be held responsible for; to take the blame for something
- Answer for: Guarantee
- Answer for: Vouch for (someone); to attest to the character of (someone)
- Answer to: Be accountable or responsible to
- Answer to: Justify oneself to (someone)
- Answer to: Respond to (a name); to treat as one’s own name
- Ask after: Enquire about someone’s health, how life is going.
- Ask around (round): Enquire of different people about something
- Ask for: Request
- Ask for: Increase the likelihood of something by persisting in some action; to invite
- Ask in: Invite someone to enter one’s house
- Ask out: Invite somebody, especially on a date
- Ask round: Invite someone to your house
- Ask over: Invite them to come from their house to your house
B- Back down: Take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously has or has planned to
- Back into: Rely upon another team’s loss in order to advance to the post-season
- Back off: Move backwards away from something
- Back off: Become less aggressive, particularly when one had appeared committed to act
- Back off: Lower the setting of
- Back onto: Reverse a vehicle onto something
- Back onto: Overlook something from the rear
- Back out: Reverse a vehicle from a confined space
- Back out: Withdraw from something one has agreed to do
- Back out: Undo a change
- Back up: Move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so
- Back up: Move a vehicle backward
- Back up: Undo one’s actions
- Back up: Reconsider one’s thoughts
- Back up: Copy (data) as a security measure
- Back up: Provide support or the promise of support
- Back up: Halt the flow or movement of something
- Be above: Be too good, classy or mature
- to do something; to disdain
- Be above: Outrank
- Be along: Arrive
- Be around: Be alive, existent, or present
- Be around: Be near; to socialize with
- Be cut out for: Be suitable, have the necessary qualities
- Be down: Be depressed
- Be down to: Be reduced or less
- Be down on: Have negative feelings toward someone
- Be down with: Be ill
- Be fed up: Be bored, upset or sick of something
- Be in for: Be able to expect or anticipate, generally said of something unpleasant
- Be in for: Be incarcerated for
- Be in on: Be a party to a secret shared by a small group of people
- Be on about: Talk about; mean, intend
- Be on to: Figure out; to realize the truth
- Be out for: Seek or pursue, especially to determinedly pursue something to one’s own benefit
- Be there for: Be available to provide comfort and support for someone, especially in a period of difficulty
- Be snowed under: Have too much work
- Be taken aback: Be shocked or surprised
- Be taken with: Like something or someone very much
- Be up for: To want to do something
- Be up to: Do or be involved in doing
- Be with: Have sex with
- Be with: Date or be boyfriend/girlfriend with
- Be with: Agree with someone
- Be with: Understand someone’s point or intention
- Beat down: Strike with great force
- Beat down: Haggle with someone to sell at a lower price
- Beat off: Waste time
- Beat out: Sound a rhythm on a percussion instrument such as a drum
- Beat out: Extinguish
- Beat out: Defeat by a narrow margin
- Beat up: Give a severe beating to, to assault violently hitting the victim repeatedly
- Beat up: Feel badly guilty and accuse oneself over something
- Blow away: Cause to go away by blowing, or by wind
- Blow away: Disperse or to depart on currents of air
- Blow away: Kill (someone) by shooting them
- Blow away: Flabbergast; to impress greatly
- Blow down: Knock over with an air current, most often wind
- Blow off: Let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose
- Blow off: Shirk or disregard
- Blow off: Forcibly disconnect something by use of a firearm or explosive device
- Blow out: Extinguish something, especially a flame
- Blow out: Deflate quickly on being punctured
- Blow out: Be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapour
- Blow over: Blow on something causing it to topple
- Blow over: Be knocked down by wind
- Blow over: Pass naturally; to go away; to settle or calm down
- Blow past: Easily overcome or go around a safeguard or limit
- Blow up: Explode or be destroyed by explosion
- Blow up: Cause (something or someone) to explode
- Blow up: Inflate or fill with air
- Blow up: Enlarge or zoom in
- Blow up: Suddenly get very angry
- Break away: Leave suddenly
- Break away: Become separated, literally or figuratively
- Break down: Fail, to cease to function
- Break down: Render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally
- Break down: Render or to become weak and ineffective
- Break down: Decay, to decompose
- Break down: Divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of
- Break down: Digest
- Break even: Neither gain nor lose money
- Break even: Stay the same; to neither advance nor regress
- Break in: Enter a place by force or illicit means
- Break in: Cause to function more naturally through use or wear
- Break off: End a relationship.
- Break off: To stop (temporarily)
- Break off: To become separate (from something)
- Break into: Enter illegally or by force, especially in order to commit a crime
- Break into: Open or begin to use
- Break into: Successfully enter a profession or business
- Break into: Begin suddenly
- Break out: Escape, especially forcefully or defiantly
- Break out: Begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition
- Break through: To break a way through (sth solid)
- Break through: To make new and important discoveries
- Break up: Break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart
- Break up: End a relationship
- Break up: Dissolve; to part
- Break up: Break or separate into pieces
- Break up: Stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting
- Bring about: Cause to take place
- Bring about: Accomplish, achieve
- Bring along: Bring someone or something to certain place.
- Bring around: Persuade or convince someone.
- Bring around: Bring something with you when you visit.
- Bring around: Get someone talking about something.
