Common Phrasal Verbs

Set up

• Establish or organize

• Disassemble or break down

• Ignore or neglect

• Delay or postpone

Come up with

• Invent or produce (an idea)

• Copy or replicate (an idea)

• Discard or ignore (an idea)

• Analyze or critique (an idea)

Sign up (for)

• Enroll

• Register

• Subscribe

• Join

Break down

• Separate into parts / analyze

• Combine into a whole

• Ignore the details

• Simplify without analysis

Run out of

• Have none left

• Have plenty available

• Have some remaining

• Have a surplus

Point out

• Highlight, indicate

• Ignore, overlook

• Conceal, hide

• Dismiss, reject

Figure out

• Understand or solve

• Ignore or dismiss

• Complicate or confuse

• Overlook or neglect

Hand in / Turn in

• Submit (assignment)

• Receive (assignment)

• Review (assignment)

• Reject (assignment)

Look for

• Try to find

• Ignore

• Search for something

• Give up

Work out

• Calculate a mathematical problem

• Solve or resolve (a problem)

• Exercise or train physically

• Plan or strategize an approach