📝Phrasal verbs list📝


 📝Phrasal verbs list📝

common phrasal verbs

 with meanings and example sentences

In English traditional grammar, a phrasal verb is the combination of two or three words from different gr byammatical categories – a verb and a particle, such as an adverb or a preposition – to form a single semantic unit on a lexical or syntactic level. Examples: turn down, run into, sit up


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  •         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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