- Bring back: Fetch something
- Bring back: Cause someone to remember something from the past
- Bring back: Reenact an old rule or law
- Bring down: Make a legitimate rulership lose their position of power
- Bring down: Reduce
- Bring down: Make something fall to the ground
- Bring down: Make someone feel bad emotionally
- Bring forth: Produce, bear as fruit
- Bring forth: Give birth
- Bring forth: Create, generate, bring into existence
- Bring forth: Display, produce, bring out for display
- Bring forward: Make something happen earlier than originally planned
- Bring in: Move something indoors
- Bring off: Succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult
- Bring out: Elicit, evoke, or emphasize a particular quality
- Bring out: Place (something new for public sale) on the market; roll out
- Bring out: Make a shy person more confident
- Bring out: Cause a visible symptom such as spots or a rash
- Bring round: Bring something when coming
- Bring round: Resuscitate; to cause to regain consciousness
- Bring round: Change someone’s opinion or point of view
- Bring to: Restore consciousness
- Bring to: Make something equal to a different amount
- Bring up: Mention
- Bring up: Raise
- Bring up: Uncover, to bring from obscurity
- Bring up: Turn on power or start, as of a machine
- Bring up: Vomit
C- Call away: Summon; to cause to depart
- Call down: Pray for; to request from God
- Call for: Shout out in order to summon (a person)
- Call for: Ask for in a loud voice
- Call for: Request, demand
- Call for: Necessitate, demand
- Call for: Stop at a place and ask for (someone)
- Call in: Communicate with a base etc, by telephone
- Call in: Summon someone, especially for help or advice
- Call off: Recall; to cancel or call a halt to
- Call on: Visit (a person); to pay a call to
- Call on: Select (a student in a classroom, etc.) to provide an answer
- Call on: Request or ask something of (a person); to select for a task
- Call on: Have recourse to; to summon up
- Call on: Correct; to point out an error or untruth
- Call out: Specify, especially in detail
- Call out: Order into service; to summon into service
- Call out: Challenge; denounce; point out; charge
- Carry off: Transport away
- Carry off: Act convincingly; to succeed at giving the impression of (e.g.) knowledge, confidence, or familiarity
- Carry off: Cause death
- Carry on: Continue or proceed as before
- Carry on: Take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, rather than check it
- Carry on: Have or maintain
- Carry on: Act or behave; especially to misbehave so as to attract attention
- Carry on: Have an illicit sexual relationship
- Carry out: Hold while moving it out
- Carry out: Fulfill
- Carry over: Transfer (something) to a later point in time
- Check out: Confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility when leaving
- Check out: Withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded
- Check out: Record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something therefrom, as from a library or shop
- Check out: Examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate
- Check out: Prove (after an investigation) to be the case / in order
- Check up: Verify through brief investigation or examination
- Check up on: Examine or inspect something in order to determine its condition
- Come about: Come to pass; to develop; to occur; to take place; to happen
- Come across: Give an appearance or impression; to project a certain image
- Come across: Find, usually by accident
- Come after: Pursue, follow
- Come after: Follow, to succeed, to be the successor of
- Come along: Accompany
- Come along: Progress; to make progress
- Come apart: Break, separate
- Come around: Change one’s mind
- Come at: Get to, especially with effort or difficulty
- Come at: Attack, to harass
- Come at: Accept (a situation); to agree to do; to try
- Come away: Become separated from something away
- Come away: Distance oneself (from)
- Come back: Return to one’s possession, especially of memories
- Come back: Return to a former state, usually a desirable one
- ByCome back: Retort
- Come before: Appear publicly in front of someone superior
- Come before: Be of greater importance (than)
- Come before: Be judged, decided or discussed by authority
- Come before: Precede
- Come between: Affect negatively or cause discord between (someone) and another person
- Come by: Obtain; to get, especially by chance or involuntarily
- Come by: Come near to; to pass; to visit
- Come down: Descend, fall down, collapse
- Come down: Be demolished
- Come down: Decrease
- Come down: Reach a decision
- Come down: Be passed through time
- Come down: Return from an elevated state of consciousness or emotion
- Come down on: Punish
- Come down upon: Criticise, reprimand severely
- Come down to: Reach by moving down or reducing
- Come down to: Depend upon, basically, ultimately or in essence
- Come down with: Contract or get; to show symptoms of an illness
- Come for: Search for something or someone, in order to catch them/it
- Come forth: Move forward and into view, to emerge, to appear
- Come from: Have as one’s birthplace or nationality
- Come in: Enter
- Come in: Arrive
- Come in: Become relevant, applicable or useful
- Come in: Become available
- Come in: Have a strong enough signal to be able to be received well
- Come in: Join or enter; to begin playing with a group
- Come in: Begin transmitting
- Come in: Function in the indicated manner
- Come in: Finish a race or similar competition in a particular position
- Come in for: Be subjected to
- Come into: Inherit (money)
- Come into: Be a factor in
- Come off: Have some success, to succeed
- Come off: Appear; to seem; to project a certain quality
- Come on: Show sexual or relational interest through words or sometimes actions
- Come on: Appear on a television broadcast
- Come on: Progress, to develop
- Come on: Encounter, discover; to come upon.
- Come on: Make a romantic or sexual advance to; to hit on
- Come on: Start to
- Come on: Be discovered, be revealed
- Come on: Be published, be issued
- Come on: End up or result
- Come on: Come out of the closet
- Come on: Be deducted from
- Come on: Leave (out of), exit from
- Come on: Express one’s opinion openly
- Come out in: Be afflicted by
- Come out in: Say something unexpected
- Come out of: To develop from something
- Come out with: Say something publicly and unexpectedly
- Come out with: Make something available/to be produced or published
- Come over: Affect
- Come round: Change one’s opinion to a prevailing one
- Come round: Recover consciousness, to come to
- Come round: Visit someone’s home or other regular place
- Come through: Survive, to endure
- Come through: Succeed
- Come through: Not to let somebody down, keep one’s promise
- Come through with: Provide something needed
- Come to: Recover consciousness after fainting etc.
- Come to: Total; to amount to
- Come to: Devote attention to in due course; to come around to
- Come to: Befall; to affect; to happen to; to come upon
- Come to: Regard or specify, as narrowing a field of choices by category
- Come together: Arrive at a destination with someone after having travelled there with each other
- Come under: Come underneath (something)
- Come under: Be included or classified under
- Come under: Be subjected to, be under the auspices of
- Come up: Come towards, to approach
- Come up: Emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly
- Come up: Come to attention, present itself; to arrive or appear
- Come up: Appear
- Come up: Draw near in time
- Come up: Rise (above the horizon)
- Come up: Begin to feel the effects of a recreational drug
- Come up to: Approach
- Come up with: Invent, create, or think of.
- Come upon: Come across; to encounter; to stumble upon; to discover or find
- Come upon: Befall; to affect; to happen to
- Come with: Join and come along
- Crack down: Enforce more stringently or more thoroughly
- Crack down on: Enforce laws or punish (something) more vigilantly
- Crack on: Continue at a (normally uninteresting) task
- Crack on: Continue apace
- Crack up: Laugh heartily
- Crack up: Cause to laugh heartily
- Crack up: Become insane; to suffer a mental break down
- Crack up: Cry up; to extol
- Crack out: Produce in large volumes mechanically or as if by machine
- Cut back: Reduce spending
- Cut back: Reduce consumption
- Cut down: Bring down by cutting
- Cut down: Reduce the amount of something
- Cut off: Stop providing funds to someone
- Cut off: End abruptly
- Cut off: Interrupt (someone speaking)
- Cut off: Turn off or switch off (an electrical device)
- Cut out: Refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop/cease (doing something)
- Cut out: Remove, omit
- Cut out: Separate from a herd
- Cut out: Stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected
- Cut out: Leave suddenly
- Cut out: Arrange
- Cut through: Deal with an issue quickly
- Cut through: Take a shortcut through
- Cut up: Cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections
- Cut up: Lacerate; wound by multiple lacerations; injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting
- Cut up: Severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism
- Cut up: Comprise a particular selection of runners
F- Fall about: Laugh so much that one’s entire body moves somewhat uncontrollably
- Fall apart: Disintegrate
- Fall apart: Be emotionally in crisis
- Fall away: Cease to support a person or cause
- Fall behind: Be late (for a regular event)
- Fall behind: Be progressively below average in performance
- Fall down: Fall to the ground, to collapse
- Fall down: Fail
- Fall for: Be fooled; to walk into a trap or respond to a scam or trick
- Fall for: Fall in love with someone
- Fall in: Collapse inwards
- Fall in: Come to an end; to terminate; to lapse
- Fall in with: Join (a group of people)
- Fall in with: Accept
- Fall into: Go into something by falling
- Fall into: Enter something without having planned it
- Fall into: Be classified as; to fall under
- Fall off: Become detached or to drop from
- Fall off: Diminish in size, value etc.
