My phrasal verbs glossary

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VERB SNAKE OFF

GET INTO

END UP WITH

DREAM UP

FEEL UP TO

SHOW OFF

BUILD UP

TAKE UP

DEFINITION ROUGHLY WITHDRAWING A PERSON FROM HIMSELF OR REJECTING AN ACTION OR PROPOSITION WITH CUNNING OR DETACHMENT. SUBMERGE, ABSTRACT OR CONCENTRATE.

MAKE A THING COME TO AN END, OR MAKE THE LAST PART OF THIS THING. CREATE, DESIGN, DEVISE OR PRODUCE SOMETHING NEW THAT DID NOT EXIST BEFORE. IT IS A PERCEPTION THAT THE BODY HAS WHEN IT RECEIVES CERTAIN STIMULI PROUDLY DISPLAYING A QUALITY OR SOMETHING YOU HAVE OR DO. MAKING A MATERIAL WORK, GENERALLY THE ONE THAT IS OF GREAT SIZE, IS CARRIED OUT ACCORDING TO A COMPLEX WORK TECHNIQUE AND CONSISTS OF A LARGE NUMBER OF ELEMENTS. MAKE A THING THAT DID NOT EXIST

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BURN OFF

BEFORE, DID NOT HAPPEN OR DID NOT COME INTO EXISTENCE, SUFFER OR BE DONE, OR DO THE FIRST PART OF THIS THING. BURN A THING.

PUT OFF

TO LEAVE FOR A MOMENT OR DATE AFTER THOSE INITIALLY SET THE COMPLETION OF A THING.

TURN OUT

MAKE IT STOP OR STOP HAVING FIRE OR LIGHT, OR MAKE A THING STOP BURNING OR PRODUCE LIGHT.

LOOK BACK LOOK BACK

LOOK OUT FOR

IS THE CARING

ACT

OF

CARRY ON WITH

CARRY ON WITH

PUT ON

STAINING OR FILLING [A PERSON OR A THING] WITH SOMETHING.

COME ACROSS

GO PERPENDICULARLY FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER OF A LINE.


GROW OUT OF

GROW OUT OF

GO DOWN TO

GO DOWN TO

TAKE UP

TO MAKE A THING THAT DID NOT EXIST BEFORE, DID NOT HAPPEN OR WAS NOT MADE COME INTO EXISTENCE, HAPPEN OR BE DONE, OR DO THE FIRST PART OF THIS THING. THE ACTION OF PAYING ATTENTION TO SOMETHING THAT IS CAPTURED BY THE AUDITORY SENSE.

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