Czasowniki frazowe składają się z czasownika i innego słowa lub frazy, zazwyczaj przyimka (preposition). Powstała kombinacja daje w rezultacie inny czasownik, którego znaczenie może nieraz być kłopotliwe dla cudzoziemców. Czasowniki frazowe powstają w języku potocznym i następnie stają się formalnie przyjętą formą w języku angielskim.
Część składowa czasownika frazowego, która nie jest czasownikiem (zazwyczaj przyimek) jest nazywana "particle". Największym problemem z czasownikami frazowymi jest to, że ich znaczenie nie jest takie jasne i mogą one oznaczać kilka rzeczy. Na przykład "to make out" może znaczyć widzieć coś, dostrzegać, ale również całować i dotykać.
Account for
- To explain or justify: Icouldn't account for what I was doing yesterday. [wyjaśniać , usprawiedliwiać]
- To constitute the primary factor: Bad weather accounted for the heavy traffice. [być głównym powodem]
Ache for
- To yearn: The refugee ached for his homeland. [bardzo tęsknić]
Act on
- To act in accordance with: She acted on his advice. [działać zgodnie z]
- To have an effect on: The speech acted on the emotions of all the listeners.[odziaływać]
Act out
- To demonstrate by pantomime or by words and gestures: The party guests acted out stories for one another.[odegrać]
Act up
- To fail to function properly: The TV is acting up again. [źle działać]
- To misbehave: What makes your child act up? [żle się zachowywać]
- To make itself felt: Her allergies acted up again. [dawać się we znaki]
Add in
-Include: Add in the tip too! [załączyć, dodać]
Add up
- To make total: These figures don't add up right. [dodawać się, dawać sumę]
- To seem reasonable: Some aspects of the story didn't add up. [mieć sens]
Add up to
- To indicate: The evidence adds up to a case of murder. [wskazywać, oznaczać]
Adhere to
- to hold closely or firmly: We have to adhere to our plan. [trzymać się]
Aim at
- Intend, drive at: What are you aiming at? [dążyć do, zmierzać, zamierzać]
Allow for
- To make provision for: Program allows for treatment of parents.[przewidywać, pozwalać na]
- To attempt to get something by artful means: He is angling for your heart. [próbować osiągnąć coś sposobem]
Answer back
- To reply rudely to someone: Students shouldn't answer back when reprimanded. [pyskować]
Answer for
- To be held liable: They will answer for their deeds. [ponosić odpowiedzialność]
Ask about
- Put a question; I want to ask you about your family. [pytać]
Ask after
- Enquire about someone's health: He aseked after your mother, who is sick in hospital. [pytać zazwyczaj o zdrowie]
Ask around
- Ask people for information or help: I asked around if anyone knew where the train station was. [ropytywać, pytać wokoło]
Ask for
- Request; He asked my for the book. [prosić]
Ask in
- To invite someone inside: She asked me in for coffee. [zaprosić do środka]
Ask out
- To invite someone for a date: Tom asked Mary out. They went to a café. [zaprosić na randkę]
Ask over
- To Invite someone home: I would like to ask our neighbours over tonight. [zaprosić]
Arrive at
- Come to an agreement: After a long discussion we finally manged to arrive at an agreement. [dojść do, osiągnąć]
- To Retreat: When the snake got closer he quickly backed away. [wycofać się]
Back down
- To abandon your position in an argument: He backed down as soon as he relized he was wrong. [wycofać się]
Back off
-To retreat: When the plane took off it was too late to back off. [wycofać się]
Back out (out of)
- To fail to keep an arrangement or promise: You can't back out now. [wycofać się]
Back up
- To make a copy of computer data: We backed up our system just in case. [kopiować dane]
- To support: or confirm: They backed up my story. [potwierdzać, wspierać]
- To backwards: Could you please back up your car? [wycofać]
Bail out
-Save, rescue: They bailed us out of the trouble. [wybawiać z kłopotu]
-To obtain someone's freedom by paying his/her bail: Having spent a day in jail, Tom was bailed out by his parents. [włpacić kaucję aby uwolnić kogoś z więzienia]
-Jump out of a plane because it is going to crash: He bailed out of the plane when it was about to crush. [wyskoczyć z samolotu]
Bail out on
-Stop supporting someone when they are in trouble: Susan bailed out on me when I needed her. [porzucić, opuścić]
Bail up (Australian)
-to force (one) to surrender
-the cry of challenge of a pioneer or person living in the bush
Bang about (around)
-Move in a place making a lot of noise: I could hear her banging around in her room. [robić hałas, przemieszczać się hałaśliwie]
Bang away
-Ask many questions rapidly: Reporters banged away at the president during the press conference. [zasypywać pytaniami ]
Bang on about
-Keep talking about something: They kept banging on about the homework. [gadać nonstop, nadawć]
Bang up
-Put someone in prison: He was banged up for stealing my precious socks:)[wsadzić do więzienia, British English]
-Damage badly: My car was banged up by a careless lady driver. [zniszczyć, poturbować]
Bank on
-Count or rely on: You can bank on it. [liczyć na coś, polegać na czymś].
Bank into
-To crush into. banging into trees is not a good idea. [walnąć, uderzyć w coś].
Barge in (into)
-Enter a place and interrupt: She's barged into the meeting as if she suddenly were on the Board od Directors. [wparować]
Bash away (on/at) British English
-To keep on working hard at something: She has been bashing away at her assignment all day. [ciężko pracować bez przerwy]
Bash on (with) (British English)
-To keep on working hard at something: She has been bashing away at her assignment all day. [ciężko pracować bez przerwy]
Bash in/down
-To destroy something by hitting it badly: The guy bashed the door down and enter the bar. [rozwalić, zniszczyć ]
Bash out
-To produce a lot but of low quality: He bashed out his essey and got a lousy mark. [odwalić robotę]
Bash up (British English)
-To attack verbally in a violent way: They bashed up the speaker for the remarks he made. [zaatakować, sprać]
Bawl out
-Scold or reprimend: The manager bawled him out for being impolite to the customer. [skrzyczeć, zbesztać]
Be along
-Arrive- nieformalnie : They should be along soon. [przybywać]
Be away
-Be elsewhere: They are away for two days. [wyjechać, być nieobecnym]
Be down
-Be depressed: She failed the test and has been down for a week. [mież depresję]
Be down with
-Be sick: Susan is down with flu. [być chorym an]
Be fed up
- Be bored, unhappy, or sick of something: I'm fed up with these phrasal verbs. [być znudzonym, mieć dosyć]
Be in
- Be in a particular place: Susan is in. Do you want to talk to her? [być w domu, pracy, etc, być obecnym]
- Arrive: They will be in soon. [przybywać]
Be in on
- Be involved in: He was in on this robbery. [być zaangażowanym w coś]
-To know about something: They both were in on our plan. [wiedzieć, być wtajemniczonym]
Be off
- Depart : They are off for the whole summer. [wyjechać]
- Have a particular amount of sth: They are well off. [mieć konkretną iość czegoś]
- Be not functioning (machines): The radio is off. [wyłączony]
Be on
- Be functioning ( machines): The TV is on. [włączony]
Be onto
- Pursue, be aware of someone's undefined nature: She is onto getting a job as an English teacher. [dążyć do, być świadomym czyjej prwawdziwej natury]
Be out
- Be absent: Is Mike out or still in his office? [być nieobecnym]
Be out of
- Have no more left: I'm out of money, yet still happy. [nie mieć]
Be out to
- Attempt: He is out to get you. You'd better watch out. [próbować]
Be snowed under
- Have too much work: She's been snowed under this paperwork for weeks. [być zasypanym pracą]
Be taken aback
- Be shocked or surprised: We were taken aback by the stupid look on his face. [być zaskoczonym, zdziwionym]
Be taken with
- Like something. She was taken with my charming smile. [lubić coś]
Be up
- Be out of bed: He's been up since 4. [być na nogach]
- When the time for something finishes or expires. The time is up! Please, stop writing and put away your pens. [skończyć się - o czasie]
Be up to
- Be good enough: She is up to this task. [nadawać się do]
- Doing something naughty or wrong: What are the kids up to this time? [broić, psocić]
Bear down on
- Move towards, approach rapidly: Hurricane Katrina bore down on Louisiana on Sunday. [zbliżać się gwałtownie, zbiżyć się]
Bear on
- Influence, affect: This information may bear on the case. [wpływać, oddziaływać]
Bear up
- Resist pressure: He bore up under the enormous strain. [opierać się]
Bear with
- Be patient: Could you bear with me for a moment? [być cierpliwym]
Beat down
- Strong sunshine. The sun is beating down terribly today. [o słońcu - mocno grzać]
Beat up
- Attack violently. He was beat up by a bunch of hooligans. [pobić]
Bed down
- Go to bed: They decided to bed down for the night. [iść spać]
Beef up
- Make something stronger: Security has been beefed up after the explotion. [wzmocnić]
Belt out
- Sing something loudly: She grabbed the mike and belted out a good chunk of "Hit Me with Your Best Shot". [głośno śpiewać]
Belt up
- Fasten your seatbelt : The kids belted up in their seats and waited for me to start the car. [zapiąć pasy]
Bend down
- Lower the top half of your body: I bent down to tie my shoe. [zginać się]
Bend over
- Lower the top part of your body: I bent over to tie my shoe. [wypiąć się, zginać się ]
Bend over backwards
- Do a lot to try to help or please someone. I bend over backwards for you and you don't appricate it. [starać się pomóc bardzo]
Black out
- Fall unconscious: When she blacked out for a second, she swang the car and almost hit the tree. [stracić przytomność]
- make a place black: Power shortages were the cause of the black out in the city. [zaciemnienie, zaciemniać]
Blank out
- Censor text: They blanked out the passage so that nobody could read it. [wyciąć, wymazać, zasłonić]
- Erase from memory: I blanked this out off my memory. [wymazać z pamięci]
Blare out
- Make a loud sound: The radio blared out an awful punk music. [wydzierać się, ryczeć]
Blast off
- Leave the ground: The racket blasted off and was on its way to the Moon. [odpalać, startować]
Blast out
- Make a loud sound: The radio blared out an awful punk music. [wydzierać się, ryczeć]
Blast for
- Criticize, scold: He blasted me for coming late for work. [krytykować, opieprzać]
Blast away
- Blow up: This house will be blasted away the next day. [wysadzać]
Blaze away
- Fire a gun repeatedly; The gunman started to blaze away at the police. [strzelać]
Blaze up
- Become angry; She blazed up at the very thought of going to school. [rozwścieczyć się]
Blaze with
- Shine brightly; She blazed with diamonds around her neck. [błyszczeć]
Blaze all over (across)
- Make news widely known; The story was blazed across all TV channels. [ropowrzechniać]
Bliss out
- Be extremely relaxed and happy; They could finally bliss out in their garden. [wypocząć]
Block in
- Park a car and obstruct another car; He blocked me in for 15 minutes. [zatarasować, zaplokować]
- Shade or fill in: Mary bloked in the shade of the city. [naszkicować]
Block off
- Obstruct an exit to prevent people from leaving. The police block off this section of the road. [zagradzać, blokować]
Block out
- Try not think about or feel something because it is upsetting: He tried to block out the accident permanently. [wymazać, zablokować]
Block up
- Fill a space so that nothing can pass: They block up our way to the garage. [zablokować]
Blow down
- When the wind forces something to fall. The man was blown down by the wind. [powalić, zdmuchnąć]
Blow on
- Spend money; I blew lots of cash on this game. [przepuścić pieniądze].
