Phrasal verbs

most common phrasal verbs

Back down

To stop doing something or admit you were wrong because people oppose you

Blow up

To explode

Break down

To suddenly stop functioning

Bring up

To mention something

Bump into

To see or meet someone unexpectedly

Call of

To cancel

Check on

Make sure someone is okay or safe

check out

To examine something to get informations about it

Check with

To ask someone if something is okay or permitted

Come across

To find something unexpectedly

Come back

To return

Come in

To enter

Come up with

To think of a plan or an idea

Cut down

To make something fall by cutting it at its base

Drop by

to go somewhere (usally someone’s home) for a casual visit

Drop off

To take something or someone to a specific place

Ease up on

To become less strict about something

Fall apart

To break into pieces

Fall down

To collapse and fall to the ground

Find out

To discover

Get along

To have a good friendship/relationship with someone

Get away

To escape

Get by

To be able to live through a difficult situation

Get over

To recover from a negative experience or an illness

Get up

To stand

Give away

To give something for others for free

Give in

To finally agree to someone’s request after rejecting for a while

Give up

To stop doing something permanently

Go ahead

To start or continue a planned activity

Go out

To leave home and go somewhere

Grow up

To develop into an adluthood

Hang on

To wait for a short period of time

Hang out

To spend time relaxing or socializing casually

kick out

To forcefully tell someone to leave a place

Let in

To allow someone to enter to a place

Look after

To take care of something or someone

Look for

To try to find something

Look up

To search for information (usually in books or online)

Make up

To invent something

Pay back

To repay the money you borrow from someone

Pick up

To lift something from a surface / To go somewhere and collect a thing fior someone

Put off

To delay sometthing

Put on

To begin wearing somehting

Put up with

To tolerate something

Run out

To have no more of something

Take off

1. Go in the air for an airplane

2. To remove something you are wearing

3. To deduct

Turn un

To activate

Turn up

To increase the volume, heat or lights

Wait up

To stay awake because you are waiting for something or someone

Watch out

To be careful of danger (like a warning usually)