SOME USEFUL PHRASAL VERBS

Break down: collapse; stop working
Break into: enter by force
Break out : start, appear suddenly
Break up : disperse, come to an end

Bring about: cause to happen
Bring up: educate, rear; call attention to

Call off: cancel
Call on: make a short visit; invite a person to speak
Call up: phone; call people for military service

Carry on: continue
Carry out: execute (a plan, an order,etc.)

Catch up (with): reduce the distance between oneself
and those in front; do the work that has
not yet been done.

Come across: find or meet by chance
Come into: inherit money
Come around / to: regain consciousness

Cut down on: reduce consumption of
Cut off: stop or interrupt

Do way with: abolish; get rid of

Drop in: visit someone
Drop out: withdraw from

Fall out: quarrel with
Fall through: come to nothing

Fill in: complete (a form, etc.)

Find out about: discover (the truth, etc.)

Get along / get on with: be friendly with
Get away: escape
Get in; arrive; be elected
Get on with: continue
Get over: recover (from illness, etc.)
Get up: rise

Give away: reveal (a secret); give something
Without charge
Give up: abandon; stop

Go by: form an opinion or a judgment from
Go for: attack
Go into: investigate
Go off: explode
Go on: continue to happen
Go over: study, review carefully
Go with: be in harmony with (colours, etc.)

Hold up: delay; stop

Keep at: persist
Keep away: avoid going near
Keep off: avoid going on
Keep on: continue
Keep up: maintain (speed, etc.)

Knock out: eliminate; cause to be unconscious

Leave off: stop

Let down: fail to support
Let off: excuse

Look after: take care of
Look down on: despise; consider oneself superior to
Look for : search for
Look into: investigate
Look up: search for words, etc. in a dictionary

Make for: go in the direction of
Make out: write out; manage to see, read, etc.; pretend
Make up: use cosmetics; invent (a story, etc.)

Pass on / pass away: die

Pull down: demolish
Pull up: come to a stop

Put away: store; save
Put off: postpone
Put out: extinguish
Put up with: tolerate, bear patiently

Ring off: end a phone conversation
Ring up: telephone

Be run down: be in poor health
Run into: meet somebody by chance
Run out of: have no more supplies of
Run down: knock down (of a vehicle)

See about: deal with; arrange
See somebody across: help somebody to cross (a road, etc.)
See somebody off: accompany and say good bye to someone
See to: put right

Set off / set out: begin a journey, etc.
Set up: establish (a business, etc.)

Sit up: go to bed later than usual

Stand by somebody: give moral support to somebody
Stand for: represent

Take after: look like, resemble
Take in: deceive (by a trick)
Take off: leave the ground
Take over: acquire; take control (of a business, etc.)
Take to: come to like; get into a habit
Take up: begin doing (as a hobby)

Try on: see if it fits
Try out: use something so as to test it

Turn down: reject; reduce (volume, etc.)Turn up: arrive; increase the v