Blow out
- Extinguish candles, matches: Tommy blew out the candles when everyone was singing "Happy Birthday". [zdmuchiwać].
Blow over
- When a scandal gets forgotten; Our argument blow over rather fast. [przemijać]
Blow up
- Explode; The bomb blew up so suddenly but fortunately nobody was hurt. [wybuchać]
Blurt out
- Say something quickly without thinking: She blurted out all our secrets. [wypaplać]
- Get stucked: We bogged down in a number of problems. [utknąć]
Bog in (into)
- Eat enthusiatically; After they served the chocolate cake, we could finally bog into what we liked the most. [zajadać się]
Bog off
- Get lost [spadaj]
Boil down
- Simplify, reduce to the essentials; It all boils down to whether we should build the road or not. [sprowadzać się do]
Boil over
- When a hot liquid spills out of a container; Look1 We let the soup boil over. [wykipieć]
- When people lose their tempers and things get nasty; The CEO boiled over about the lost contract. [unieść się, wkurzyć się]
Boil up
- Feel a negative emotion strongly; My blood started to boil up in me. [gotować się, wrzeć]
Bone up on
- Study hard; We have been boning up on maths all night. [kuć]
Book in (into)
- Check in at a hotel. We booked into the hotel in the morning. [zameldować się]
- Make reservation; I booked him in the hotel. [zarezerwować pokój]
Book up
- Reserve; The play is booked up. [zarezerować, wykupić]
Boot up
- Start a computer, Boot up you computer and we see what programs you have. [butować, włączyć]
Boss about (around)
- Use excessive authority to control people; She bossed everyone around in the office. [rządzić kimś]
Bottle away
- Store up; I keep that all bottled away in a deep dark corner of my being. [przechowywać]
Bottle out
- Lack courage to do something, Mr Green has indeed bottled out of taking on the Beeb. [stchórzyć]
Bottle up
- Not express your feelings, This hate is bottled up inside my heart. [skrywać, zamykać w sobie]
Bottom out
- Pass the lowest point and start rising; The recession has finally bottomed out. [odbić się od dna]
Bounce into
- Force someone, They bounced me into this game and I lost a lot of money. [popędzać]
Bounce back
- Recover, She bounced back after the break up. [pozbierać się]
Bounce off
- Test ideas, We bounced our ideas off all our friends to see their opinions. [sprawdzać , testować pomysły]
Bowl over
- Surprise someone greatly; Fans were not quite bowled over. [wywracać, wprawić w podziw, zadziwiać]
Box in
- Prevent something from moving; The truck boxed us in for two hours. [zablokować]
Box up
- Pack things in boxes to move them; We have to box all these products up and ship them immediately. [zapakować]
Branch out
- Move into a different area of business, etc; The company has branched out into computer business. [poszerzać działalność]
Break away
- Run away, The prisoner decided to break away at midnight. [wyzwalać się, uciekać]
- Leave an organisation, party; [wyłamywać się, odłączać się]
Break down
- End negotiations unsuccessfully, The talks have broken down. [załamywać się, kończyć się niepowodzeniem]
- Start crying; She broke down in tears when she heard the test results. [załamywać się]
- Stop working, The TV has broken down and now we have to read books. [psuć się]
Break in
- Go into a building to steal something; The burglers broke into the house and stole all my debts:) [włamywać się]
- Interrupt something; She broke in with hher comments. [wtrącać się]
- The car's motor has to be broken in duriing the first 1000 miles. [docierać]
Break off
- Break a piece from something, Be careful or you breake off the handle! [odłamać]
- End a relationship, She broke off after two months. [zerwać]
Break out of
- Escape, The prisoner has broken out of jail and been remaining at large for several weeks. [uciekać]
Break through
- Pass a barrier or obstacle, I want to break through this wall, using my head. [przebić się]
Break up
- Break into many pieces, He broke up the vase and denied doing it. [rozbić]
- Close an educational institution for the holidays; The school broke up for the summer break.
- Finish a relationship; We will have to bbreak up because we are a total mismatch. [rozstać sie, zrywać]
Breeze along
- Move easily and quickly, We were breezing along the river when the boss spotted that we were not in the office. [przemykać, pędzić]
Breeze in (into)
- Enter a place quickly; She breezed into office unnoticed. [wpadać, przemykać]
Breeze through
- Pass easily, succeed; Sylwia breezed through the test and was just smiling. [przemknąć]
Bring about
- Make something happen, This brought about a big change in my life. [wywoływać]
Bring around
- Persuade or convince someone; She brought me around on this issue. [przekabacić, przekonać]
- Get someone talking about something, I finally brought the conversation around to the subject of real estate. [kierować rozmowę na jakiś temat]
Bring back
- Cause someone to remember; This brings back a lot of good memories. [przywodzić na myśl]
- Return; I brought up the book you gave mme. [zwracać]
Bring down
- Make a government, institution fall, How ATM fraud nearly brought down British banking. [obalać]
- Make something cheaper, The new act is expected to bring the prices down. [obniżać]
Bring forth
- Produce something, make it known or visible; The campaign has brought forth a tide of negative anecdotes. [przynosić, wnosić]
Bring forward
- Make something happen earlier than originally planned, The meeting was brought froward by three days. [przyśpieszyć termin]
Bring in
- Earn; This job can bring in a lot of money. [przynieść]
- Ask someone to do a job, We will bring in the best experts to fix this problem. [sprowadzać, zatrudniać]
Bring on
- Cause something to happen, This situation is brought on by our inability to stabilize the production. [powodować]
Bring out
- Release or publish, This book will be brought out in June. [publikować]
- Cause to show, appear; Difficulties make bring out the worst in people. [wyzwalać]
Bring round
- Make someone wake up from unconsciousness, She was brought round by our doctor five minutes after she passed out. [cucić]
Bring up
- Mention; They have brought up the subject of homelessness in the city. [poruszać}
- Raise a child; We were brought up in the South of Poland. [wychowywać]
- Vomit;
Brush aside
- Ignore, refuse to pay attention to; She brushed this topic aside and moved on to what she wanted to discuss. [ignorować, pomijać milczeniem, odsuwać na bok ]
Brush off
- Ignore, pay little attention; She brushed him off as usual. [ignorować, odprawić z kwitkiem ]
Brush up
- Improve a skill quickly; I have to brush up my English skills. [odświeżać]
- Become very excited. They are bubbling over with excitement. [tryskać np entuzjazmem]
Bubble under
- Likely to be successful soon; "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong bubbled under in 1967-68. [dobrze rokujący]
Budge up
- Move to make space for someone; Could you budge up a bit? [posunąć się, przesunąć się]
Buff up
- Clear, clean or make something shine; They've buffed the car up so it looks like a mirror now. [wypolerować]
- Improve; It was I who buffed up the Wikipedia. [polepszyć]
Buff up on
- Improve your knowledge; You will have to buff up on math over night. The test is tomorrow. [polepszyć]
Build on
- Use a base as a starting point;; Planck satellite will build on Nobel-prize-winning science. [budować na ]
Build in (into)
- Make sth a part of sth else; The modem is built into the motherboard. [wbudować, wmontować]
Build up
- Develop over a period; You have to build up you writing skills if you want to become a writer. [rozwijać, wzmacniać]
- Increase; The traffic is building up. Wee'd better take a different route. [wzrastać, wzmagać się]
Bulk out
- Make something bigger or thicker; The book is bulked out with a dossier of texts by Gorgias and Plato. [wypełnić, powiększyć]
Bump into
- Meet by chance; I bumped into Tom the other day. [wpaść na kogoś]
Bump off
- Kill; He was bumped off by a fellow gangster. [zabić]
Bump up
- Increase; The prices of oil will slightly bump up this year. [wzrastać]
Bunk down
- Go to bed: We bedded down at 10. [iść spać]
Bunk off
- Not go to school when you should; I bunked off school for eight days in a row to sit and watch TV. [wagarować]
Buoy up
- Make someone feel cheerful; His support buoyed her up during the crisis. [podtrzymywać na duchu]
Burn down
- Burn completely; The old church has burnt down to the ground. [spalić się doszczętnie]
Burn off
- Remove by burning or similar process; I think that burning off the old paint before putting on a new one is a good idea. [usunąć za pomocą ognia]
Burn out
- Lose enthusiasm and energy; I feek totally burnt out after this performance. [wypalać się]
Burst into
- Start doing sth suddenly; After looking at my CV, she burst into laughing. [wybuchać]
- Enter suddenly and noisily; He burst intto the office like a canon. [wtargnąć]
Butt in
- Interrupt, She was always butting in on our conversations. [wtrącać się]
Butter up
- Praise or flatter someone excessively; He buttered up the potential candidates with plenty of flattery. [schlebiać, podlizywać się]
Buy into
- Accept an idea, I bought into the scheme hoping to get some profits out of it.
