Common English Verb Phrases
Essential English Phrasal Verbs and Meanings
- Hold up: lift
- Join in: take part, participate
- Keep off: stay away, forbidden
- Keep on: continue
- Leave out: omit, skip
- Let in: allow entry
- Do pass: [meaning unclear]
- Listen in: listen (spying)
- after-care look
- Look back on: remember
- Look down on: despise
- Look for: seek
- Look forward to: be willing
- Look into: investigate
- Look on: consider
- Look out: be careful
- Look up: look for (information), go visit, improve
- Look up to: admire
- Make straight for: go directly to/for
- Make up: invent, reconciliation
- Miss out on: miss
- Move on to: pass
- Name after: put a name
- Pass on: send
- Pay back: return, revenge
- Pay off: cancel a payment, worth
- Pick out: choose
- Pick up: pick up, lift
- Pull out: draw
- Put away: save
- Put in place: [definition missing]
- Put down: humiliate, scorn
- Put on: put on (clothes)
- Put out: extinguish (fire)
- Put up with: endure, bear
- Ring off: hang up (phone)
- Ring up: call, phone
- Run away: escape
- Run into: encounter
- Run out of: run out
- Run over: run over
- Send out: post, distribute
- Serve on: membership
- Set off/out: set out, hitting the road
- Set up: put, lay, hang
- Shine through: it became clear, highlighting, excel
- Show up: appear, posted on a site
- Speak out against: Bury
- Stand down: give place, retire
- Stand for: represent, signify
- Stand in for: temporary replacement
- Stand out: highlight, excel
- Stand up: stand up
- Stand (someone) up: jilt
- Stand up for: support, defend
- Start up: start
- Stop by: passed by
- Strike up: start
- Switch off: turn off
- Switch on: turn on
- Take after: resemble
- Take apart: dismantle
- Take away: remove
- Take back: retract, withdraw
- Take down: point, to note
- Take off: take away, away from, remove, clear
- Take on: take
- Take out: take out
- Take over: take a seat, grab
- Take part in: participate in
- Take up: start doing, engage in
- Try on: tested
- Turn around: turn around
- Turn back: return
- Turn down: reject
- Turn into: become
- Turn off: turn off, roll back
- Turn on: turn on
- Turn out: prove
- Turn over: turn around
- Turn up: show, appear
- Work out: run, understand, exercise
- Write down: point, note