Common Phrasal Verbs (1) [matching]

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• to meet someone unexpectedly

• bring up

• to take care of a child from birth to age 18

• bump into/run into

• to continue

• break up

• to end; to separate (a marriage / a relationship / etc.)

• carry on

• stop working / stop functioning

• break down

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• find something by chance

• come across

• recover after being unconscious / come to visit someone at their house

• come round

• think of and suggest an idea

• come up with (an idea)

• to rely on

• count on

• to make someone/yourself happier

• cheer up

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• to visit informally or unexpectedly

• dress up

• to take something (or someone) to a place and leave it there

• drop by

• reduce the amount you consume

• drop off

• put on different clothes in order to disguise yourself or to look nice for a special occasion

• cut out

• stop doing / eating something

• cut down on

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• to eliminate

• find out

• to recover from (an illness; a loss; a difficulty; a relationship that has ended)

• get on with (someone)

• to discover

• get rid of

• to have enough of something to function with nothing extra (money, language when in another country)

• get over (something/someone)

• to have a good relationship with

• get by

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• to stop trying to do something (often because it is too difficult)

• give up

• to distribute (something) to a group of people

• grow up

• to explode (a bomb); become bad (food); very exciting (a party)

• go off

• to have a romantic relationship with someone

• go out with

• to slowly become an adult

• give out/hand out

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• to hang clothes or an object on a hook or line; to end a phone call

• hang out

• to take care of (children, the sick, possessions, etc)

• let down

• to spend time relaxing usually with friends

• hang up

• to do something more quickly

• look after

• to disappoint (someone/yourself)

• hurry up

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• to invent (stories, excuses)

• pass out

• to lose consciousness / faint

• pick up

• to admire and respect

• look up to

• to meet / collect someone (eg: at the station / from school / a bar on Friday night 😜)

• look forward to

• to feel happy about something that is going to happen

• make up (something)

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• to use up (eg: money, petrol, time)

• put off

• to increase (weight)

• put on (an event/a show)

• to postpone / to do something later instead of now

• put on (clothes /make up)

• to organise an event

• put on (weight)

• to place something on your body

• run out of

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• to leave the ground (aeroplane/Superman)

• stand out

• to resemble a member of your family in appearance, behaviour or character

• take off (to fly)

• to remove from a surface or your body (clothes)

• shut down

• to be easy to see because of being different; distinguished

• take after/look like (someone)

• to close (a computer; a business)

• take off (something)

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• to think about and find a solution; do exercise

• work out

• to connect (eg: the TV)

• turn on

• to disconnect (eg: a computer)

• turn down

• to reject or refuse

• turn off

• to get rid of something you do not need any more

• throw away