Buy off
- Pay someone to stop them causing trouble; They wanted to buy her off so that she doesn't make any trouble. [przekupić]
Buy out
- Buy somebody's share in a company; Microhard will buy out all their potential competitors. [wykupić]
Buy up
- Buy all of something; They decided to buy up the entire orange juice market. [wykupić]
Buzz with
- Be full of sth (thoughts): The whole office was buzzing with rumours about their affair. [szumieć]
Buzz about (around)
- Move quickly around a place: She's been buzzing around trying to find the book. [krzątać się]
Buzz off
- Leave somewhere: We're buzzing off. Wanna come with us? [spadać, uciekać]
Buzz off!
- Go away (imperative): [spieprzaj, spadaj]
Call after
- Name someone after somebody else
Call back
- Return a phonecall
Call for
- Demand
- Go to collect something
- Telephone for something
- Go and collect someone to take them out
- Require
Call forth
- Make something happen
Call in
- Get someone to come and do a job
- Stop and visit
Call off
- Cancel
- Order someone to stop attacking
Call on
- Ask for help
- Visit
- Challenge
- Ask someone to do something, especially to speak in public. (Formal)
Call up
- Summon someone for military service
- Telephone
Calm down
- Stop being angry or emotionally excited
Cancel out
- Have an opposite effect on something that has happened, taking things back to the beginning
Care for
- Like
Carried away
- Get so emotional that you lose control
Carry forward
- Include a figure in a later calculation
- Make something progress
Carry offf
- Win, succeed
- Die of a disease
Carry on
- Continue
Carry on with
- Have an affair
Carry out
- Perform a task
- Food bought from a restaurant to take away
Carry over
- Continue past a certain point
Carry through
- Complete successfully
Cart off
- Take someone away, usually under arrest or to prison
- Take something away, especially if stealling or without permission
Cash in
- Convert shares, bonds, casino chips, etc, into money
Cash in on
- Benefit or make money on something, especially if done unfairly
Cash out
- Illegally access a bank account or credit card and steal money
Cash up
- Count all the money taken in a shop or business at the end of the day
Catch on
- Become popular
- Finally understand what is going on
Catch up
- Get work, etc, up to date.
Cater for
- To provide what is necessary
Cater to
- To provide what is needed, often seen negatively
Cave in
- Collapse
- Stop resisting or refusing
Chalk out
- To cut a line of cocaine
Chalk up
- To achieve something good
Chalk up to
- Explain the reason for a problem
Chance upon
- Find something by accident
Change over
- Change a system
Charge up
- Put electricty into a battery
Charge with
- Accuse somebody of a crime
Chase up
- Ensure that someone remembers to do something
Chat up
- Talk to someone you are sexually interested in to get them interested in you
Cheat on
- Be sexually unfaithful
Cheat out of
- Get money from someone under false pretences
Check by
- Visit a place to check something
Check in
- Register on arriving at a hotel or at the airport
Check into
- Register on arriving at a hotel or at the airport
Check off
- Mark something on a list as done
Check out
- Pay the bill when leaving a hotel
- Die
Check out of
- Settle up and pay before leaving a hotel
Check over
- Check something very carefully
Cheer on
- Encourage
Cheer up
- Be less unhappy
Chew on
- Thinks about something carefully before deciding
Chew out
- Criticize someone angrily
Chew over
- Think about an issue
Chew up
- Cut into small pieces with your teeth
- Damage something inside a machine
Chicken out
- Be too afraid to do something
Chill out
- Relax
Chime in
- Contribute to a discussion
Chip away at
- Gradually reduce something to make it less powerful, effective, etc
Chip in
- Contribute some money
- Contribute to a discussion
Chop down
- Fell or cut down a tree
Chop up
- Cut into small pieces
Chuck up
- Vomit, be sick
Churn out
- Produce, usually quickly or in large amounts without much regard to quality
Clag up
- Make something sticky
Clam up
- Be quiet, refure to speak
Clamp down on
- Restrict or try to stop something
Claw back
- Get money back
- Retake possession with difficulty
Clean out
- Tidy up thoroughly and throw away unwanted things.
- Cause someone to spend all their money
Clean up
- Tidy and clean
Clear out
- Tidy up thoroughly and throw away unwanted stuff.
Clear up
- Cure or recover from an infection
- Tidy up
Click through
- Open an advertisement on the Internet
Climb down
- Accept that you are wrong and change your position
Clog up
- Block, slow movement right down
Close down
- Close a shop, branch or business permanently
Cloud over
- Get very cloudy
Clown about
- Behave stupidly or waste time
Clown around
- Behave stupidly or waste time
Cock up
- Ruin or spoil something
Colour (Color) up
- Blush
Come about
- Happen, occur
Come across
- Find by accident
- Agree to have sex with someone
- The way other people see you
Come apart
- Break into pieces
Come before
- Appear in court charged with a crime or offence
Come by
- Visit
- Acquire
Come down
- Rain
- Travel
Come down on
- Criticise heavily
Come down with
- Fall ill
Come forth
- Appear
Come forth with
- Provide information
Come from
- Country or town where you were born
Come in
- Arrive for flights
- Place or ranking in a competition, etc.<
- Receive news
Come into
- Be important or relevant
- Inherit
Come into use
- Start being used
Come off
- When something breaks off
- Be successful
Come off it
- I don't believe what you're saying; used as an imperative
Come on
- Encouragement
- Start an illness
- Start functioninng (machines, etc)
Come out
- A secret is revealed
- Be published or otherwise available to the public
- Disappear when washed
- Let people know that you are lesbian or gay
- When the sun appears
Come out in
- Have a rash or similar skin problem
Come over
- Feel strange
Come round
- Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic
- Change your opinion
Come through
- Arrive (messages and information)
- Communicate an emotion
- Produce a result
Come through with
- Provide something needed
Come to
- Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic
- Result in
Come up
- Appearr
- Rise (the sun)
Come up against
- Encounter problems or difficulties
Come up with
- Think of a solution, excuse, etc.
Come upon
- Find by chance
Conjure up
- Create a picture or memory in someone's mind
- Create something without many resources
Conk out
- Fall fast asleep
- Suddenly breakdown or stop working
Cool down
- Get cooler
- Become calm
Cop it
- Get into trouble
Cop off
- Leave work or school early
- Kiss, pet or have sex with someone
Cop out
- Choose an easy alternative
Cotton on
- To work out the truth
Could do with
- Need or want something
Count in
- Include or involve
Count on
- Depend, rely
Count out
- Exclude
Count up
- Add
Cozy up
- Make yourself comfortable
Cozy up to
- Make yourself popular with someone
Crack down on
- Use more authority than usual
Crack on
- Continue doing something with energy
Crack up
- Have a nervous breakdown
- Have bad reception on a mobile phone
- Burst out laughing
- Damage a car bbadly
Crank out
- Produce a lot of something fast
Crank up
- Inject non-medical drugs
- Start a machine, originally with a handlle
- Increase, make something bigger
Crash out
- Sleep at someone's house because you are too tired, drunk, etc. to leave
- Fall asleep
Creep out on
-- To do the same activity for a very long time
Crop up
- Appear unexpectedly
Cross off
- Delete, remove from a list
Cross out
- Put as line through some writing to show it is wrong
Cry off
- To cancel an arrangement
Cry out
- Shout because you are in pain
Cut back
- Reduce
Cut back on
- Reduce expenditure
Cut down
- Consume less
- Shoot
Cut down on
- Reduce
Cut it out
- Stop your unfair or unreasonable behaviour
Cut off
- Disconnect
- Isolate or make inaccessible
Cut out
- Exclude
- When an engine or motor stops
- Cut a picture or similar from a magazine, etc
Cut out on
- Let down, snub
Dash off
- Leave somewhere quickly
- Do something quickly, especially writing
Dawn on
- Finally realise or understand something
Die away
- Become quieter or inaudible (of a sound)
Die down
- Decrease or become quieter
Die for
- Want something a lot
Die off
- Become extinct
Die out
- Become extinct or disappear
Dig in
- Start eating greedily
Dig into
- Reach inside to get something
Dig up
- Find something that is supposed to be secret
Dine out
- Have dinner outside your home
Dine out on
- Tell a story repeatedly that is well received
Dip in
- Put something in a liquid for a short time
Dip into
- Read parts of a book, but not all
- Take money out of your savings
Disagree with
- Make someone feel sick or ill
Dish out
- Serve food
- Give something, usually when you shouldn't
- Criticise, when you can't take criticism in return
Dish up
- Serve food
Dive in
- Start doing something, usually without planning
- Start eating
Dive into
- Reach inside something quickly
Divvy out
- Divide, share
Divvy up
- Divide, share
Do away with
- Abolish, get rid of
Do out of
- Cheat somebody out of something that is rightfully theirs
Do up
- Close or fasten clothes, etc.