- Fall on: Experience; to suffer; to fall upon
- Fall on: Be assigned to; to acquire a new responsibility, duty or burden
- Fall on: Occur on a particular day
- Fall out: Come out of something by falling
- Fall out: Cease to be on friendly terms
- Fall out: Leave one’s current location to report for duty at a new location
- Fall through: Be unsuccessful, abort, come to nothing/naught; to be cancelled; not to proceed
- Fall under: Belong to for purposes of categorization
- Fall upon: Fall on; to experience; to suffer
- Fill in: Fill; to replace material that is absent or has been removed
- Fill in: Inform somebody, especially to supply someone missing or missed information
- Fill in: Substitute for somebody or something
- Fill in: Beat up; to physically assault
- Fill out: Complete a form or questionnaire with requested information
- Fill out: Have one’s physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight
- Fill up: Fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel
- Fill up: Annoy, or displease, by taunting, or by excessive nagging
- Fill up: Satisfy someone’s hunger
- Get about: Be mobile, physically active
G- Get about: Become widely known
- Get about: Visit a variety of different places
- Get across: Cross; to move from one side (of something) to the other, literally or figuratively
- Get across: Make an idea evident; to successfully explain a thought or feeling; put over
- Get after: Move into action in pursuit of something
- Get after: Move into action in attempt to catch or defeat another
- Get after: Attempt to convince another to move into action
- Get ahead: Progress
- Get ahead of: Move in front of
- Get along: Interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble
- Get along: Survive; to do well enough
- Get along with: Have a good relationship with someone
- Get along with: Deal with, handle
- Get around: Move to the other side of an obstruction
- Get around: Come around something
- Get around: Avoid or bypass an obstacle
- Get around: Circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore
- Get around: Transport oneself from place to place
- Get around: Be sexually promiscuous
- Get around to: Eventually begin or return to some procrastinated task
- Get at: Manage to gain access to
- Get at: Understand or ascertain by investigation
- Get at: Mean, signify
- Get at: Attack verbally or physically; to annoy, bother
- Get at: Persuade by intimidation, to tamper with
- Get at: Contact someone
- Get away: Move away (from)
- Get away: Avoid capture; to escape (from)
- Get away: Take a break from one’s present circumstances
- Get away: Start moving; to depart
- Get away: Slip from one’s control
- Get away from: Start to talk about something that is not relevant to the discussion
- Get away with: Eescape punishment for
- Get back: Return to where one came from
- Get back: Retrieve, to have an item returned
- Get back: Do something to hurt or harm someone who has hurt or harmed you
- Get back at: Retaliate against; to take revenge on
- Get back to: Return contact with
- Get behind: Support
- Get behind with: Be late paying instalments for something
- Get by: Subsist; to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimal level
- Get down: Bring or come down; descend by
- Get down: Depress; discourage; fatigue
- Get down: Swallow
- Get down: Relax and enjoy oneself completely; be uninhibited in one’s enjoyment
- Get down: Duck or take cover, usually to avoid harm
- Get down: Leave the table after dining
- Get down: Record in writing
- Get down on: Criticise
- Get down to: Start working seriously
- Get in: Get into or inside something, literally or figuratively
- Get in: Enter a place; to gain access
- Get in: Secure membership at a selective school
- Get in: Be elected to some office
- Get in with: Become involved or associated with
- Get into: Move into an object, such that one ends up inside it
- Get into: Reach into an object
- Get into: Become involved in a discussion, issue, or activity
- Get into: Enter an unfavourable state
- Get into: Make behave uncharacteristically
- Get it: Be punished or scolded
- Get it on: Have sex
- Get it on: Engage in a fight
- Get it on: Hurry up; to get a move on
- Get it together: To be well-organized and prepared
- Get it over with: Do or finish, especially said of something unpleasant
- Get it up: Achieve a penile erection
- Get off: Move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it
- Get off: Move (something) from being on top of (something else) to not being on top of it
- Get off: Disembark, especially from mass transportation
- Get off: Stop (doing something), to desist from (doing something)
- Get off: Stop using a piece of equipment, such as a telephone or computer
- Get off: Complete a shift or a day’s work
- Get off: Stop touching or interfering with something or someone
- Get off: Excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner
- Get off: Experience an orgasm or other sexual pleasure
- Get off: Kiss; to smooch
- Get off: Escape (with usually only mild consequences)
- Get off: Fall asleep
- Get off: Behave in an presumptuous, rude, or intrusive manner
- Get off on: Be excited or aroused by; to derive pleasure from
- Get off on: Have a sexual encounter with
- Get on: Board or mount (something), especially a vehicle
- Get on: Be successful
- Get on: Progress (with)
- Get on: Become late
- Get on: Become old
- Get on: Gave a good relationship
- Get on: Commence
- Get on to: Contact (someone) in order to raise or discuss a certain matter
- Get on to: Progress to; to start working on
- Get on for: Be near a time
- Get on with: Proceed with; to begin or continue, especially after an interruption
- Get on with: Have a good relationship with
- Get onto: Move onto an object, especially one on which it is possible to stand
- Get onto: Contact a person or organisation about a particular matter
- Get onto: Connect, especially to the Internet or a network
- Get onto: Scold someone
- Get onto: Introduce someone to something
- Get out: Leave or escape
- Get out: Come out of a situation ; to escape a fate
- Get out: Help someone leave
- Get out: Leave a vehicle such as a car
- Get out: Become known
- Get out: Spend free time out of the house
- Get out: Publish something, or make a product available
- Get out: Say something with difficulty
- Get out: Clean something. To eliminate dirt or stains
- Get out of: Leave, exit, or become free of
- Get out of: Circumvent some obligation entirely
- Get out of: Leave or exit a place
- Get over: Overcome
- Get over: Recover (from)
- Get over: Forget and move on
- Get over: Successfully communicate; to get across
- Get over with: Do something quickly and hastily; without procrastination
- Get rid of: Dispose (of); to remove; to abolish; to lose
- Get stuck in: Dedicate a large amount of effort towards
- Get stuck into: Start eating
- Get stuck into: Criticise someone; tell off; to get angry at; to attack
- Get taken in: Be fooled; to fall for
- Get taken in: Be unofficially fostered
- Get through: Overcome; to endure
- Get through: Complete; to finish
- Get through: Be made successfully
- Get through to: Make someone understand
- Get through to: Reach a stage in a competition
- Get to: Reach, arrive at
- Get to: Have an opportunity to or be allowed to
- Get to: Affect adversely; to upset or annoy
- Get to: Track down and intimidate
- Get together: Meet socially
- Get up: Move in an upwards direction; to ascend or climb
- Get up: Rise from one’s bed
- Get up: Move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up
- Get up: Materialise; to grow stronger
- Get up: Bring together, amass
- Get up: Gather or grow larger by accretion
- Get up: Criticise
- Get up: Dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly
- Get up to: Do something, especially something that you should not do
- Get used: Become accustomed to something; to acclimate; to adjust
- Get with: Impregnate
- Get with: Align oneself with
- Give away: Make a gift of (something)
- Give away: Formally hand over a bride to the bridegroom; often by her father
- Give away: Unintentionally reveal a secret, or expose someone
- Give away: Concede an advantage in weight, time, height etc.
