1. Act out: Perform something with
actions and gestures.
Act up: Behave badly or
strangely.
Add on: Means to include in a
calculation.
Aim at: Point a weapon at
someone or something; to
target.
Ask after: Enquire about
someone’s health, how life is
going.
Ask around: Ask a number of
people for information of help.
Ask in: Invite somebody into
your house.
Ask out: Invite someone for a
date.
Back away: Retreat or go
backwards.
Back down: Withdraw your
position or proposal in an
argument.
Back into: Enter a parking area in
reverse gear.
Back up: Make a copy of
computer data.
Ball up: Confuse or make things
complicated.
Bargain down: Persuade
someone to drop the price of
something they are selling.
Bash in: Break, damage or injure
by hitting.
Bash out: Write something
quickly without much
preparation.
Be away: Be elsewhere; on
holiday, etc.
Be down: To be depressed.
Be fed up: Be bored, upset, or
sick of something.
Bear down on: To move
towards.
Bear out: Confirm that
something is correct.
Bear up: Resist pressure.
Bear with: To be patient.
Beat down: The sunshine is
strong and makes the air
extremely hot.
Beat up: Attack violently.
Belong with: Be in the correct or
appropriate location with other
items.
Block in: Park a car and obstruct
another car.
Block off: to close a road, path,
or entrance so that people
cannot use it.
Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal Verbs
2. Book in: Sign an official book and
check in at a hotel.
Break down: To stop
functioning.
Call off: To cancel something.
Call on: This has two mean: It is
referred to visit someone, or to
use someone’s or something’s
knowledge.
Cap off: Finish or complete,
often with some decisive action.
Carry forward: Make something
progress.
Carry off: When you win or
succeed.
Carry on: To continue doing
something.
Come up with: To think a new
idea.
Come across: To meet or find
somebody/someone by chance
(accidently)
Come forward: Volunteer
information about something,
like a crime.
Cut in: Interrupt someone when
a person is speaking.
Die away: Become quieter or
inaudible (of a sound).
Die down: Decrease or become
quieter.
Do over: Repeat a job.
Fill up: To become completely
full.
Find out: To discover something.
Get on: To have a good
relationship.
Get out: To leave.
Give up: To stop doing
something.
Go on: To continue doing
something or being in a
situation.
Go out: Have a date.
Grow up: Get older.
Hit on: Have an idea.
Hold back: To decide not to do
something as well as not to show
your feelings, often because of
fear.
Key to: Plan things to fit or suit
people or situations.
Key up: Make someone excited
or nervous.
Knock off: Finish work for the
day.
Line up: Arrange events for
someone.
Link up: To connect or join.
Look forward to: Wait with
pleasure for something to
happen.
3. Make it up to: Try to
compensate for doing
something wrong.
Make out: To be just able to see
or hear something.
Nail down: Succeed in getting,
achieve.
opt into: Choose to be a member
or part of something.
opt out: Choose not to be part of
something.
Pass away: Die.
Pass by: Go past without
stopping.
Put on: Cover something with
clothes/make up/paint.
Put off: Postpone, move
something later time.
Put up
Run across: To move or run from
one side to the other.
Sit down: To change from a
standing to a sitting position.
Set up: Start something (e.g., a
business or an organization)
Stand up: To rise from sitting or
lying down to a vertical position.
Stop over: To visit someone for a
short period of time.
Stress Out: To feel worried,
nervous, or anxious.
Take after: To look or behave
like an older family member.
Take up: Start doing something,
especially a hobby or sport.
Think up: Use your imagination
to create a plan, idea, solution,
etc.
Track Down: To locate someone
or something that is difficult to
find by searching or looking for
information in several different
places.
Use up: To use all of something.
What out: Used to tell someone
to be careful.
Work (something) out: To come
up with a solution or a
compromise with someone.