- Repair and renovate
Do without
- Manage without something
Doze off
- Fall asleep
Drag on
- Be unnecessarily long
Draw back
- Retreat, move backwards
Draw down
- Reduce levels
- Get funding
- To deplete by consumption or heavy spending
Draw in
- Get dark earlier
- Arrive at a station (for trains)
Draw into
- Get involved in something unpleasant
Draw on
- Pass slowly (time)
- Inhale smoke from a cigerette, cigar, etc
Draw out
- Make something continue longer than needed
- Make a shy person more outgoing
Draw up
- Prepare a contract
- When a vehicle stops
Dream of
- Not think or consider
Dream up
- Invent something, have an idea
Dredge up
- Discover things about someone's past
Dress down
- Dress casually
- Scold
Dress up
- Dress very smartly
Drill down through
- Get to the bottom of something, get detailed data
Drill into
- Repeat something many times to make someone learn it
Drink up
- Finish a drink
Drive away
- Force an animal or someone to leave a place
Drive back
- Repulse, force back
Drive by
- Do domething out of a car
Drive off
- Drive away from a place
Drive out
- Force someone to leave a place
Drive up
- Make something increase
Drone on
- Talk boringly for a long time
Drop by
- Pay a brief visit
Drop in
- Visit without having made arrangements
Drop out
- Quit a course
Drum into
- To make someone learn or believe something by constant repetition
Drum out
- Force someone out of their job or position
Drum up
- Increase support or interest
Duck out of
- Avoid doing something
Duff up
- Beat or hit someone repeatedly
Dumb down
- Reduce the intellectual level of something in search of popularity
Dwell on
- Spend a lot of time on something
Dwell upon
- Spend a lot of time on something
Ease off
- Reduce pressure
Ease up
- Relax, calm down
Eat away
- Destroy slowly
Eat in
- Eat at home
Eat into
- Use something valuable when you don't want to
Eat out
- Eat in a restaurant
Eat up
- Eat all of something
- Consume
- Consume something you don't want to be consumed
Ebb away
- Disappear gradually
Edge out
- Gradually push someone or something out of their position
Edge up
- Approach slowly
Egg on
- Encourage
Eke out
- Make something like money last as long as possible
Embark on
- Start a project or venture
Embark upon
- Start a project or venture
Empty out
- Empty something completely
- Remove some things or everything from a container
End in
- Finish a certain way
End up
- Become or do something unplanned
End up with
- Get as a result of something
Enter for
- Join or enter a competition
Enter into
- Become involved in or accept
Eye up
- Look carefully at someone
Face off
- Confront
Face up to
- Accept an unpleasant truth
Faff about
- Behave indecisively
Faff around
- Behave indecisively
Fall back
- Retreat
Fall back on
- Be able to use in an emergency
Fall behind
- Make less progress
Fall down
- Fall on the ground
- Have a weak point
Fall for
- Be attracted to somebody, fall in love
- Believe a lie or a piece of deception
Fall in
- Collapse
Fall off
- Decrease
Fall out
- Argue and be on bad terms with someone
- Lose hair
Fall over
- Fall on the ground
Fall through
- Be unsuccessful
Farm out
- Give or contract work to someone else
Fart about
- Waste time doing silly things
Fathom out
- Understand something
Fatten up
- Give an animal a lot to eat to make it fat
Feed off
- Eat a food as part of an animals diet
- Use something to your advantage
Feed on
- Grow stronger
- Consume in an animal's diet
- Give someone a particular food
Feed up
- Give someone a lot of food to restore their health, make them bigger, etc
Feel up
- Touch sexually, grope
Feel up to
- Feel capable of doing something
Fend for
- Take care of yourself or someone with help from other people
Fend off
- Resist something successfully
- Push an attacker away
Ferret out
- Search and discover something
Fess up
- Confess, admit something reluctantly
- Give
Fess up to
- Confess, admit reluctantly to something
Fiddle about
- Waste time doing silly things, or doing things unsuccessfully
Fiddle around
- Waste time doing silly things, or unsuccessul things
- Make small movements with your hands
Fiddle away
- Waste time
Fight back
- Defend yourself, resist an attack
- Try to control and emotion and keep it hidden
Fight it out
- Struggle to see who wins, both by arguing or fighting
Fight off
- Fight an attacker and force them back
- Resist an illness or emotion
Figure on
- Plan, expect
Figure out
- Find the answer to a problem
File away
- Put a document in the correct place for storage in a filing system
Fill in
- Complete a form
- Substitute someone at work
Fill in for
- Substitute
Fill in on
- Give someone information
Fill out
- Complete a form
Fill up
- Fill something completely
Filter in
- Move into a lane of traffic without making other cars stop
Filter out
- Remove something unwanted
Find out
- Discover
Finish off
- Finish completely
Fink on
- Give away secrets about someone
Fink out
- Fail to keep a promise, arrangement, etc
Fire away
- Ask questions
Fire off
- Send quickly, angrily or many (letter, emails, etc)
- Shoot, fire a gun (usually repeatedly)
Fire up
- Start a computer
- Excite, become excited
Firm up
- Make things clearer in a negotiation or discussion
Fish for
- Try to get some information or to get someone to say something
Fish out
- Remove something from a bag, pocket, etc
- Remove from water, such as the sea, rivers, etc
Fit in
- Get on in a group of people
- Have enough time or space for something
Fit into
- Become part of
Fit up
- Frame someone- make them look guilty of something they haven't done
- Provide equipment
Fix up
- Make an arrangement
Fizzle out
- End in an unsuccessful way
Flag down
- Signal at a vehicle to get it to stop
Flag up
- Raise an issue, or highlight its importance
Flake out
- Fall asleep from exhaustion
Flare out
- Get angry suddenly
Flare up
- When trouble suddenly appears
Flesh out
- Add more details or information
Flog off
- Sell something cheaply to get rid of it
Fly about
- Circulate (rumours, etc)
Fly around
- Circulate (rumours, etc)
Fly at
- Attack
- Criticise or shout angrily
Fly by
- When time appears to move quickly
Fly into
- Change emotion quickly
Focus on
- Concentrate
Fold up
- Make a sheet of paper smaller
Fool around
- Not be serious
- Be unfaithful
Freak out
- Become very disturbed or angry
Freshen up
- Wash quickly and improve appearance
- Add more alcohol to a glass before it is empty
- Quickly improve the appearance of something
Front for
- Represent someone, especially when covering illegal or wrongful activities
Front off
- Confront someone and let them know you are prepared to fight
Front onto
- Face (of a building)
Front out
- Face up to someone, withstand criticism
Front up
- Appear somewhere for a short time
- Advance cash for something
Frown on
- Disapprove
Gag for
- Want something a lot
Gang up
- Form a group against something or someone
Gang up on
- Harass, bully
Gear up
- Get ready for a busy period
Geek out
- Talk at length about computing
Get across
- Communicate successfully
Get ahead
- Progress
Get ahead of
- Move in front of
Get along
- Have a good relationship
Get along with
- Have a good relationship with someone
Get around
- Become known
Get around to
- Finally manage to do something
Get at
- Criticise
- Mean
Get away
- Escape
- Go on holiday or for a short break
Get away with
- Not get caught doing something wrong
Get back
- Return
Get back at
- Take revenge
Get back to
- Respond to a contact
Get behind with
- Be late paying instalments for something.
Get by
- Have just enough money to live on
Get down
- Make someone depressed
Get down to
- Start work
Get in
- Arrange for someone to do a job
- Arrive (train, plane, etc.)
- Arrive home
- Enter a car or taxi
Get off
- Escape punishment
- Leave a bus, train, etc.
Get off with
- Have casual sex with
Get on
- Continue doing something
- Enter a bus, train, plane, etc.
- Make progress
Get on with
- Have a good relationship
Get out of
- Avoid doing something you dislike
- Leave a car, van, etc.
Get over
- Recover
Get over with
- Do something unpleasant rather than delaying it any more
Get round (around) to
- Finally manage to do something
Get round (or around)
- Persuade someone
Get through
- Contact
- Consume
- Finish
Get through to
- Make someone understand
Get to
- Annoy, irritate
- Arrive
Get together
- Meet socially
Get up
- Get out of bed
- Organise
Get up to
- Do something wrong or naughty
Give away
- Entrust your daughter to her husband through the marriage ceremony
- Tell a secret
Give back
- Return something you've borrowed
Give in
- Stop doing something because it's too hard or requires too much energy
- Submit homework, etc.
Give of
- Contribute without expecting anything in return
Give off
- Emit pollution or something else unpleasant
Give onto
- Open into a place, for a door or window
Give out
- Distribute
- Stop working
- Have no more of a supply
Give over!
- Stop doing something bad or annoying
Give up
- Stop doing something that had been a habit
Give up on
- Lose faith in or stop believing in something or someone
Give yourself up
- Surrender to the police or authorities
- Try to minimise the importance of something
Go about
- Deal with something
Go after
- Chase, try to get
Go against
- Lose a decision or a verdict of a court
Go ahead
- Proceed
Go along with
- Accept a decision or suggestion
Go back on
- Break a promise
Go by
- The passing of time
- Trust or depend on for correct information
Go down
- Decrease, get smaller
- Sink
- Sunset
- Go to prison
Go down with
- Fall ill
Go for
- Attack
- Be attracted to
- Choose, select
Go forth
- Leave a place
Go in
- Go to hospital for treatment, surgery, etc.