- Give back: Return, restore
- Give back: Contribute money, goods or, especially, services for charitable purposes, as if in return for one’s own success
- Give forth: Emit or release something
- Give forth: Give off an emanation
- Give in: Collapse or fall
- Give in: Relent, yield, surrender or admit defeat
- Give in to: Allow a feeling or desire to control you
- Give in to: Criticise harshly or punish someone for something.
- Give it up for/to: Applaud.
- Give of oneself: Devote oneself unselfishly to a task, especially to give time and energy
- Give off: Emit; to produce and send forth
- Give out: Issue; to distribute
- Give out: Break down, get out of order, fail
- Give out: Complain, sulk, chastise
- Give over: Entrust (something) to another
- Give over: Devote or resign to a particular purpose or activity
- Give over: Give up; abandon; desert; stop
- Give up: Surrender (someone or something)
- Give up: Stop or quit (an activity, etc)
- Give up: Relinquish (something)
- Give up: Lose hope concerning (someone or something)
- Give up: Abandon (someone or something)
- Give up: Admit defeat, to capitulate
- Give up on: Lose faith in or stop believing in something or someone.
- Give up on: Stop feeling hope
- Give way: Yield to persistent persuasion
- Give way: Collapse or break under physical stresses
- Give way: Give precedence to other road users
- Give way to: Be replaced by something better, cheaper, more modern, etc
- Give way to: Allow a vehicle to pass in front.
- Give way to: Surrender to strong emotions
- Give yourself up: Surrender to the police or authorities
- Go about: Deal with something
- Go about: Circulate
- Go across: Move to another side or place
- Go after: Pursue in attempt to catch another
- Go after: Pursue an object or a goal
- Go against: Violate; to breach; to break
- Go against: Be unfavourable to someone
- Go against: Be contrary to a trend, feeling or principle
- Go against: Oppose; to resist
- Go ahead: To begin
- Go ahead with: To continue with something
- Go all out: Reserve nothing; to put forth all possible effort or resources
- Go along: Participate, cooperate, or conform
- Go around: Move or spread from person to person
- Go around: Share with everyone
- Go at: Try to solve a problem a specific way; to undertake a task
- Go away: Depart or leave a place
- Go away: Travel somewhere, especially on holiday or vacation
- Go away: Become invisible, vanish or disappear
- Go back: Abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something
- Go before: To exist or happen in an earlier time
- Go below: Go below deck on a ship; to leave the top deck of a ship
- Go by: Pass or go past without much interaction
- Go by: Be called, to use as a name
- Go by: Follow; to assume as true for the purposes of making a decision, taking an action, etc.
- Go down: Descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one
- Go down: Disappear below the horizon; to set
- Go down: Decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one
- Go down: Fall (down), fall to the floor
- Go down: Be received or accepted
- Go down: Be recorded or remembered (as)
- Go down: Take place, happen
- Go down: perform oral sex
- Go down: Stop functioning, to go offline
- Go down with: To become ill with a particular illness
- Go for: Try for, to attempt to reach
- Go for: Undertake (an action)
- Go for: Attack
- Go for: Develop a strong interest in, especially in a sudden manner; to be infatuated with
- Go for: Favor, accept
- Go for: Apply equally to
- Go for it: Put maximum effort into achieving something
- Go for it: Decide to do something; especially after a period of hesitation
- Go forward: Move clocks ahead
- Go forward: Progress
- Go in: Be obscured by clouds
- Go in for: To take an exam or enter a competition
- Go in for: Like, have an interest in
- Go in for: Make a career choice
- Go in with: Join, enter
- Go into: Get involved in; to investigate or explore
- Go into: Divide exactly; to be a factor of
- Go off: Explode
- Go off: Fire, especially accidentally
- Go off: Explode metaphorically; to become very angry
- Go off: Begin clanging or making noise
- Go off: Depart; to leave
- Go off: Like less
- Go off with: Elope, run away with someone
- Go off with: Steal
- Go on: Continue in extent
- Go on: Continue an action
- Go on to: Proceed
- Go on about: Talk about a subject frequently or at great length
- Go on: Use and adopt (information) in order to understand an issue, make a decision, etc.
- Go on: Happen (occur)
- Go on at: Keep criticizing somebody or telling them what to do, etc:
- Go on with: Continue doing.
