Mastering Essential English Phrasal Verbs Reference

Essential English Phrasal Verbs and Meanings

This reference list provides definitions and translations for common English phrasal verbs, structured alphabetically by the main verb.

A: Ask

• ASK FOR: Request

B: Break, Bring

• BREAK AWAY: Separate
• BREAK DOWN: To malfunction / avariar-se/espatllar
• BREAK IN / BREAK INTO: To intrude / introduir-se/ficar-se
• BREAK OFF: To separate from (something)
• BREAK OUT: To burst (e.g., war)
• BREAK UP: To separate / To end a relationship
• BRING UP: To educate / To raise (a child)

C: Call, Care, Carry, Catch, Check, Clean, Come, Count, Cut

• CALL OFF: Cancel / Suspend
• CALL ON: See switch to
• CALL UP: Call
• CARE ABOUT: Worrying
• CARRY ON: Continue
• CATCH ON: Getting fashion / Catch up on success / Set up
• CHECK IN: Check luggage
• CHECK OUT: Pay off
• CLEAN UP: Limpieza (Cleaning)
• COME ACROSS: Find accidentally
• COME ASIDE: Get rid / Shattered
• COME BACK: Return
• COME BACK DOWN: Eat off off / Off 's / Drop
• COME ON!: Come (Encouragement)
• COME UP WITH: Proposed / Come to (To suggest or propose)
• COUNT ON (someone): To have (To rely on someone)
• CUT DOWN: Lower
• CUT OFF: Cut

D, E, F: Deal, Dress, End, Feel, Figure, Fill, Find

• DEAL IN: Trade
• DEAL WITH: Negotiate
• DRESS UP: Dress well
• END UP: Finally
• FEELS LIKE: Come up to
• FEEL LIKE: To feel able
• FIGURE OUT: Understanding
• FILL IN: Fill (a form)
• FIND OUT: Discover

G: Get, Give, Go, Grow

• GET AHEAD: Progress
• GET AWAY: Escaparse (To escape)
• GET AWAY WITH: Sortirse with her (To avoid punishment)
• GET BACK: Return
• GET BACK BY: Get down / Sortirse
• GET HOLD OF: Agafarse (To grab/take hold of)
• GET INTO: To get into
• GET OFF: Get down on bus (To alight from a bus)
• GET OUT OF: Lliurarse (To get rid of/deliver oneself from)
• GET OVER: Referse (To recover)
• GET TOGETHER: Meet up
• GET TO: Aixecarse (To get up/rise)
• GIVE AWAY: To reveal
• GIVE BACK: To return
• GIVE IN: Surrender / Rendirse
• GIVE OUT: Divide
• GIVE UP: Let go
• GO ALONG: Someone to go down
• GO DOWN: Descend
• GO OFF: Go
• GO ON: Continue
• GO OUT: Leave
• GO THROUGH WITH: Carry out
• GROW UP: Mature

H: Hang, Hold

• HANG OUT: Socialize
• HANG UP: Buried
• HOLD UP: Keep holding
• HOLD OFF: Banned

K, L: Keep, Leave, Let, Live, Look

• KEEP ON: Continuously
• LEAVE OUT: Omit
• LET DOWN: Disappoint
• LET IN: Allow entry
• LIVE UP TO: Develop
• LOOK AHEAD: Look after / Take care
• LOOK BACK ON: Remember
• LOOK FOR: Search
• LOOK FORWARD TO: Wait (Eagerly anticipate)
• LOOK IN ON: Illusion / To see someone (To visit briefly)
• LOOK INTO: Investigate
• LOOK OUT: Consider / AMN account
• LOOK OVER: Look through / Review / Ignoring
• LOOK UP: Up to / Look better / Make straight / Admire for / Directmaneta go

M, P: Make, Miss, Pay, Pick, Pitch, Put

• MAKE UP: Inventarse (To invent/reconcile)
• MISS OUT ON: Miss
• PAY BACK: Return money
• PAY FOR: Pay
• PAY OFF: Pay a fee
• PICK OUT: Choose
• PITCH UP: To collect the ground
• PUT AWAY: Keep
• PUT OFF: Postpone
• PUT ON: Perch clothes (To wear clothes)
• PUT OUT: Extinguish a cigarette
• PUT UP WITH: Tolerate / Withstand

R: Ring, Run

• RING OFF: Ring buried
• RUN AWAY FROM: Escapolirse (To escape)
• RUN INTO: Stumbled out of (To meet accidentally)
• RUN OUT OF: Staying not run over
• RUN OVER: Serve on hit / A member of seven off / Out