Go in for
- Enter a competition
Go into
- Discuss in some detail
- Enter a profession
Go off
- Explode (bomb), start ringing (alarm)
- Go bad
- Start to dislike
Go on
- Continue
- Happen
Go on about
- Talk too much
Go out
- Stops burning
Go out with
- Have a relationship with
Go over
- Look at something, revise
- Visit
Go through
- Experience
- Read again
Go through with
- Do or complete something you've agreed to
Go under
- Go bankrupt
Go up
- Rise
Go up to
- Approach
Go with
- Combine nicely
Go without
- Not have
Goof around
- Fool around, not be serious
Goof off
- Avoid or leave work
Goof up
- Mess, spoil
Grass up
- Report someone to a person in authority
Grey out
- Disable a function in a computer program, leaving it visible but not working
Grind away
- Keep working at something
Grind down
- Reduce or destroy someone's enthusiasm
Grind out
- Produce something with great difficulty
Grow into
- Grow to fit large clothes
Grow out of
- Grow too large for clothes
- Lose interest as you grow older or become more mature
Grow up
- Mature, become adult
Gun for
- Try to destroy an opponent
Hack around
- Waste time
Hack into
- Break into a computer system
Hack off
- Annoy
Hammer away at
- Work relentlessly
Hammer into
- Repeat something over a period of time to make someone remember it
Hammer out
- Negotiate and reach an agreement
Hand back
- Return
Hand down
- Pass on to the next generation
- Give a formal decision
Hand in
- Submit work for appraisal
Hand on
- Give to someone else
- Transmit knowledge to the next generation
Hand out
- Distribute
Hand over
- Give
Hang around
- Stay in a place
Hang on
- Wait
Hang out
- Spend time socially
Hang up
- End a phone call
Hang up on
- End a phone call with someone
Harp on
- Talk repeatedly about something
Have against
- Dislike, disagree or hold a grudge (Usually negative)
Have around
- Entertain someone in your home
Have down as
- Think of someone or something in a particular way
Have in
- Have a supply of something in a particular place
- Get someone to do some work
- Entertain people in your home
Have it away
- Have sex with someone, especially casual sex
Have it in for
- Hold a grudge
Have it off
- Have sex
Have it out with
- Discuss or argue an issue to improve a situation
Have off
- Take time off work
Have on
- Be wearing
- Have an electronic device switched on
- Have an arrangement
- Tease, deceive
- Be in possession at a particular time
- Know something about someone that could harm them
Have over
- Receive a guest
Have round
- Entertain someone in your home
Have up
- Make someone appear in court
Head for
- Move or travel towards
Head off
- Stop someone or force them to change direction
- Prevent something bad happening
- Leave somewhere to go to another place
Head out
- Go out
Head up
- Be in charge
Heat up
- Make food hot
Help out
- Give assistance
Hit back
- Attack or criticise
Hit for
- Get someone to pay or donate money
Hit it off
- Have a good relationship from the first time you meet a person
Hit it off with
- Like someone from the first time you meet them
Hit on
- Have an idea
- Talk to someone to try to attract them sexually
- Ask for money
Hit out at
- Respond angrily to criticism
Hit up
- Inject drugs
- Ask someone for some money
Hit up on
- Inject drugs
Hit upon
- Have an idea
Hit with
- Surprise someone with some information or news
Hold against
- Have a grudge against someone, or little respect
Hold back
- Not show emotion
- Prevent something moving forwards or progressing
- Not disclose information or make it public
Hold back from
- Not allow yourself to do something
Hold down
- Keep a job
- Stop someone or something from moving
Hold forth
- State your opinions about something, especially when talking for a long time and boringly
Hold off
- When bad weather doesn't appear
- Stop someone from attacking or beating you
Hold on
- Wait
- To hold tightly
Hold on to
- Hold tightly
Hold onto
- Keep as long as possible
- Hold tightly
- Hold tightly
Hold out
- Resist
- Hold in front of you
Hold out against
- Try to reject
Hold out for
- Wait for something better or refuse something now for something better in the future
Hold out on
- Not pay someone or give them information
Hold over
- Delay
- To continue something for longer than planned
Hold together
- Not break up
Hold up
- Delay when travelling
- Rob with violence or threats thereof
Hold with
- Accept (usually negative)
Home in on
- Target
Hone in on
- Target, focus
Hook up
- Meet someone
Hook up to
- Connect to a machine
Horse around
- Not be serious
Hound out
- Force someone out of a place, job, position, etc.
Hunker down
- Settle in a place as comfortably as possible to stay there
Hunt down
- Search for someone to punish or kill them
Hunt out
- Search until you find something
Hunt up
- Search for and manage to find something
Iron out
- Remove small problems or irregularities
Issue forth
- Come out of a place
Jack around
- Make trouble for someone, fail to keep promises
Jack in
- Quit, give up
Jack off
- Masturbate
Jack up
- Raise a car to be able to do mechanical work
- Inject illegal drugs
- Increase sharply
Jam on
- Apply or operate something forcefully
Jaw away
- Talk just for the point of talking rather than having anything to say
Jazz up
- Make something more interesting or attractive
Joke around
- Be funny, or try to
Jot down
- Make a quick note
Juice up
- Make something more exciting or perform better
Jump at
- Accept eagerly
Jump in
- Enter a conversation
Jump on
- Criticize, attack
Keel over
- Turn upside down
- Surrender, give in
- Fall to the ground
Keep around
- Keep something near you
Keep at
- Continue with something difficult
Keep away
- Don't allow someone near something
Keep back
- Maintain a safe distance
Keep down
- Not vomit
Keep from
- Control yourself, refrain
Keep in
- Not allow someone out
Keep off
- Not talk about
- Not tread on something
Keep on
- Continue
Keep out
- Not allow someone to enter
Keep to
- Stay within limits
Keep up
- Not let someone go to bed
Keep up at
- Continue, not quit
Keep up with
- Move at the same rate
- Stay up to date
Key in
- Enter numbers or information into a computer or electronic system
Kick about (around)
- Discuss
Kick around with
- Spend time with
Kick back
- Pay someone illegally as part of the price
- Resist
Kick down
- Break something with your feet
Kick in
- When a drug starts to take effect
- Break something with your feet
Kick off
- Start a game of football
- Die
- When trouble starts
- Argue, protest and refuse to co-operate
Kick out
- Expel
Kick up
- Cause trouble or pain
Knock about
- Beat someone
Knock down
- Demolish
- Hit and injure someone
Knock it off!
- Stop doing something annoying
Knock off
- Finish work for the day
Knock out
- Hit and make somebody unconscious
- Sell, distribute
Knock up
- Become or get someone pregnant.
- Play a bit before a match to get ready
Knuckle down
- Make a great effort
Knuckle under
- Submit to authority
Lap up
- Appreciate something
Large it up
- Have a good time when intoxicated
Lark about
- Behave in a silly way
Lark around
- Behave in a silly way
Lay down
- Establish rules or procedures
- Kill, murder
Lay into
- Criticise angrily
Lay off
- Make an employee redundant
Lay on
- Organise, supply
Lay out
- Spend money
Lead to
- Result in
Leak out
- Become public knowledge
Lean on
- Put pressure on someone to get them to do what you want
Leave on
- Not turn off
Leave out
- Not include
Let down
- Disappoint, fail to keep an arrangement
- Make clothes longer
Let in
- Allow someone to enter
Let off
- Not punish
Let on
- Tell a secret
Let out
- Allow to leave or go out
- Make a sound
- Make clothes bigger
Lie down
- Rest
Lie with
- Have the right to make a decision
Lift off
- Leave the ground- rocket or spaceship
Light up
- Light or start smoking a cigarette
- Illuminate
Lighten up
- Be less serious
Line up
- Arrange in a line
- Arrange something in a line
- Arrange events for someone
Listen out for
- Listen for a particular noise or sound
Live by
- Follow a belief system to guide your behaviour
Live down
- Stop being embarrassed about something
Live for
- Believe something is extremely important
Live in
- Live in the place where you work or study.
Live it up
- Have a good time by spending a lot of money
Live off
- Use money earned
Live on
- Use money for basic necessities
- Not be forgotten
Live out
- Stay somewhere until you die
- Fulfill an ambition or fantasy
- Not live at the place where you study or work
Live through
- Experience different times
Live together
- Have a relationship and live in the same place without marrying
Live up to
- Meet expectations or standards
Live with
- Accept something unpleasant
- Have a relationship and live in the same place without marrying
Load down
- Burden
Load up
- Take illegal drugs
- Fill a machine or vehicle
Load up on
- Consume a lot of something for a particular purpose
Lock up
- Close all doors, windows, etc.
Log in
- Enter a restricted area on a computer system
Log into
- Enter a restricted area of a computer system
Log off
- Exit a computer system
Log on
- Enter a computer system
Log out
- Exit a computer system
Look after
- Take care
Look back
- Think about the past
Look down on
- Have a low opinion of
Look for
- Try to find
Look forward to
- Wait for or anticipate something pleasant
Look in
- Make a quick visit
Look in on
- Visit briefly to see if everything's all right
Look into
- Research, investigate
Look on
- Watch something like a crime without helping
Look on as
- Consider, regard
Look out
- Be careful
Look over
- Inspect
Look round
- Inspect a house
Look to
- Expect, hope
Look up
- Consult a reference work (dictionary, phonebook, etc.) for a specific piece of information.
- Improve
- Find, trace an old friend
Look up to
- Respect
Look upon as
- Consider, regard
Luck out
- Be very lucky
Make do with
- Accept something less satisfactory because there's no alternative
Make for
- Head in a certain direction
Make into
- Change something into something else
Make it
- Arrive or get a result
Make it up to
- Try to compensate for doing something wrong
Make off with
- Steal
Make out
- Make a cheque payable to somebody
- Pretend
- Progress
- Kiss and pet
Make over
- Change appearance
Make up
- Stop being angry with someone
- Put on cosmetics
- Invent a story
Make up for
- Compensate
Make with
- Give (usually used as an imperative)
Mark down
- Give a student a lower grade for a particular reason
- Reduce the price of something
Mark down as
- Consider someone or something to be of a certain group, type, etc.