- Go out: Leave, especially a building
- Go out: Leave one’s abode to go to public places
- Go out: Be eliminated from a competition
- Go out: Be turned off or extinguished
- Go out: Discard or meld all the cards in one’s hand
- Go out: Become out of fashion
- Go out: Have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates
- Go out: Fail
- Go out: Spend the last moments of a show (while playing something)
- Go out for: Become a candidate, apply for something
- Go out to: Feel sympathy with someone
- Go over: Look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze
- Go over: Create a response or impression
- Go over to: Go on a journey
- Go over to: Change to something different
- Go so far as: Reach an unexpected extent in doing something
- Go past: Pass without stopping
- Go round: Be or have enough of something
- Go round: Circulate
- Go round: Visit
- Go through: Travel from one end of something to the other
- Go through: Examine or scrutinize (a number or series of things), especially in a regular order
- Go through: Undergo, suffer, experience
- Go through: Wear out (clothing etc. )
- Go through: Progress to the next stage of something
- Go through: Reach an intended destination after passing through some process
- Go through with: Carry out (something planned or promised)
- Go to: Attend an event or a sight
- Go to: Attend classes at a school as a student
- Go to: Tend to support
- Go together: Harmonize or be compatible
- Go towards: Be a contribution to
- Go under: Descend into a body of water; to founder
- Go under: Collapse or fail, e.g. by going bankrupt
- Go under: Be named; to call oneself
- Go up: Be built or erected
- Go up: Rise or increase in price, cost, or value
- Go up: Be consumed by fire
- Go up: Forget lines or blocks during public performance
- Go up for:Of the fielding side, to appeal for the batsman or batswoman to be out
- Go with: Choose or accept (a suggestion)
- Go with: Correspond or fit well with, to match
- Go without: Be deprived of
H- Hang about: Stay, linger or loiter
- Hang about: Spend time or be friends
- Hang on: Wait a moment (usually imperative)
- Hang on: Hold, grasp, or grip
- Hang on: Keep; to store something for someone
- Hang on: Pay close attention
- Hang on: Continually believe in something; to have faith in
- Hang on: Persevere
- Hang out: Spend time doing nothing in particular
- Hang out: Be unyielding; to hold out
- Hang over: Be threatening, to be imminent
- Hang together: Be self-consistent
- Hang up: Put up to hang
- Hang up: Terminate a telephone call
- Hold back: Act with reserve; to contain one’s full measure or power
- Hold back: Contain; stop
- Hold back: Delay the progress of, especially in school
- Hold down: Restrain; to check
- Hold down: Continue, to hold and to manage well
- Hold in: Restrain oneself
- Hold off: Delay someone or something temporarily; to keep at bay
- Hold off: Delay commencing
- Hold off: Delay commencing an action
- Hold on: Grasp or grip firmly
- Hold on: Keep; to store something for someone
- Hold on: Wait a short time
- Hold on: Remain loyal
- Hold out: Wait, or refuse in hopes of getting something better
- Hold out: Survive, endure
- Hold out: Withhold something
- Hold out: Set something aside or save it for later
- Hold over: Save, delay
- Hold up: Wait or delay
- Hold up: Impede; detain
- Hold up: Support or lift
- Hold up: Fulfill / fulfill or complete one’s part of an agreement
- Hold up: Rob at gunpoint
- Hold back: Act with reserve; to contain one’s full measure or power
- Hold back: Contain; stop
- Hold back: Delay the progress of, especially in school
- Hold down: Restrain; to check
- Hold down: Continue, to hold and to manage well
- Hold in: Restrain oneself
- Hold off: Delay someone or something temporarily; to keep at bay
- Hold off: Delay commencing
- Hold off: Delay commencing an action
- Hold on: Grasp or grip firmly
- Hold on: Keep; to store something for someone
- Hold on: Wait a short time
- Hold on: Remain loyal
- Hold out: Wait, or refuse in hopes of getting something better
- Hold out: Survive, endure
- Hold out: Withhold something
- Hold out: Set something aside or save it for later
- Hold over: Save, delay
- Hold up: Wait or delay
- Hold up: Impede; detain
- Hold up: Support or lift
- Hold up: Fulfill / fulfill or complete one’s part of an agreement
- Hold up: Rob at gunpoint
- Jump around: Move erratically by jumping
J- Jump at: Accept something enthusiastically
- Jump down: Leave an elevated position to a lower position by one jump
- Jump in: Enter something quickly. Usually a mode of transport
- Jump off: Move from an elevated place by one jump
- Jump on: Board a vehicle
- Jump on: Attack verbally, to criticise excessively
- Jump out: Be obviously different or special; to capture an observer’s attention at once
- Jump up: Move from one position to a higher position by one jump
K- Keep across: Keep abreast of or up to date with; to keep people informed of
- Keep around: Keep something near one
- Keep at: Continue with something difficult
- Keep away: Refrain from coming (near)
- Keep away: Prevent from coming (near)
- Keep away from: Avoid or evade
- Keep away from: Deny (someone) access to
- Keep back: Maintain a safe distance
- Keep down: Repress
- Keep down: Restrain or control (a sound)
- Keep down: Cause not to increase or rise
- Keep down: Not to vomit
- Keep down: Stay concealed by not standing up
- Keep from: Control yourself, refrain
- Keep in: Not allow someone out
- Keep off: Not talk about
- Keep off: Not touch something
- Keep on: Persist or continue
- Keep on: Persist in talking about a subject to the annoyance of the listener
- Keep on: Cause or allow to remain in an existing position
- Keep out: Refrain from entering a place or condition
- Keep out: Restrain someone or something from entering a place or condition
- Keep out of: Stay away from (a place or condition)
- Keep out of: Restrain someone or something from entering (a place or condition)
- Keep to oneself: Purposely avoid interaction with others; to be introverted
- Keep up: Stay even or ahead
- Keep up: Ensure that one remains well-informed about something
- Keep up with: Move at the same rate
- Kick around: Abuse or mistreat; to bully
- Kick around: Wander loose; to float around; to hang around
- Kick back: Relax
- Kick down: Break or demolish something by physical bodily force
- Kick in: Start, connect, or take effect, especially in a sudden way
- Kick in: Contribute, especially to a collection of money
- Kick off: Make the first kick in a game or part of a game
- Kick off: Start; to launch
- Kick off: Dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position
- Kick off: Die or quit permanently
- Kick off: Shut down or turn off suddenly
- Kick off: Suddenly become more active
- Kick off: Be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight
- Kick off: Have a fight or argument start
- Kick out: Eject, throw out, or forcefully remove
- Kick out: Stop, stall, or disconnect suddenly
- Kick up: Raise, to increase (a price)
- Kick up: Show anger (about something)
- Kick up: Function improperly, to show signs of disorder, (of an illness) to flare up
- Knock about: Spend time companionably; to hang around
- Knock about: Engage in a relaxing activity in; to hang around in
- Knock about: Be located in or mislaid in
- Knock about: Hit or behave violently towards
- Knock back: Stun; to surprise
- Knock back: Reject; to refuse
- Knock down: Hit or knock (something), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls
- Knock down: Demolish
- Knock down: At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel
- Knock down: Reduce the price of
- Knock down: Drink fast
- Knock down: Disassemble for shipment
- Knock it off: Stop doing something; desist
- Knock off: Bump or hit so that something falls off
- Knock off: Quit; stop doing work or other activity
- Knock off: Kill someone
- Knock off: Reduce or remove
- Knock off: Rob
- Knock off: Make a copy of, as of a design
- Knock out: Strike or bump (someone or something) out
- Knock out: Render unconscious, as by a blow to the head
- Knock out: Put to sleep
- Knock out: Exhaust
- Knock out: Complete, especially in haste; knock off
- Knock out: Cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it
- Knock out: Communicate (a message) by knocking
- Knock over: Bump or strike something in such a way as to tip it
- Knock over: Rob; to stage a heist of
- Knock together: Assemble something quickly; to knock up
- Knock up: Put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily
- Knock up: Impregnate, especially out of wedlock
L - Lay by: Put away for future use; put aside; store; save; hoard; to build up as savings
- Lay down: Give up, surrender, or yield (e.g. a weapon)
- Lay down: Intentionally take a fall while riding a motorcycle, in order to prevent a more serious collision
- Lay down: Specify, institute, enact, assert firmly, state authoritatively, establish or formulate
- Lay down: Lie down; to place oneself in a reclined or horizontal position, on a bed or similar, for the purpose of resting
- Lay low: Topple or overcome; to cause to fall; (of a person) to knock out
- Lay off: Cease, quit, stop (doing something)
- Lay off: Stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone
- Lay on: Provide (food or drinks) for free
- Lay on: Repeatedly say (particular things)
- Lay out: Arrange in a certain way, so as to spread or space apart
- Lay up: Make a layup with (a basketball)
- Live down: Get used to something shameful
- Live off: Survive by consuming only a certain thing or things
- Live on: Survive solely by consuming a certain thing
- Live on: Endure
- Live out: Not reside on the premises of one’s employer
- Live out: Live some distance away or outside of a town/city
- Live out: Fulfill or act out a dream or fantasy or aspiration
- Live out: Pass time or to pass the remainder of one’s life
- Live through: Survive a difficult period or event
- Live up: Fulfill the expectations placed upon
- Let down: Allow to descend
- Let down: Disappoint; to betray or fail somebody
- Let in: Let someone or something come in
- Let in on: Disclose information to someone; to tell somebody a secret or share privileged information
- Let off: Cause to explode or come out; to release
- Let off: Forgive and not punish
- Let on: Reveal, disclose, or divulge
- Let out: Release
- Let out: Allow to operate at higher speed by adjusting controls
- Let out: Enlarge by adjusting one or more seams
- Let out: Of sound, to emit
- Let out: Disclose
- Let past: Allow someone to pass one
- Let up: Cease; stop
- Look after: Watch or protect; to keep safe
- Look ahead: Consider the future, to anticipate future events
- Look back: Think about something that happened in the past
- Look down on: Regard someone with a feeling of superiority
- Look around: Inspect a building or area
- Look around: Search a place
- Look around: Turn one’s head to see what is behind oneself
- Look at: Consider
- Look for: Search for; to seek
- Look forward to: Feel pleased and excited about something that is going to happen
- Look in (on sby): Visit a person or place for a short time
- Look into: Investigate, explore, or consider
- Look on: Watch; to observe
- Look on as: Treat someone in a particular role; to consider someone in a particular way
- Look out: Look from within to the outside
- Look out: Be vigilant and aware
- Look out for: Take care of someone, make sure someone is cared for
- Look out for: Keep alert and try to see
- Look round: Inspect a building or area
- Look round: Search a place
- Look round: Turn one’s head to see what is behind oneself
- Look through: Gaze through a gap or aperture
- Look through: Search, either with the eyes or by hand
- Look through: Pretend not to see something or someone who is clearly visible
- Look to: Seek inspiration or advice or reward from someone
- Look up: Have better prospects, to improve
- Look up: Obtain information about something from a text source
- Look up to: Show respect or admiration for
- Look upon: Consider or regard something in a specific manner
- Look upon: Gaze at something; to look on
- Look upon as: Consider, regard
M- Make after: Chase
- Make away with: Steal
- Make for: To move towards something
- Make for: To contribute, to cause, lead to
- Make into: Cause (the first object) to become (the second object); to change or transform
- Make it up to: Pay back; to return someone a previous good deed
- Make of: Form an opinion about (someone or something)
- Make off: Leave somewhere in a hurry
- Make off: To escape
- Make off with: Steal
- Make out: Draw up (a document etc.), to designate (a cheque) to a given recipient, payee
- Make out: Manage, get along; to do (well, badly etc.)
- Make out: Represent; to make (something) appear to be true
- Make out: Kiss passionately
- Make out of: Construct from; to create (something) using (a material or substance)
- Make over: Renovate or to convert to a different use, particularly houses, offices, or rooms within them
- Make over: Create a new physical look, especially with a new hairstyle, cosmetics, or clothes
- Make over: Improve upon and/or take in a new direction
- Make towards: Head in the direction
- Make up: Compensate, fill in or catch up
- Make up: Invent, imagine, or concoct (a story, claim, etc.)
- Make up: Assemble, or mix
- Make up: Apply cosmetics or makeup to
- Make up: Resolve, forgive or smooth over an argument or fight
- Make up for: To compensate for something, to replace
- Make up to: Do something to show that you are sorry about the problems you have caused someone
- Make way: Make progress
- Mess about: Misbehave
- Mess about: Be in a casual non-committal relationship
- Mess about: Play with; to toy with; to waste the time of (a person)
- Mess around: Fiddle idly
- Mess around: Joke, kid, or play
- Mess around: Have a sexual relationship, especially one which is non-commital
- Mess up: Make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss
- Mess up: Cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin
- Mess up: Botch, bungle; to perform poorly on
- Mess up: Make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly
- Mess up: Cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior
- Mess up: Damage; injure
- Mess up: Manhandle; beat up; rough up
- Mess up: Discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray
- Mess with: Interfere with
- Mess with: Diss; to put down
- Mess with: Joke around with or dupe someone, in either a friendly or unfriendly manner
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- Pass by: Travel past without stopping
- Pass by :Travel past (something) without stopping; to ignore, to disregard
- Pass by: Of a period of time: to come to an end, to elapse
- Pass down: Transmit information or give property to younger generations.
- Pass off: Happen
- Pass off: Misrepresent something
- Pass on: Convey or communicate
- Pass on: Skip or decline
- Pass on: Die
- Pass out: Faint; to become unconscious
- Pass out: Distribute, to hand out
- Pass over: Ignore someone and give a job, reward, etc, to someone more junior.
- Pass over: Ignore, refuse to discuss.
- Pass round: Distribute, give to people present.
