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What does 'break down' mean when used with machinery and a person?
What does 'break down' mean when used with machinery and a person?
Stop working and lose control of feelings, respectively.
What does 'bring about' mean?
What does 'bring about' mean?
Cause to happen.
What does 'come across' mean?
What does 'come across' mean?
Meet or find by chance.
What does 'do away with' mean?
What does 'do away with' mean?
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What does 'get away with' mean?
What does 'get away with' mean?
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What does 'give up' mean?
What does 'give up' mean?
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What does 'go back on' mean?
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What does 'hold back' mean?
What does 'hold back' mean?
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What does 'come through' mean?
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What does 'cut back' mean?
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Study Notes
Phrasal Verbs
Be
- Be about to: be on the point of
- Be after: go after; chase
- Be against: be opposed to
- Be away: be absent
- Be back: return; come back
- Be in: be at home/in one's office etc
- Be in for: be about to experience (usu bad)
- Be on: be shown in cinemas, theatres etc
- Be over: be finished
- Be up to: 1) be equal to, 2) depend on
Break
- Break down: 1) (of machinery) stop working, 2) (of a person) lose control of feelings
- Break in: 1) (intr) enter by force, 2) (on) interrupt, 3) (horses etc) train
- Break into: 1) (tr) enter by force, 2) burst into(song, laughter etc)
- Break off: 1) stop temporarily, 2) (tr) end a relationship
- Break out: 1) begin suddenly (war, disease, fire etc), 2) (of) escape from a place
- Break up: 1) (intr) separate; split up, 2) stop for holidays (schools etc)
Bring, Carry
- Bring about: cause to happen
- Bring back: 1) recall, 2) reintroduce
- Bring down: 1) cause to fall, 2) reduce prices
- Bring forward: suggest an idea
- Bring on: cause, usu sth unpleasant
- Bring out: publish
- Bring round: 1) help sb regain consciousness, 2) persuade sb to change opinion
- Bring to: persuade sb to change opinion
- Bring up: 1) raise a child, 2) vomit, 3) introduce a subject, 4) mention
- Be/get carried away: be/get excited
- Carry off: do sth successfully
- Carry on: continue esp despite difficulties
- Carry out: perform, complete
- Carry over: postpone
- Carry through: 1) complete despite difficulties, 2) help sb survive during troubled times
Come, Cut
- Come across: meet/find by chance
- Come by: obtain
- Come down with: become ill from
- Come into: inherit
- Come off: 1) happen, 2) succeed
- Come out: 1) be published, 2) bloom
- Come round: 1) visit casually, 2) regain consciousness, 3) (to + O) be persuaded to change opinion
- Come to: regain consciousness
- Come on: come along; hurry up
- Come through: survive
- Come up: be mentioned
- Come up to: equal
- Come up with: find (an answer, solution etc)
- Cut across: take a shorter way
- Cut back: reduce (production)
- Cut down: reduce length of sth
- Cut down (on): reduce amount consumed
- Cut in/into: interrupt
- Cut off: disconnect
- Be cut off: be isolated
- Cut out: 1) leave out; remove, 2) (for) (passive) be suited for
- Cut up: cut into small pieces
Do, Fall
- Do away with: abolish
- Do down: speak badly of sb
- Do in: kill
- Do out: clean
- Do up: 1) fasten; tie, 2) redecorate
- Do with: 1) need; want, 2) have a connection with
- Do without: manage to live or continue without
- Fall back: move back; retreat
- Fall back on: use sth in the absence of sth else; turn to
- Fall behind: 1) fail to keep up with, 2) be late with payment
- Fall for: 1) be tricked, 2) fall in love with sb
- Fall in with: accept sb's plans, ideas
- Fall off: decrease
- Fall on: 1) attack, 2) eat (food) hungrily
- Fall out: 1) quarrel, 2) (with) have a disagreement
- Fall through: fail to be completed
Get, Give
- Get about: move around; spread
- Get sth across: make sth understood
- Get away: 1) escape, 2) leave
- Get along: 1) have a friendly relationship, 2) (with) get on with sb
- Get at: 1) reach, 2) imply, suggest
- Get away with: avoid being punished for sth
- Get sb down: depress
- Get off: 1) to avoid punishment, 2) to descend from a bus etc
- Get on: 1) enter a bus etc, 2) manage
- Get on with: continue, often after interruption
- Get over: 1) return to usual state of health, happiness etc after sth bad, 2) overcome
- Get (a)round: coax; persuade sb by kindness
- Get through: 1) finish work, 2) reach sb by phone
- Give away: 1) give sth for free, 2) reveal
- Give off: emit
- Give back: return
- Give in: 1) surrender, 2) hand in
- Give out: distribute
- Give up: 1) stop (a habit etc), 2) surrender
Go, Hold
- Go about with: keep company with
- Go ahead: go in front
- Go back on: break a promise, agreement, etc
- Go down with: become ill
- Go for: 1) attack, 2) apply for
- Go in for: enter a competition
- Go off: 1) explode, 2) (of food) go bad
- Go out: 1) be extinguished, 2) mix socially
- Go over: 1) examine details, 2) repeat
- Go round: be enough for everyone to have a share
- Hold back: 1) hesitate, 2) control, 3) keep a secret
- Hold on: wait
- Hold out: 1) endure, 2) last
- Hold up: 1) delay, 2) delay or stop sth
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Test your knowledge of English phrasal verbs with this quiz, covering various phrases and their meanings.