Mark off
- Tick, cross out or otherwise mark something to show that it has been dealt with
Mark out
- Draw lines to enclose an area
Mark out for
- Show promise for the future
Mark out from
- Stand out because of certain qualities
Mark up
- Increase the price of something
Marry in
- Marry someone of the same ethnicity, religion, etc
Marry out
- Marry someone of a different ethnicity, religion, etc
Mash up
- Crush something until it becomes a paste
- Mix sources of audio, video or other computer sources.
- Break or damage
Meet with
- Have something happen to you
Mess about
- Not be serious, not use something properly
Mess around
- Not be serious, play with something
Mill around
- Walk around without going anywhere
Mix up
- Confuse
- Make something lively
Monkey about (around)
- Not be serious
Mooch about (around)
- Spend time doing little or nothing
Mop up
- Resolve a problem
- Kill or capture the last few enemy soldiers after a victory.
- Eat a sauce with bread to finish it
- Remove a liquid that has been spilt
Mope about (around)
- Move around being miserable
Mount up
- Increase over time
Mouth off
- Speak angrily about something
Move on
- Change the subject or your job
- Make people move from a place
Mug up
- Study quickly, revise
Mug up on
- Study something quickly, revise
Mull over
- Think about an issue or problem
Muscle in
- Become involved in something when your involvement is not wanted
Muscle in on
- Become involved in something despite opposition to your involvement
Muscle into
- Become involved even though there is opposition to your involvement
Muscle out
- Use power, contacts, etc, to force someone out
Naff off
- Get lost, go away (used as imperative)
Nag at
- Repeatedly criticise someone verbally
Nail down
- Succeed in getting, achieve
- Understand fully
- Get full information from someone
Name after
- Give someone a name to remember another person
Nip off
- Go somewhere quickly
Nip out
- Go somewhere quickly
Nod off
- Fall asleep
Nose about (around)
- Look for something hidden or secret
Note down
- Write something short like a phone number for future reference.
Nut out
- Find an answer to a problem
Occur to
- Enter one's mind
Open up
- Start to talk freely about something
- Open a shop or business for the day
- Allow goods into a market
Opt for
- Choose
Opt out
- Choose not to be part of something
Owe to
- Be the reason for something
Own up
- Confess
Pack away
- Put something where it belongs
Pack in
- Stop doing something
- End a relationship
- Fill a venue
- Break down, stop working
Pack it in
- Stop doing something (used as an imperative)
Pack off
- Send someone away
Pack out
- Fill a venue
Pack up
- Stop doing something
- Finish work
- Break down, stop working
- Collect things and put them where you keeep them
Palm off
- Get someone to accept something that isn't undefined
- Pretent something is better than it is iin order to sell it
Pan out
- The way a situation develops
Paper over
- Try to conceal a problem without really fixing it
Pass around
- Give out to everybody there
Pass as
- Be believed to be something
Pass away
- Die
Pass by
- Go past without stopping
- Visit briefly
- Miss an opportunity
Pass for
- Be accepted as something, usually when not
Pass off
- Convince something that something is real
- Happen in a certain way
Pass on
- Give a message to someone
- Decline an invitation or opportunity
- Die
Pass out
- Faint, lose consciousness
Pass over
- Ignore someone and give a job, reward, etc, to someone more junior
Pass through
- Visit a place without stopping or only stopping briefly
Pass to
- Give ownership or responsibility to someone
Pass up
- Decline a chance
Patch up
- Fix or make things better
Pay back
- Repay money borrowed
- Take revenge on
Pay for
- Purchase
Pay into
- Deposit money
Pay off
- Completely repay a debt
- Produce a profitable or successful result
Peck at
- Eat very small amounts
Peg away
- Keep working at something
Peg down
- Fasten something to the ground
Peg it
- Die
Peg out
- Put washing outside to dry
- Die
Pencil in
- Make a provisional appointment
Perk up
- Feel better or happier, make someone feel better or happier
Peter out
- Lose impetus and stop
Phase in
- Introduce gradually
Phase out
- Remove gradually
Pick at
- Eat unwillingly
Pick off
- Target individuals to change a group
Pick out
- Choose
- Identify from a picture
Pick up
- Improve
- Learn quickly
Pig off
- Used to tell someone to get lost or leave you alone
Pig out
- Eat a lot
Pile up
- Accumulate
Pin down
- Get a fixed idea, opinion, etc, from someone.
Pine away
- Suffer physically because of grief, stress, worry, etc
Pipe down
- Be quiet (often as an imperative)
Pipe up
- To speak, raise your voice
Pitch in
- Work together to help achieve an objective
Play along
- Pretend to agree or accept something in order to keep someone happy or to get more information
Play around
- Be silly
Play at
- Pretend to be something
Play away
- Be sexually unfaithful when away from home
Play back
- Listen to or watch something you've recorded
Play down
- Try to make something seem less important
Play off
- Play a game to decide who the winner is
- Make people compete against each other so that you benefit
Play on
- Continue playing a sport though there might be a reason to stop
- Continue playing music
- Exploit a weakness
- Pun
Play out
- Progress, often till it finishes
- Pretend that something is real and reduce its effect
- Play something to the end
Play up
- Behave badly
Play up to
- Flatter someone
Play upon
- Exploit a weakness
Play with
- Touch and move something to occupy your hands
- Not eat much of a meal
- Consider something, but not seriously
Plead out
- Plead guilty to get a reduced sentence or fine
Plug in
- Connect machines to the electricity supply
Plump for
- Choose
Point out
- Make someone aware of something
Polish off
- Finish, consume
Polish up
- Improve something quickly
Pop in
- Visit for a short time
Pop off
- Talk loudly, complain
- Go out for a short time
Pop out
- Go out for a short time
Pop up
- Appear, like windows and boxes opening on a computer screen.
- Appear unexpectedly
Potter about (around)
- Spend time doing little things for pleasure
Pour down
- Rain hard
Pour forth
- Emerge from a place in large numbers
Prattle on
- Talk too much
Press ahead
- Continue with something
Press on
- Continue with something
Price up
- Charge more for something
Print out
- Make a hard copy of a computer document
Prop up
- Support something, both physically and financially, politically, etc.
Psych out
- Work out or anticipate someone's intentions
- Make someone less confident
Psych up
- Prepare someone mentally
Pull ahead
- Overtake, move in front
Pull apart
- Destroy an argument, theory, etc
- Stop people or animals fighting
- Make someone unhappy or upset
Pull away
- When a vehicle moves from a place
Pull down
- Demolish
Pull in
- When a train arrives at a station
- Attract
- Stop a car by the side off the road
Pull off
- Manage to do something difficult or tricky
Pull on
- Put clothes on
Pull over
- Stop by the side of the road
Pull up
- Slow and stop a car
- Inform someone that they are wrong
Push in
- Get in a queue without waiting
Put away
- Put something back in the correct place
- Put someone in prison
Put back
- Rearrange something for a later time
Put by
- Save for the future
Put down
- Kill an animal because it's old, ill, etc.
Put in
- Install
Put in for
- Make a request
Put off
- Postpone
- Stop liking something or somebody
Put on
- Get fat
Put out
- Broadcast
- Disturb or trouble someone
- Extinguish a cigarette, fire, etc.
Put through
- Connect someone by phone
Put towards
- Make a financial contribution
Put up
- Allow someone to stay at your house for a night or a few days.
- Increase prices, taxes, duties, etc.
Put up with
- Tolerate
Quieten down
- Fall silent
Rack up
- Acquire a lot of something
Rain down on
- Fall in large numbers
Rake it in
- Make a lot of money
Rake up
- Bring something back to people's attention
Ramp up
- Increase price, speed or power of something
Rat on
- Inform authorities about someone's wrongdoings
- Fail to keep a promise
Rat through
- Look for something hurriedly
Rat out
Ratchet up
- Increase
Rattle off
- Quote figures rapidly
Read off
- Read a list aloud for someone to write down
Read out
- Read aloud rather than silently
Read up on
- Research
Reckon on
- The minimum expected
Reel in
- Catch a fish on a line and pull the line to land
- Attract people, especially customers, to get them to do what you want them to
Reel off
- Quote statistics or facts rapidly
- Score a lot of points or win a lot of games one after the other
Reel out
- Unwind
Rein in
- Control someone or comething to stop them causing more trouble
Ring back
- Return a phonecall
Ring off
- Finish a phone conversation
Ring up
- Telephone
Rip off
- Charge excessively or obtain money unfairly
Roll back
- Retreat
- Reduce or remove
Roll in
- Arrive somewhere, especially if late
- Arrive in large numbers, for military vehicles
Roll on
- When something continues to happen
Roll on!
- Said when you can't wait for something nice in the future
Roll out
- Launch or introduce a new product, initiative, etc.
Roll up
- To appear in large numbers for an event
Roll up!
- An imperative used to attract people to a public event
Romp in
- Win easily
Romp through
- Do something easily or quickly
Room in
- To keep a mother and baby together after the birth
Root around
- Look in place to try to find something
Root for
- Support
Root out
- Look for and find
Root up
- Dig a plant out of the ground
Rope in
- Get somebody to help
Rough up
- Assault
Round off
- Finish something in a satisfactory manner
Row back
- Retreat from a position
Rub it in
- Emphasise how bad a situation is to make someone feel worse
Rule out
- Exclude a possibility
Run across
- Meet or find accidentally
Run away
- Escape from people chasing you
Run down
- Hit a pedestrian with a vehicle
- Lose energy or power
Run for
- Campaign for a position
Run into
- Cost
- Meet by accident
Run off
- Make photocopies
Run on
- Be powered by
Run out of
- Have none left
Run over
- Explain quickly
- Hit with a vehicle
Run through
- Practise a dramatic work like a play quickly
- Stab or wound deeply with a knife, sword, etc.