- Pass through: Visit a place without stopping or only stopping briefly
- Pass to: Give ownership or responsibility to someone.
- Pass up: Refuse (not accept).
- Pick apart: Overcome by skilled execution
- Pick at: Eat unwillingly
- Pick at: To pull or touch something several times
- Pick off: Remove by picking
- Pick off: Shoot one by one
- Pick off: Dispose of tasks, obstacles, opponents etc. one by one
- Pick on: Bully, harass or make fun of a victim; to bother or harass
- Pick on: Select (a person) for a task, etc.
- Pick out: Distinguish
- Pick out: Ornament or relieve with lines etc. of a different, usually lighter, colour
- Pick through: Search something that is disordered for something.
- Pick up: Lift; to grasp and raise
- Pick up: Collect an object, especially in passing
- Pick up: Clean up; to return to an organized state
- Pick up: Collect a passenger
- Pick up: Collect and detain (a suspect)
- Pick up: Improve, increase or speed up
- Pick up: Restart or resume
- Pick up: Learn, to grasp; to begin to understand
- Pick up: Receive (a radio signal or the like)
- Pick up: Notice, detect or discern, often used with “on”
- Pick up: Point out (a person’s behaviour, habits or actions) in a critical manner
- Pick up: Meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation
- Pick up: Answer a telephone
- Pick up: Pay for
- Pick up after: Tidy a mess someone else has made.
- Pick up on: Correct someone when they say something wrong.
- Pick up on: Notice something that most people don’t.
- Pick up on: React to something.
- Pick up on: Comment on something said earlier in a conversation.
- Pick yourself up: Recover from a fall or problem
- Play along: Take part in a charade, deception, or practical joke
- Play around: Behave in a silly, or childish, or irresponsible way
- Play around: Work with in a non-serious manner
- Play at: Pretend to be a different person while playing a game
- Play at: Do something in a manner that lacks seriousness, commitment, or professionalism
- Play down: Make or attempt to make something seem less important, likely, or obvious
- Play off: Pretend not to be embarrassed, upset, impressed or otherwise affected by something
- Play out: Play music to accompany the end of, or as a final segment in (a programme, broadcast etc.)
- Play out: Occur in a certain manner
- Play up: Misbehave
- Play up: Make or attempt to make something appear more important, likely or obvious; to showcase or highlight
- Pull ahead: Start being in a winning position (e.g. in a race or competition)
- Pull apart: Become separated as a result of pulling
- Pull apart: Rigorously investigate the basis of an idea or theory
- Pull away: Move ahead
- Pull in: Pull something, so that comes inside
- Pull in: Earn
- Pull in: Approach a station
- Pull off: Remove by pulling
- Pull off: Achieve; to succeed at something difficult
- Pull off: Turn off a road
- Pull off: Begin moving and then move away; to pull away
- Pull on: Put on (clothes) by tugging
- Pull out: Withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat
- Pull out: Use coitus interrupt us as a method of birth control
- Pull out: Remove something from a container
- Pull out: Maneuver a vehicle from the side of a road onto the lane
- Pull over: Come to a stop, and turn off the road
- Pull over: Cause to pull over
- Pull up: Lift upwards or vertically
- Pull up: Pull forward
- Pull up: Retrieve; get
- Pull up: Drive close towards something, especially a curb
- Put (effort) into: To try
- Put across: Explain or state something clearly and understandably
- Put aside: Save (money)
- Put aside: Ignore or intentionally disregard (something), temporarily or permanently
- Put asunder: Sunder; disjoin; separate; disunite; divorce; annul; dissolve
- Put away: Place out of the way, clean up
- Put away: Store, add to one’s stores for later use
- Put away: Consume (food or drink), especially in large quantities
- Put away: Send (someone) to prison
- Put away: Knock out an opponent
- Put away: Take a large lead in a game, especially enough to guarantee victory
- Put back: Return something to its original place
- Put back: Postpone an arranged event or appointment
- Put back: Drink fast; to knock down alcohol
- Put back: Change the time in a time zone to an earlier time
- Put by: Preserve food by canning, freezing, drying, etc.
- Put by: Perform an action without attracting attention
- Put by: Save money
- Put by: Run a ship aground intentionally to avoid a collision
- Put down: Insult, belittle, or demean
- Put down: Pay
- Put down: Halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force
- Put down: Euthanize (an animal)
- Put down: Write (something)
- Put down: Terminate a call; to hang up
- Put down: Add a name to a list
- Put down: Make prices, or taxes, lower
- Put down: Place a baby somewhere to sleep
- Put down: Land
- Put down: Drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle
- Put down: Cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book)
- Put down as: Assume someone has a particular character from very little information
- Put down for: Record that someone has offered to help, or contribute something
- Put down to: State the cause of a situation
- Put forward: Propose for consideration
- Put forward: Change the time in a time zone to a later time
- Put in: Place inside
- Put in: Apply, request, or submit
- Put in: Contribute
- Put in: Call at, arrive at, or enter a place (e.g., to enter a harbor or port)
- Put in practice: Make (something) a practical reality
- Put off: Procrastinate
- Put off: Delay (a task, event, etc.)
- Put off: Distract; to disturb the concentration of
- Put off: Cause to dislike; to discourage (from doing)
- Put on: Don (clothing, equipment or the like)
- Put on: Fool, kid, deceive
- Put on: Assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense
- Put on: Play (a recording)
- Put on: Initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop
- Put on: Perform for an audience
- Put oneself across: Explain one’s ideas and opinions clearly so that another person can understand them and get a picture of your personality
- Put out: Place outside or eject
- Put out: Produce
- Put out: Injure a part of the body, especially a joint
- Put out: Extinguish (a flame or light)
- Put over: State, or explain a concept in a clear, understandable manner
- Put past: Conclude that (someone) would not do something
- Put through: Connect
- Put through: Cause to endure
- Put to: Ask or pose a question, or make a proposal
- Put together: Assemble, construct, build or formulate
- Put towards: Make a financial contribution
- Put up: Place in a high location
- Put up: Hang or mount
- Put up: Cajole or dare to do something
- Put up: Store away
- Put up: House, shelter, or take in
- Put up: Present, especially in “put up a fight”
- Put up: Provide funds in advance
- Put up: Make available, to offer
- Put up with: Endure, tolerate, suffer through, or allow, especially something annoying
- Put forward: To propose or suggest
- Put (effort) into: To try
- Put across: Explain or state something clearly and understandably
- Put aside: Save (money)
- Put aside: Ignore or intentionally disregard (something), temporarily or permanently
- Put asunder: Sunder; disjoin; separate; disunite; divorce; annul; dissolve
- Put away: Place out of the way, clean up
- Put away: Store, add to one’s stores for later use
- Put away: Consume (food or drink), especially in large quantities
- Put away: Send (someone) to prison
- Put away: Knock out an opponent
- Put away: Take a large lead in a game, especially enough to guarantee victory
- Put back: Return something to its original place
- Put back: Postpone an arranged event or appointment
- Put back: Drink fast; to knock down alcohol
- Put back: Change the time in a time zone to an earlier time
- Put by: Preserve food by canning, freezing, drying, etc.
