My phrasal verbs

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My Phrasal’s glossary Phrasal

Definition

Shake off

Get rid of

Get into

Become intersted in

End up with

Finish with

Dream up

Think of a new idea or project

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Feel up to

Have sufficient energy or strength

Show off

Display your skills so you can be admired

Build up

Increase

Take up

Start a hobby or a new activity


Burn off

Remove through physical activity

Put off

Make you not like or want to do something

Turn out

If something turns out a particular way, it happens in that way or has the result or degree of success indicated.

Look back

to think about something that happened in the past


Look out for

to try to notice someon e or something

Carry on with

If you carry on doing something, you continue to do it.

Put on

When you put on clothing or make-up, you place it on your body in order to wear it

Come across

to behave in a way that makes people believe that you have a particular characteristic

Grow out of

When a child grows out of an item of clothing, they become so tall or big that it no longer fits them properly.


Go down to

to move down to a lower level or place

Take up

If you take up an activity or a subject, you become interested in it and spend time doing it, either as a hobby or as a career.

Hear about

to listen to someone until they have said everything they want to say


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