Rush into
- Do something too quickly
Sag off
- Not go to school or work, or leave early when you shouldn't
Sail into
- Criticise angrily
Sail through
- Pass easily, succeed
Sally forth
- Leave somewhere safe or comfortable
Sally out
- Leave somewhere safe or comfortable
Salt away
- Save money
Save on
- Reduce or avoid consumption to cut costs
Save up
- For money for a particular purpose
- Collect or store something for future use
Scare away
- Frighten someone some much that they go away
Scare off
- Make someone so frightened that he or she away
Scrape along
- Manage with little money
Scrape by
- Just manage to pass something
Scrape in
- Just get enough to succeed, pass or be accepted
Scrape into
- Be accepted somewhere, but only just
Scrape through
- Pass a test but only just
Scrape together
- Manage to collect enough of something you need, usually money
Scrape up
- Manage to collect enough of something you need, usually money
Screw around
- Waste time
Screw up
- Do badly or fail
See into
- Accompany someone into an office
See off
- Chase somebody or something away
- Go to the airport, station, etc., to say goodbye to someone
See out
- Accompany a guest to your front door when they are leaving your house
See through
- Continue with something to the end
- Realise someone is lying or being deceitful
See to
- Deal with something
Sell off
- Sell a business or part of it
- Sell something cheaply because you need the money or don't need it
Sell on
- Convince someone
- Buy something then sell it to someone else
Sell out
- Have no more of something left because it has been bought
- Lose all artistic integrity in return for commercial success
Sell up
- Sell a house or business to move somewhere or do something different
Send back
- Return something
Send for
- Ask someone to come and help
Send in
- Order people into a place to handle a problem
- Write to get information
Send off
- Expel a sports player from a match
- Post a letter
Send off for
- Order something by post
Send out
- Send something to a lot of people
Send out for
- Order takeaway food by phone
Set about
- Start doing something
Set aside
- Overturn a court verdict or decision
Set back
- Cost
Set forth
- State or outline an opinion
- Start a journey
Set in
- Change season noticeably
Set off
- Explode a bomb
- Ring an alarm
- Start a journey
- Counterbalance a debt
Set out
- Display, show
- Start a journey
Set up
- Prepare equipment, software, etc., for use
- Start a company
Settle down
- Start living a fixed and routine life
Settle for
- Accept whatever is available
Settle in
- Get used to
Settle on
- Agree
Settle up
- Pay a debt
Sex up
- Change information to make it more attractive to the reader or listener
Shack up
- Live with someone when you are in a relationship.
- Live somewhere temporarily
Shake down
- Search
- Extort or cheat money from someone
Shake off
- Get rid of an illness
Shell out
- Spend money on something, especially when you think it's too expensive
Shoot back
- Return quickly
Shoot off
- Leave promptly and quickly
Shoot out
- Go out for a short time
Shoot up
- Increase quickly
Shop around
- Look around for the best price, quality, etc.
Show around
- Take someone to a place to show them certain parts
Show in
- Take someone into an office or other room
Show off
- Behave in a way so as to attract attention
- Display something you are proud of
- Make the qualities of another thing more apparent
Show out
- Take someone to out of a room or building
Show over
- Take someone around a site
Show round
- Take someone to a place to show them certain parts
Show through
- When a feeling can be seen despite attempts to conceal it
Show up
- Attend something or arrive somewhere
- Become clear or apparent
- Make someone feel embarrassed or ashamed
Shut away
- Imprison or remove someone's freedom
Shut down
- Close a business, shop, etc.
- Turn a computer off
Shut in
- Prevent someone from leaving
Shut off
- Close, prevent access
Shut out
- Exclude
Shut out of
- Exclude someone from an activity, etc
Shut up
- Stop talking or making noise
- Close for a period of time
Shut yourself away
- Withdraw from company
Shy away from
- Avoid doing something because you lack confidence
Side with
- Support someone
Sift through
- Examine a lot of things carefully
Sign away
- Give away legal or property rights
Sign for
- Write a signature on behalf on someone
Sign in
- Register in a hotel
- Open a computer program that requires a name and password
- Write your name when entering a place
Sign into
- Open a particular computer program that requires a name and password
Sign off
- End a message
- Close a claim for unemployment benefit
- Stop doing something to leave
- Give someone a letter to be away from work
Sign on
- Open a claim for unemployment benefit
- Agree to participate
- Start broadcasting
- Employ
Sign on with
- Sign a document joining or agreeing to something
Sign out
- Close a computer program that requires a name and password
- Sign something to show you have borrowed something
Sign out of
- Close a particular computer program that requires a name and password
Sign up
- Give your name to do something
- Subscribe
Sign with
- Make a contract with
Sink in
- Slowly come to be understood
Sit about
- Sit and do nothing, especially when you should be working
Sit around
- Sit idly, doing nothing
Sit back
- Wait for something to happen without making any effort
- Relax in a chair
Sit by
- Not try to stop something
Sit down
- Help someone to sit
Sit for
- Pose for an artist or photographer
- Look after children while their parents are out
Sit in
- Occupy a building to protest about something
Sit in for
- Take on someone's responsibilities while they are absent
Sit in on
- Attend as an observer
Sit on
- Be on a committee
- To handle somebody firmly who behaves impertinently, conceitedly
- Hold information back or keep it secret
Sit out
- Not take part
Sit over
- Eat or drink slowly
Sit through
- Stay till the end of something dull
Sit with
- Reconcile different positions
Size up
- Assess a situation or person carefully.
- Make something bigger or produce bigger products
Skive off
- Avoid doing work or other duty
Slag off
- Criticise heavily
Sleep off
- Sleep in order to recover from excess alcohol, drugs, etc.
Sleep on
- Think about something
Sleep over
- Spend the night at someone else's house
Sleep through
- Not wake up
Slip out
- Leave discreetly
Slip up
- Make an error
Slope off
- Leave somewhere without letting others know
Slow down
- Reduced speed
Slow up
- Slow the progress of something
Smack of
- Appear to have a negative quality
Smash down
- Demolish or break something down
Smash in
- Break something by hitting it repeatedly
Smash up
- Destroy, break into many pieces
Snap off
- Break a piece off something
Snap up
- Get, acquire or buy something quickly
Sniff around
- Look around to see how good something is or to try to find something better
Sniff at
- Disapprove or be scornful
Sniff out
- Find something be smell (usually for dogs)
- Find out information, especially when people don't want anyone to know
Sober up
- Stop showing the effects of alcohol or drugs
Soldier on
- Continue even when things get difficult
Sort out
- Resolve a problem
Sound off
- To express your opinions forcefully
Sound out
- Check what someone thinks about an issue, idea, etc.
Spark off
- Cause something, usually unpleasant, to happen
Spark up
- Light a cigarette or joint
Speak out
- Talk openly and freely
Speak up
- Talk more loudly
Spell out
- Explain something in great detail
Spit it out
- An informal way of telling someone to say something they are unwilling to say
Spit out
- Say something angrily
Split up
- Divide into groups
- Finish a relationship
Spur on
- Encourage someone to continue
Squeeze up
- Get more people into a space than normal or comfortable
Stamp out
- Get rid of something
Stand about (around)
- Spend time in a place waiting or doing nothing or very little
Stand aside
- Leave a position so that someone else can take it
Stand back
- Keep a distance from something
- Try to understand something by taking a different perspective
Stand by
- Support someone
- Be ready and waiting for something to happen
Stand down
- Leave a job or position so that someone else can take it
- Finish being asked questions in a court
Stand for
- Accept or tolerate behaviour
- The words represented by certain initials
Stand in for
- Substitute someone temporarily
Stand out
- Be extraordinary and different
Stand up
- Move from a sitting or lying down to a vertical position
Stand up for
- Defend, support
Stand up to
- Keep your principles when challenged by an authority
- Resist damage
Start off
- Make something start
- Begin life, a career or existence
- Begin a journey
- Make someone laugh
Start off on
- Help someone to start a piece or work or activity
Start on
- Begin to use or consume
- Criticise angrily
Start on at
- Criticise or nag
Start out
- Begin a journey
Start out as
- Begin life, existence or a career
Start out to
- Intend, plan
Start over
- Begin something again
Start up
- Open a business
- Begin, especially sounds
- When an engine starts working
- Make an engine work
- Sit or stand upright because someone has surprised you
Stay in
- Not go out
Stay on
- Remain longer than anticipated
Stay out
- Not go home
Stay over
- Stay overnight
Stay up
- Not go to bed
Steer clear of
- Avoid
Step aside
- Leave a job or position so that someone else can take over
Step back
- Look at something from a different perspective
Step down
- Leave a job or position so that someone can take over
Step forward
- Offer help
Step in
- Get involved by interrupting something
Step on it
- An imperative used to tell someone to go faster, especially when driving
Step out
- Leave a place for a very short time
Step up
- Increase
Stick it to
- Criticise someone
Stick to
- Not change
Stick up for
- Support or defend
Stir up
- Make trouble for someone else
Stitch up
- Sew something so that it is closed
- Finalise a deal
- Cheat someone or make them look guilty when they aren't
Stop around (round)
- Visit someone for a short time.
