Phrasal Verbs Inglesa 4 Unidad 5-8

To become of

To want to know where someone is and what happened to them (And Mickey Adams - I wonder what became of him.)

To burn something down

To destroy something, especially a building, by fire, or to be destroyed by fire (He tried to burn down the school by setting fire to a pile of papers.)

To burn up

To destroy something completely with fire or heat, or to be destroyed completely by fire or heat (Meteorites often burn up in the atmosphere before they reach the ground.)

To burn up

To use fuel (A car this size burns up a lot of fuel.)

To clear something away

To make a place tidy by removing things from it or putting them where they should be (I want you to clear all these toys away before bedtime.)

To come into bloom

To start to produce flowers (The orange trees will soon be coming into bloom.)

To do someone down

To criticize someone in order to make them feel ashamed or to make other people lose respect (She felt that everyone in the meeting was trying to do her down.)

To do someone out of something

To stop someone from getting or keeping something, especially in a dishonest or unfair way (Pensioners have been done out of millions of pounds as a result of the changes.)

To get at

To try to express something (I'm not sure what you're getting at - don't you think I should come tonight?)

To get around to something

To do something that you have intended to do for a long time (I still haven't got around to fixing that tap.)

To get off with something

To be given a punishment that is not very severe after you have done something wrong (She got off with a small fine.)

To get about

To be able to move or travel about, often of people who have been ill (She didn’t get about much after her operation.)

To get along (with)

To be friendly to someone (I don't really get along with my sister's husband.)

To get something off

To send a letter or parcel to someone (I got that letter off this morning.)

To get across

To manage to make someone understand or believe something (This is the message that we want to get across to the public.)

To get through

To succeed in talking to someone on the phone (I tried to call her but couldn't get through.)

To get someone down

To make someone feel unhappy (The chaos in his house was starting to get him down.)

To get at someone

To criticize a person repeatedly (He keeps getting at me and I really don't know what I've done wrong.)

To get ahead

To be successful in the work that you do (It's tough for a woman to get ahead in politics.)

To get away with something

To succeed in avoiding punishment for something (If I thought I could get away with it, I wouldn't pay my taxes at all.)

To get on with something

To start or continue doing something, especially work (Stop talking and get on with it.)

To get by

To be able to live or deal with a situation with difficulty, usually by having just enough of something you need, such as money (How can he get by on so little money?)

To get out of something

To avoid doing something that you do not want to do, especially by giving an excuse (I think her backache was just a way of getting out of the housework.)

To get about

(Of stories, rumours/rumors etc) to become well known (I don’t know how the story got about that she was leaving.)

To get around someone

To be nice to sb in order to persuade them to do something (He’s just trying to get around me.)

To get over something/someone

To get better after an illness, or feel better after something or someone has made you unhappy (It took him years to get over the shock of his wife dying.)

To get up to something

To do something, often something that other people would disapprove of (She's been getting up to all sorts of mischief lately.)

To give away something

To tell people something secret, often without intending to (The party was meant to be a surprise, but Sharon gave it away.)

To give in

To finally agree to what someone wants, after refusing for a period of time (He nagged me so much for a new bike that eventually I gave in.) / to give a piece of written work or a document to someone to read, judge, or deal with (Have you given that essay in yet?)

To give something off

To produce heat, light, a smell, or a gas (That tiny radiator doesn't give off much heat.)

To give out

To stop working (At the end of the race his legs gave out and he collapsed on the ground.) / to complain about something (After this win hopefully people will stop giving out to the team and the coach.)

To give up

To stop owning, using, or claiming something (They were forced to give up their home because they couldn't pay the mortgage.) / to stop doing a regular activity or job (He's given up driving since his illness.)

To give yourself up

To allow the police or an enemy to catch you (After evading the authorities for three days, the suspect finally decided to give himself up to the local police.)

To hype up

To exaggerate the importance, quality, or excitement of something (he movie trailer hyped up the action so much, but the actual film was pretty boring.)

To go through

To accept or approve a plan/To use a lot of something (A city council member said that the proposals for the new shopping centre were unlikely to go through./Before I gave up coffee, I was going through five cups a day.)

To go with

To look good together (This wine goes particularly well with seafood.)

To go down with

To start to suffer from an infectious disease (Half of Martha's class has gone down with flu.)

To go on

To happen (I'm sure we never hear about a lot of what goes on in government.)

To go in for

To take part in a competition (Are you planning to go in for the 100 metres race?)

To go off

To start to ring loudly or make a loud noise (The alarm should go off automatically as soon as smoke is detected)

To go for something

To choose something (Instead of butter, I always go for margarine or a low-fat spread.)

To go round

To be enough for everyone (Are there enough pencils to go round?)

To go down

To receive a particular reaction (The idea did not go down well with my parents.)

To go on (with)

To continue (Please go on with what you're doing and don't let us interrupt you.)

To go up

To be built (A new factory is going up at the site of the old airport.)

To hold back

To stop someone or something developing or doing as well as they should/To stop yourself showing an emotion (She felt that having children would hold her back./He spoke slowly, to hold back his growing anger.)

To hold on

Used to tell someone to wait for a short time (Hold on, I'll check in my diary.)

To hold out

To continue in a situation that is dangerous or difficult (They won’t be able to hold out much longer against these attacks.)

To hold out for

To wait until you get what you want (The workers are holding out for a ten percent pay rise.)

To hold out on someone

To refuse to give help or information to someone (Don't hold out on me - I need to know who did it.)

