Phrasal Verbs - Star Wars Episode IV - a New Hope

Phrasal Verbs - Star Wars IV
Andrew Ernest Ritz
Langtech
April 6, 2016
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Phrasal Verbs
Episode IV - A New Hope

act on
verb –1. (5) pursue, follow up on, act on – (carry further or advance;
”Can you act on this matter soon?”)

be well
verb –. (1) be well – (be healthy; feel good; ”She has not been well
lately”)

believe in
verb –. (24) believe in – (have a ﬁrm conviction as to the goodness
of something; ”John believes in oat bran”)

belong to
verb –. (34) belong to, belong – (be a part or adjunct; ”the uniform
looks like it belonged to a museum collection”; ”These pages don’t
belong”)

close up
noun –. (3) closeup – (a photograph taken at close range)
verb –1. close up, close, fold, shut down, close down – (cease to
operate or cause to cease operating; ”The owners decided to move
and to close the factory”; ”My business closes every night at 8 P.M.”;
”close up the shop”)
adv –. (2) close up, at close range – (very close; ”without my reading
glasses I can hardly see things close up”; ”even ﬁring at close range
he missed”)

come along
verb –1. (7) appear, come along – (come into being or existence, or
appear on the scene; ”Then the computer came along and changed
our lives”; ”Homo sapiens appeared millions of years ago”)

come back
noun –1. (2) rejoinder, retort, return, riposte, replication, comeback,
counter – (a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or
critical one); ”it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher”)
verb –1. (3) come back, return – (be restored; ”Her old vigor
returned”)

come in
verb –1. (44) enter, come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move
into – (to come or go into; ”the boat entered an area of shallow
marshes”)

come on
noun –1. bait, come-on, hook, lure, sweetener – (anything that
serves as an enticement)
verb –1. (9) come on, come out, turn up, surface, show up – (appear
or become visible; make a showing; ”She turned up at the funeral”; ”I
hope the list key is going to surface again”)

come out
verb –1. (33) come on, come out, turn up, surface, show up –
(appear or become visible; make a showing; ”She turned up at the
funeral”; ”I hope the list key is going to surface again”)

come with
verb –. (6) attach to, accompany, come with, go with – (be present
or associated with an event or entity; ”French fries come with the
hamburger”; ”heart attacks are accompanied by distruction of heart
tissue”; ”ﬁsh usually goes with white wine”; ”this kind of vein
accompanies certain arteries”)

conjure up
verb –. (5) raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down,
arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth – (summon into action or
bring into existence, often as if by magic; ”raise the specter of
unemployment”; ”he conjured wild birds in the air”; ”call down the
spirits from the mountain”)

cover for
verb –. cover for – (provide an excuse or alibi for someone so as to
cover up guilt; ”I won’t lie and cover for you”)

dig up
verb –1. (2) excavate, dig up, turn up – (ﬁnd by digging in the
ground; ”I dug up an old box in the garden”)

do it
verb –. sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love,
sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have
intercourse, have it away, have it oﬀ, screw, fuck, jazz, eﬀ, hump, lie
with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk – (have sexual
intercourse with; ”This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm”;
”Adam knew Eve”; ”Were you ever intimate with this man?”)

eat at
verb –. erode, gnaw, gnaw at, eat at, wear away – (become ground
down or deteriorate; ”Her conﬁdence eroded”)

fall apart
verb –1. fall apart, go to pieces – (lose one’s emotional or mental
composure; ”She fell apart when her only child died”)

fall in
verb –1. (3) collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder –
(break down, literally or metaphorically; ”The wall collapsed”; ”The
business collapsed”; ”The dam broke”; ”The roof collapsed”; ”The
wall gave in”; ”The roof ﬁnally gave under the weight of the ice”)

figure out
verb –. (6) solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work – (find
the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of;
”did you solve the problem?”; ”Work out your problems with the
boss”; ”this unpleasant situation isn’t going to work itself out”; ”did
you get it?”; ”Did you get my meaning?”; ”He could not work the
math problem”)

find out
verb –1. (33) determine, find, find out, ascertain – (establish after a
calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; ”find the
product of two numbers”; ”The physicist who found the elusive
particle won the Nobel Prize”)

get away
noun –1. pickup, getaway – (the attribute of being capable of rapid
acceleration; ”his car has a lot of pickup”)
verb –1. (8) escape, get away, break loose – (run away from
conﬁnement; ”The convicted murderer escaped from a high security
prison”)

get back
verb –1. (4) win back, get back – (recover something or somebody
that appeared to be lost; ”We got back the money after we
threatened to sue the company”; ”He got back his son from the
kidnappers”)

get behind
verb –. (1) drag, trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind, drop
back – (to lag or linger behind; ”But in so many other areas we still
are dragging”)

get in
verb –1. (13) enter, come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move
into – (to come or go into; ”the boat entered an area of shallow
marshes”)

get into
verb –1. (11) get into, tangle with – (get involved in or with)

get it
verb –1. (4) catch on, get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton
on, twig, get it – (understand, usually after some initial diﬃculty;
”She didn’t know what her classmates were plotting but ﬁnally
caught on”)

get moving
verb –. get cracking, bestir oneself, get going, get moving, get
weaving, get started, get rolling – (start to be active; ”Get cracking,
please!”)