- Put by: Perform an action without attracting attention
- Put by: Save money
- Put by: Run a ship aground intentionally to avoid a collision
- Put down: Insult, belittle, or demean
- Put down: Pay
- Put down: Halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force
- Put down: Euthanize (an animal)
- Put down: Write (something)
- Put down: Terminate a call; to hang up
- Put down: Add a name to a list
- Put down: Make prices, or taxes, lower
- Put down: Place a baby somewhere to sleep
- Put down: Land
- Put down: Drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle
- Put down: Cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book)
- Put down as: Assume someone has a particular character from very little information
- Put down for: Record that someone has offered to help, or contribute something
- Put down to: State the cause of a situation
- Put forward: Propose for consideration
- Put forward: Change the time in a time zone to a later time
- Run about: Be very busy doing many different things
- Run across: Cross by running
- Run across: Find or discover by chance
- Run after: Chase
- Run after: Make a determined effort to win someone’s affections
- Run against: Oppose, make difficulties.
- Run along: Leave; to make one’s way somewhere else
- Run around: Be very busy doing many different things
- Run around after: Spend a lot of time doing things for another person or group of people
- Run away: Flee by running
- Run away: Leave home
- Run away with: Leave secretly with another person
- Run away with: Steal and get away with it
- Run away with: Be misled
- Run away with: Overwhelm, get the better of
- Run away with: Be superior or outstanding in something
- Run back: Take someone home by car; to give someone a lift to their house
- Run back: Rewind a film or cassette
- Run by: Inform someone briefly of the main points of an idea
- Run by: Briefly stop at a location for a particular purpose
- Run down: Hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them
- Run down: Criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly
- Run down: Find something or someone after searching for a long time
- Run down: Lose power slowly
- Run down: Read quickly a list or other short text
- Run down: Reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure
- Run for it: To run very quickly in order to escape from someone or something
- Run in: Arrest
- Run in: Use new machinery at less than full speed, preventing damage
- Run into: Enter by running
- Run into: Collide with
- Run into: Encounter or meet unexpectedly
- Run into: Cause to blend into
- Run into: Reach a large figure
- Run low: Near the end of a supply of something; to be nearly running out
- Run off: Flee or depart quickly
- Run off: Make photocopies, or print
- Run off: Write something quickly
- Run off: Pour or spill off or over
- Run off: Chase someone away
- Run off: Operate by a particular energy source
- Run off with: Leave with someone with the intention of living with them or marrying them
- Run off with: Steal or abscond
- Run on: Continue without interruption
- Run on: Using a certain time zone
- Run on: Continue talking for a long time
- Run on: Operate with a particular energy source
- Run out: Use up; to consume all of something
- Run out: Expire, to come to an end
- Run out: Extend a piece of material, or clothing
- Run out on: Leave a partner or commitment suddenly and without prior warning
- Run over: Exceed the allotted time
- Run over: Cross by running
- Run over: Drive over, causing injury or death
- Run over: Describe briefly
- Run over: Rehearse quickly
- Run over: Overflow
- Run past: Bring an idea or proposal to the attention of someone in order to obtain their opinion
- Run through: Summarise briefly
- Run through: Repeat something
- Run through: Use completely, in a short space of time
- Run through: Pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system
- Run through: Impale a person with a blade, usually a sword
- Run to: Reach a particular maximum amount, size, value, etc.
- Run to: Reach the limit of one’s abilities or tastes
- Run up: Hasten to a destination
- Run up: Make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly
- Run up: Bring a flag to the top of its flag pole
- Run up: Rise; to swell; to grow; to increase
- Run up: Accumulate a debt
- Run up: Thrust up, as anything long and slender
- Run up against: Begin to encounter problems with someone or something
- Run up on: To confront someone with hostility
- Run with: Proceed with; accept
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- See in: Welcome
- See into: Escort into, especially a place of shelter
- See out: Accompany a guest when he or she leaves
- See out: Continue something until completion; to watch an activity develop to a conclusion
- See through: Find something to be visually transparent
- See through: Not be deceived by something that is false or misleading
- See through: Provide support or cooperation to (a person) throughout a period of time
- See through: Do something until it is finished
- See through: Constitute ample supply for one for
- See to: Take care of; to effect; to make happen
- See to: Serve or care for
- Spring back: Return to original position
- Spring on: Surprise someone
- Spring from/ Spring up: Appear suddenly
- Spring for: Pay for generously
- Think about/of: Consider something before making a decision
- Think ahead: Plan for a future situation; to think carefully about what might happen in the future
- Think over: Consider something carefully
- Think through: Consider all the possibilities and outcomes of a situation
- Think up: Create or invent something, such as a story or an excuse
- Try back: Phone back
- Try for: Make an attempt to get something
- Try it on: Provoke someone by being annoying or behaving badly
- Try it on: Attempt to get something, usually by deceit, without great hopes of success
- Try on: Put clothes on to see if they fit
- Try out: Test
- Try out: Test something to see if you like it or want to buy it
- Try out: for Be tested for a sports team
- Throw away: Discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash, to dispose of
- Throw away: Waste, to squander
- Throw down: Cause something one is holding to drop, often forcefully
- Throw in: Add something extra free of charge
- Throw off: Confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer
- Throw off: Introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew
- Throw on: Hastily put on (clothes)
- Throw out: Discard; to dispense with something; to throw away
- Throw out: Dismiss or expel someone from any longer performing duty or attending somewhere
- Throw out: Offer an idea for consideration
- Throw out: Produce in a haphazard fashion
- Throw up: Vomit
- Throw up: Produce something new or unexpected
- Throw up: Cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air
- Walk away: Withdraw from a problematic situation
- Walk away: Survive a challenging or dangerous situation without harm
- Walk away from: Abandon or leave; to shun
- Walk in on: Enter suddenly or unexpectedly while something is happening; to intrude or interrupt by entering
- Walk into: Collide with
- Walk into: Fall into (a trap), especially one that could have been avoided with more care
- Walk it off: Recover from (a minor injury) or digest (a large meal) by walking around
- Walk out: Go out with; to be romantically involved
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