Stop back
- Return somewhere
Stop behind
- Stay somewhere when other people leave
Stop by
- Visit somewhere briefly or quickly
Stop in
- Stay at home
- Visit briefly
Stop off
- Break a journey
Stop out
- Be out late, especially when you are expected home
Stop over
- Stay somewhere when on a journey
Stop up
- Stay up late
- Fill or block something
Storm off
- Leave a place angrily
Storm out
- Leave a place angrily
String along
- Deceive someone for a long time
- Accompany someone because you haven't got anything better to do
String out
- Make something last as long as possible
String together
- Put words together into a coherent text
String up
- Hang somebody
Stub out
- Extinguish a cigarette
Stumble across
- Find something accidentally
Stumble upon
- Find something accidentally
Stump up
- Pay for something
Suck in
- Become involved in something unpleasant
Suck into
- Become involved in something unpleasant
Suck up to
- Ingratiate yourself with someone
Sum up
- Summarise
Summon up
- Get the energy or courage to do something
Suss out
- Come to understand
Swear by
- Have great confidence in
Sweep through
- Pass easily, succeed
- Move quickly through
Syphon off
- Take business, support or votes from someone
- Divert money illegally
Tack on
- Add something that wasn't planned
Tack onto
- Add or attach something that wasn't planned to something
Tail away
- Become silent or inaudible
Tail back
- Form a traffic jam
Tail off
- Become silent or inaudible
- Decrease
Take after
- Lookk like, resemble
Take apart
- Take something to pieces
Take aside
- Get someone alone to talk to them
Take away
- Remove
Take back
- Make someone nostalgic
- Retract a statement, admit that something was wrong
Take down
- Make notes or write down in full
- Remove
Take in
- Absorb information
- Deceive
- Make clothes smaller
Take it
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- Accept criticism
Take it out on
- Abuse someone because you're angry
Take off
- Make great progress
- Reduce the price of an item
- When a plane departs or leaves the grounnd
Take on
- Allow passengers on a ship or plane
- Assume a responsibility
- Employ
Take out
- Borrow aa library book
- Borrow money from a bank or other official lender
- Extract or remove
- Go out sociallyy with someone, especially a date
- Obtain insurance
- Kill, murder
Take over
- Assume control of a company or organisation
Take to
- Make a habit of something
Take up
- Fill or occupy time or space
- Make clothes shorter
- Start a new hobby, pastime, etc.
Talk back
- Respond rudely to a person in authority
Talk down
- Try to make something sound less important
Talk down to
- Talk in a way to show your superiority not communicate
Talk into
- Persuade someone to do something
Talk out of
- Persuade someone not to do something
Talk over
- Discuss
Talk through
- Guide someone through an issue
Talk up
- Make something appear more important or significant than it really is
Tap for
- Get money off someone
Tap into
- Use or exploit a plentiful resource for your benefit
Tap off with
- Have sex
Tap out
- Play a rhythm quietly
Tap up
- Approach a footballer illegally to get them to change teams
Tear apart
- Disturb or upset greatly
Tear at
- Pull or try to pull something to pieces
Tear away
- Stop someone doing something unwillingly
- Remove a surface violently
Tear down
- Demolish
Tear into
- Criticise strongly or angrily
Tear off
- Remove part of a form or letter using your hands, not scissors
- Leave at high speed
- Remove with fforce
Tear up
- Rip into pieces
- Destroy
Tell apart
- See a difference between two things
Tell off
- Chide; talk angrily to someone about something they've done wrong.
Tell on
- Report someone to an authority
Think over
- Consider something carefully
Think through
- Consider all the possibilities and outcomes of a situation
Think up
- Create or invent something, especially when lying
Throw away
- Discard something when no longer needed
Throw out
- Get rid of
Throw up
- Vomit
Tick away
- Pass (of time)
Tick by
- Pass (of time)
Tick off
- Annoy
- Scold
Tick over
- Continue working, but without improving
- Operate but without moving (engines)
Tide over
- Use something carefully so as not to finish it
Tidy up
- Put things in the correct place in a room
Tie up
- Tie or fasten something securely
Tighten up
- Make something more secure or function better
Tip off
- Secretly inform the police or authorities
Tip over
- Spill, make something fall on its side
Tire of
- Get bored of something
Tire out
- Make someone exhausted
Toddle off
- Leave, go home
Tone down
- Make something sound more moderate
Tool up
- Provide equipment
- Arm yourself or somebody
Top off
- Finish something in a special way
Top out
- Stop increasing, reach the highest point
Top up
- Refill something that isn't empty yet
Touch down
- Land (planes)
Touch for
- Borrow money
Touch off
- Cause a problem to occur
Touch on
- Mention
Touch up
- Improve the appearance of something
- Touch someone in a sexual way
Touch upon
- Mention
Toy at
- Pretend to think about or think about in a casual way
Toy over
- Think about something
Toy with
- Not eat much of a meal
- Consider something, but not very seriously
- Move or play with something to occupy yoour hands
Track down
- Find after a long search
Trade down
- Sell something and replace it with something cheaper
Trade in
- Exchange something old as part of the price of something new
- Leave your wife or husband to marry someone younger
Trade off
- Bargain, make a deal or compromise
- Accept something you don't really want to get something you do want
Trade on
-Exploit, use something to your advantage
Trade up
- Buy larger or more expensive items
- Leave your wife or husband and marry sommeone better looking, richer, etc
Trade upon
- Exploit, use to your advantage
Trickle down
- Pass benefits from economic expansion through the economy to the less fortunate
Trot out
- Make a statement (meant negatively)
Trump up
- Charge or accuse someone falsely
Try back
- Phone back
Try for
- Make an attempt to get something
Try it on
- Provoke someone by being annoying or behaving badly
- Attempt to get something, usually by deceit, without great hopes of success
Try on
- Put clothes on to see if they fit
Try out
- Test
- Test something to see if you like it or want to buy it
Try out for
- Be tested for a sports team
- Watch or listen to a TV or radio show
Tune in to
- Watch or listen to a TV or radio programme
Tune out
- Ignore, not pay attention
Tune up
- Improve the performance of a machine or engine
- Tune a musical instrument before playing
Turn against
- Stop liking and start disliking
Turn away
- Not allow someone to enter a place
Turn down
- Reduce volume, temperature, etc.
- Reject an offer, invitation, etc.
Turn in
- Go to bed
Turn into
- Become
Turn off
- Stop a machine
Turn on
- Cause someone to feel attraction or pleasure
- Start a machine
- Attack
Turrn out
- Produce
- Produce an unexpected result
- Stop a light
- Attend
Turn over
- Give too the authorities
Turn to
- Try to get help
- Take up a habit
Turn up
- Appear
- Increase volume, temperature, etc.
Type up
- Type a finished version
Use up
- Finish or consume all of something
Veg out
- Relax, do nothing
Venture forth
Wade in
- Start something or get involved, often without thinking or to forcefully
- Attack
Wade into
- Become embroiled or involved in a situation, without thinking or planning usually
Wade through
- Get to the end of something with difficulty
Wait about
- Wait somewhere doing nothing
Wait around
- Wait somewhere doing nothing
Wait behind
- Stay somewhere after other people have left
Wait in
- Stay at home because someone is going to visit
Wait on
- Serve people in a restaurant
- Sell goods in a shop
- Provide someeone with everything they need or want
- Wait for a result before being able to make a decision
Wait out
- Wait till something has finished, usually something unpleasant
Wait up
- Not go to bed because you are waiting
Wait up!
- Stop (imperative)
Wait upon
- Provide someone with what they require
- Wait for a result before being able to make a decision
Wake up
- Stop sleeping
Walk away from
- Leave something you don't like
Walk away with
- Win easily
Walk in on
- Enter somewhere unexpectedly and see something
Walk into
- Get work without effort
Walk off
- Go for a walk to reduce the effects of an illness or bad feeling
Walk off with
- Win easily
- Take something without permission or steeal
Walk on
- Continue walking
Walk out
- Leave work because of a dispute with the management
- Leave a place angrily or because you aree not satisfied
Walk out on
- Leave somebody angrily
Walk up
- Go to someone
Want out
- Want to leave a relationship or arrangement
Warm up
- Do exercises before a sport
Wash away
- When floods or waves completely remove a structure, building, etc.
Wash down
- Drink in order to swallow something solid
Wash out
- Rain so heavily that an event has to be cancelled
Wash over
- Suddenly experience a strong emotion
Wash up
- Clean everything used to prepare food and eat it
- When something in the sea or river is left on the shore or bank
Watch out
- Be careful (imperative)
Watch out for
- Be careful of something
Watch over
- Keep an eye on something or someone to check that there's no trouble
Water down
- Make something weaker and less effective
Wear away
- Erode, remove gradually
Wear down
- Make something weaker
Wear off
- Stop having an effect
Wear out
- Use something until it stops working
Weed out
- Remove, get rid of
Weigh in
- Have a certain weight (in sports like boxing)
- Enter an argument forcefully
Weigh up
- Assess
Whip out
- Remove quickly
Whisk away
- Take to another place quickly
White out
- Use correction fluid to cover a mistake in a written text
Wimp out
- Not be brave enough to do something
Wind down
- Relax
Wind up
- Close a company because it's unprofitable
- Tighten the spring in a watch or clock tto make it work
- Irritate someone or increase their stress level, especially if done deliberately
Winkle out
- Find or get something that takes a great deal of effort
Wipe out
- Make someone very tired
- Kill all of a population, make extinct
Wire up
- Make electrical connections
Wise up
- Stop being stupid
Word up
- Give someone information, advice
Work off
- Exercise to remove stress or weight
Work on
- Improve or develop
Work out
- End nicely
- Find the answer or solution
Wrap up
- Cover in paper
- Dress warmly
- Finish
Write down
- Make notes
Write in
- Send a letter to a TV station, etc.
Write off
- Destroy a car in an accident
Write out
- Write something completely
Write up
- Make complete written version
Yield to
- Surrender
Zero in on
- Direct or focus attention on
- Head for, move towards
Zero out
- Cut off funding for a project
- Reduce to zero, cancel, remove
Zip around
- Move quickly
Zip by
- Pass quickly
Zip up
- Keep quiet
Zone out
- Not pay attention
- Dissociate yourself from a situation
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Zonk out
- Fall asleep
Zoom in
- Focus more closely
Zoom in on
- Focus more closely
Zoom off
- Go somewhere quickly
Zoom out
- Focus less closely
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