get on
verb –1. (2) get along with, get on with, get on, get along – (have
smooth relations; ”My boss and I get along very well”)

get out
verb –1. (31) exit, go out, get out, leave – (move out of or depart
from; ”leave the room”; ”the fugitive has left the country”)

get to
verb –1. (4) reach, make, get to, progress to – (reach a goal, e.g.,
”make the ﬁrst team”; ”We made it!”; ”She may not make the
grade”)

go about
verb –. (5) set about, go about, approach – (begin to deal with;
”approach a task”; ”go about a diﬃcult problem”; ”approach a new
project”)

go ahead
noun –1. green light, go-ahead – (a signal to proceed)
verb –. (6) go ahead, plow ahead – (proceed (with a plan of action);
”He went ahead with the project”)

go in
verb –. (10) enter, come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move into
– (to come or go into; ”the boat entered an area of shallow marshes”)

go on
noun –1. lout, clod, stumblebum, goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump,
gawk – (an awkward stupid person)
verb –1. (44) continue, go on, proceed, go along, keep – (continue a
certain state, condition, or activity; ”Keep on working!”; ”We
continued to work into the night”; ”Keep smiling”; ”We went on
working until well past midnight”)

go with
verb –1. (10) attach to, accompany, come with, go with – (be
present or associated with an event or entity; ”French fries come with
the hamburger”; ”heart attacks are accompanied by distruction of
heart tissue”; ”ﬁsh usually goes with white wine”; ”this kind of vein
accompanies certain arteries”)

hang on
verb –1. (4) append, tag on, tack on, tack, hang on – (ﬁx to; attach;
”append a charm to the necklace”)

have got
verb –. (16) have, have got, hold – (have or possess, either in a
concrete or an abstract sense; ”She has 1,000 in the bank”; ”He has
got two beautiful daughters”; ”She holds a Master’s degree from
Harvard”)

have on
verb –. (8) wear, have on – (be dressed in; ”She was wearing yellow
that day”)

hold tight
verb –. cling to, hold close, hold tight, clutch – (hold ﬁrmly, usually
with one’s hands; ”She clutched my arm when she got scared”)

hold up
noun –1. (1) armed robbery, heist, holdup, stickup – (robbery at
gunpoint)
verb –1. (4) hold, support, sustain, hold up – (be the physical
support of; carry the weight of; ”The beam holds up the roof”; ”He
supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam”; ”What’s
holding that mirror?”)

hunt down
verb –. (2) hunt, run, hunt down, track down – (pursue for food or
sport (as of wild animals); ”Goering often hunted wild boars in
Poland”; ”The dogs are running deer”; ”The Duke hunted in these
woods”)

let go
verb –1. (6) let go of, let go, release, relinquish – (release, as from
one’s grip; ”Let go of the door handle, please!”; ”relinquish your grip
on the rope–you won’t fall”)

live in
verb –. (1) live in, sleep in – (live in the house where one works; ”our
babysitter lives in, as it is too far to commute for her”)

lock in
verb –1. (1) lock in, seal in – (close with or as if with a tight seal;
”This vacuum pack locks in the ﬂavor!”)

look around
verb –. (13) look around – (look about oneself; ”look around to see
whether you can ﬁnd the missing document”)

look at
verb –1. (17) consider, take, deal, look at – (take into consideration
for exemplifying purposes; ”Take the case of China”; ”Consider the
following case”)

look like
verb –. (59) look like – (bear a physical resemblance to; ”She looks
like her mother”)

look out
noun –1. lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter,
scout, picket – (a person employed to keep watch for some
anticipated event)
verb –1. (7) watch, look out, watch out – (be vigilant, be on the
lookout or be careful; ”Watch out for pickpockets!”)

loosen up
verb –1. (1) unstuﬀ, loosen up – (cause to become unblocked; ”The
medicine unstuﬀed my nose in minutes!”)

