Phrasal Verbs Flashcards
(100 cards)
1
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Call on
A
To visit / ask for help
2
Q
Call off
A
To cancel
3
Q
Call back
A
Return a phone call
4
Q
Talk through
A
Guide someone through an issue
5
Q
Talk into
A
To pursued somebody to do or not to do something
6
Q
Talk over
A
To discuss something
7
Q
Come across
A
Find unexpectedly
8
Q
Come apart
A
Separate
9
Q
Come forward
A
Volunteer for a task
10
Q
Come along
A
Accompany
11
Q
Catch at
A
Take or grab hold of something
12
Q
Catch on
A
To become popular or fashionable
13
Q
Catch up
A
to get to the same point as somebody else
14
Q
Carry on
A
To continue
15
Q
Carry out
A
To perform a task
16
Q
Carry over
A
Continue past a certain point
17
Q
Fall apart
A
Break into pieces
18
Q
Fall down
A
Fall to the ground
19
Q
Fall out
A
Become loose and unattached
20
Q
Back up
A
Move a copy of computer data
21
Q
Back away
A
To move backwards because you are afraid, shocked etc
22
Q
Back out
A
To not do something that you had promised to do
23
Q
Get along
A
Like each other
24
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Get away
A
Go on a vacation
25
Get back
Return
26
Get on
To get along
27
Pop in
to make a quick visit
28
Pop up
to appear or happen when you are not excepting it
29
Pop out
to come out of something suddenly or quick and
30
Break up
To come to an end
31
Break in
Force entry to a building
32
Break out
Escape
33
Hang in
Stay positive
34
Hang on
Wait for a short time
35
Hang out
Spend time relaxing
36
Hang up
End a phone call
37
Count in
to include or involve
38
Count on
Depend or rely
39
Count down
Wait excitedly for something to happen
40
run into
To meet somebody by chance
41
run through
To discuss or read something quickly
42
run after
To try to catch somebody
43
run out
To finish your supply of something; to come to an end
44
Dig in
Start eating greedily
45
Dig up
To make a hole or take away soil by digging
46
Dig out
To find some thing that has been forgotten for a long time
47
Look for
Try to find
48
Look into
Investigate
49
Look out
Be careful,vigilant
50
Give away
to donate something
51
Give back
To return something to the person you took it from
52
Give in
To stop fighting against somebody or something
53
Branch out
To start doing something new and different from the things you usually do
54
Branch off
(Used about a road) to live a larger road and go off in another direction
55
Start up
Open a business
56
Brush off
To remove something with a brush or with the hand
57
Brush up
To improve one’s knowledge or skills
58
Brush aside
To refuse to pay attention to somebody or something
59
Invite in
To ask somebody to come into your home
60
Invite out
To ask somebody to go out somewhere with you
61
Pass away
Die
62
Pass out
Faint
63
Pass by
To go past without stopping
64
Think back
To remember
65
Think of
To create an idea in your imagination
66
Think over
To consider something carefully
67
Make off
To leave in a hurry, for example after stealing something
68
Make up
To form something
69
Make over
To change your appearance
70
Scale down
To decrease the number, size or extent of something
71
Scale up
To Increase the size or number or something
72
Pick on
To behave unfairly or in a cruel way towards somebody
73
Pick out
To choose something /somebody from a number of people or things
74
Pick up
to become better;to improve
75
Pick at
To eat only small amounts of food because you are not hungry
76
Turn - off
Stop a machine
77
Turn-up
Appear
78
Turn on
Start a machine
79
Take over
To take responsibility for something
80
Take up
To start doing something regularly
81
Take on
To start employ somebody.
82
Take away
To remora something
83
Take in
To allow somebody in your home to stay
84
Check off
Mark something on a list as done
85
Check in
To arrive and register at a hotel or airport
86
Check out
To leave a hotel
87
Pull up
To slow and stop a car
88
Pull Off
Manage to do something difficult or tricky
89
Pull down
To demolish
90
Keep out
To not enter a place; to stay outside
91
Keep away
To avoid going near somebody / something
92
Keep on
To continue doing something
93
Bring back
To cause someone to remember
94
Bring down
To reduce
95
Bring on
Cause something to happen
96
Wait about
Wait somewhere doing nothing
97
wait on
To serve people at a restaurant
98
Wait out
To wait until an event is over
99
Boil over
To become very angry
100
Boil down
to be reduced or to reduce something by boiling