To hold something over

To delay (The nomination was held over until the Senate adjourned.)

To hold up

To delay/To steal (Traffic was held up for several hours by the accident./They held the same bank up twice in one week.)

Keep at something

To continue to do or work on something (I kept at it and finally finished at three this morning.)

To keep up with something

To continue to be informed about something (He’s never made an effort to keep up with current events.)

To keep to something

To do what you have promised or planned to do (I think we should keep to our original plan.)

To keep up with

To do whatever is necessary to stay level or equal with someone or something (He started to walk faster and the children had to run to keep up.)

To keep on at somebody

To continue to talk in an annoying way about something (He kept on at me about the money, even though I told him I hadn't got it.)

To keep someone down

To prevent a person or group of people from having any power or freedom (It's all part of a conspiracy to keep women down.)

To keep in with somebody

To continue to try to be friendly with someone, especially because they can help you (I like to keep in with my ex-employer, you never know when you might need a reference.)

To keep back

To not tell someone everything you know about a situation or an event that has happened (I suspect she's keeping something back.)

To keep someone in

To make a child stay inside as a punishment, or to make someone stay in hospital (They kept her in overnight for observation.)

To lay something aside

To put something to one side (I laid the book aside and leaned out of the window.)

To lay into someone

To attack someone physically, or to criticize someone in an angry way (In the middle of the meeting she suddenly laid into him for no apparent reason.)

To lay off something

To stop using or doing something (You'd better lay off alcohol for a while.)

To lay something out

To spend money (It's not every day you lay out $500 on a dress.)

To let down

To disappoint someone by failing to do what you agreed to do or were expected to do/To move an object or person to a lower position (I promised I would pick her up from the airport, so I really can't let her down/She untied her hair and let it down.)

To let yourself in for something

To become involved in a difficult or unpleasant situation without intending to (Do you realize how much extra work you're letting yourself in for?)

To let someone in on something

To tell someone about something that is secret (Debbie agreed to let me in on her plans.)

To let someone off (with)

To not punish someone who has committed a crime or done something wrong (Instead of a prison sentence they were let off with a fine.)

To let on

To tell other people about something that you know, especially when it is a secret (I suspect he knows more than he's letting on.)

To let out

To make a piece of clothing wider by removing the sewing from the sides and sewing closer to the edge of the material/To emit a sound, usually a sigh cry (I gained weight and need to let these pants out/She let out a sigh of relief.)

To let through

To allow to pass (I was let through to the front of the queue.)

To let up

To decrease in force or effort (The rain/snow is letting up.)

To let up (on)

To stop treating someone severely, or to stop doing something so forcefully (He advised her to let up on the relentless criticism.)

To cheat someone out of something

To unfairly prevent someone from getting or achieving something that they should have (She claimed that her cousin had cheated her out of her inheritance.)

To check in

To register your arrival at the front desk, verify your reservation, and receive your room key (Hi, I'd like to check in, please.)

To check out

To leave a hotel after paying and returning your room key (Please remember to leave your room key at reception when you check out.)

Check up on somebody

To try to discover what someone is doing in order to be certain that that person is doing what they should be doing (My mum checks up on me most evenings to see that I've done my homework.)

To cut back on

To spend less, do less, or use less of something (The government has announced plans to cut back on defence spending by 10 percent next year.)

To cut down on something

To eat or drink less of a particular thing, usually in order to improve your health (I’m trying to cut down on the amount of sugar I eat.)

To cut in

To interrupt what someone is saying by saying something yourself (I was just talking to Jan, when Dave cut in.)

To cut off

To stop providing something such as electricity, supplies, etc./To cause a person or place to become separate, or cause someone to be or feel alone (The aim was to cut off the enemy's escape route/supplies/When his wife died, he cut himself off from other people.)

To cut out someone

To not allow someone to share something or be included in something (They cut me out of the conversation.)

To draw in

To become days darker earlier because autumn or winter is coming (As autumn arrives, the nights draw in much earlier.)

To draw on

To start using the supply of something (Americans are spending more than they earn, drawing on savings and building up debt to do so.)

To draw out

To cause something to last longer than is usual or necessary (The director drew the meeting out for another hour.)

To draw up

To arrive somewhere and come to a halt (A taxi drew up outside the hotel.)

To drop in

To come for a visit, esp. without having received an invitation for a specific time (Drop in whenever you’re in the neighborhood.)

To drop off

To decrease (The demand for mobile phones shows no signs of dropping off.)

To drop out of sth

To no longer be a part of something (He dropped out of high school.)

To eat into

To use or take away a large part of something valuable, such as money or time (The high cost of living in London is eating into my savings.)

To fall back

To move back or stop moving forward (He ordered the troops to fall back.)

To fall back on

To use something, especially a form of financial support, when other things have failed (When the business failed, we had to fall back on our savings.)

To fall for someone

To suddenly have strong romantic feelings about someone (She always falls for older men.)

To fall in

To drop a ceiling to the ground because it is damaged (Ten miners were trapped underground when the roof of the tunnel fell in.)

To fall in with

To become friendly with someone (She fell in with a strange crowd of people at university.)

To fall off

To become smaller or lower (Sales have been falling off recently.)

To fall on

To assault someone suddenly, or to eagerly take hold of something (The enemy fell on them from the rear.)

To fall out with

To argue with someone and stop being friendly with them (He left home after falling out with his parents.)

To fall through

To fail to happen (We found a buyer for our house, but then the sale fell through.)