lose it
verb –. break down, lose it, snap – (lose control of one’s emotions;
”When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it
completely”; ”When her baby died, she snapped”)

make it
verb –1. (7) survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it
– (continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); ”He survived the
cancer against all odds”)

move in
verb –1. (4) move in – (occupy a place; ”The crowds are moving in”)

move into
verb –. (12) enter, come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move into
– (to come or go into; ”the boat entered an area of shallow marshes”)

open up
verb –1. (2) open, open up – (cause to open or to become open;
”Mary opened the car door”)

pen up
verb –. pen up, fold – (conﬁne in a fold, like sheep)

pick up
noun –1. (2) pickup, pickup truck – (a light truck with an open body
and low sides and a tailboard)
verb –1. (22) pick up, lift up, gather up – (take and lift upward)

play back
noun –1. (1) playback – (the act of reproducing recorded sound; ”he
was allowed to hear the playback of his testimony”)
verb –. (1) play back, replay – (reproduce (a recording) on a
recorder; ”The lawyers played back the conversation to show that
their client was innocent”)

plug in
noun –. circuit board, circuit card, board, card, plug-in, add-in – (a
printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer
to increase the computer’s capabilities)
verb –. (2) plug in, plug into, connect – (plug into an outlet; ”Please
plug in the toaster!”; ”Connect the TV so we can watch the football
game tonight”)

pull up
noun –1. pull-in, pull-up – (a roadside cafe especially for lorry drivers)
verb –1. (6) draw up, pull up, haul up – (come to a halt after driving
somewhere; ”The Rolls pulled up on pour front lawn”; ”The chauﬀeur
hauled up in front of us”)

push on
verb –. press on, push on, plough on – (continue moving forward)

see red
verb –. anger, see red – (become angry; ”He angers easily”)

send on
verb –. (2) forward, send on – (send or ship onward from an
intermediate post or station in transit; ”forward my mail”)

set up
noun –1. (2) apparatus, setup – (equipment designed to serve a
speciﬁc function)
verb –1. (17) establish, set up, found, launch – (set up or found;
”She set up a literacy program”)

shut down
noun –. (5) closure, closedown, closing, shutdown – (termination of
operations; ”they regretted the closure of the day care center”)
verb –. (2) close up, close, fold, shut down, close down – (cease to
operate or cause to cease operating; ”The owners decided to move
and to close the factory”; ”My business closes every night at 8 P.M.”;
”close up the shop”)

shut up
verb –1. (6) close up, clam up, dummy up, shut up, belt up, button
up, be quiet, keep mum – (refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent;
”The children shut up when their father approached”)
adj –. (1) pent, shut up – (closely conﬁned)

stand by
noun –1. (1) standby – (something that can be relied on when
needed)
verb –1. (4) stand by – (not act or do anything; ”He just stood by
when the police beat up the demonstrators”)
adj –. standby – (ready for emergency use; ”a standby generator”; ”a
standby crew”)

stand guard
verb –. (2) stand guard, stand watch, keep guard, stand sentinel –
(watch over so as to protect; ”We must stand sentinel to protect
ourselves”; ”The jewels over which they kept guard were stolen”)

stay on
verb –. (5) stay, stay on, continue, remain – (continue in a place,
position, or situation; ”After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge
as a student adviser”; ”Stay with me, please”; ”despite student
protests, he remained Dean for another year”; ”She continued as
deputy mayor for another year”)

stretch out
verb –1. (2) unfold, stretch, stretch out, extend – (extend or stretch
out to a greater or the full length; ”Unfold the newspaper”; ”stretch
out that piece of cloth”; ”extend the TV antenna”)

take off
noun –1. (1) takeoff – (a departure; especially of airplanes)
verb –1. (15) depart, part, start, start out, set forth, set off, set out,
take off – (leave; ”The family took off for Florida”)

take orders
verb –1. take orders – (receive and be expected to follow directions
or commands; ”I don’t take orders from you!”)

take over
noun –1. (1) coup d’etat, coup, putsch, takeover – (a sudden and
decisive change of government illegally or by force)
verb –1. (12) assume, usurp, seize, take over, arrogate – (seize and
take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one’s
right or possession; ”He assumed to himself the right to ﬁll all
positions in the town”; ”he usurped my rights”; ”She seized control
of the throne after her husband died”)

think of
verb –1. (53) remember, think of – (keep in mind for attention or
consideration; ”Remember the Alamo”; ”Remember to call your
mother every day!”; ”Think of the starving children in India!”)

turn to
verb –1. (12) address, turn to – (speak to; ”He addressed the crowd
outside the window”)

wake up
verb –1. (8) awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse – (cause
to become awake or conscious; ”He was roused by the drunken men
in the street”; ”Please wake me at 6 AM.”)

work on
verb –1. (21) work at, work on – (to exert eﬀort in order to do,
make, or perform something; ”the child worked at the multiplication
table until she had it down cold”)

work out
noun –. (6) exercise, exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion,
workout – (the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to
keep ﬁt; ”the doctor recommended regular exercise”; ”he did some
exercising”; ”the physical exertion required by his work kept him ﬁt”)
verb –1. (16) work out, work up – (come up with; ”His colleagues
worked out his interesting idea”; ”We worked up an ad for our client”)

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