Phrasal Verbs

• Answer back: answer impolitely

• Ask after: inquire about the health of(preguntar por alguien)

• Ask sb in: invite to enter

• Back sb up: support (apoyar)

• Be up to: be doing/ be the responsible of/ be capable

• Be in for: run the risk

• Be back: return

• Be over: be finished

• Be against: be opposed to

• Blow up: inflate/ cause to explode

• Break up: finish/ disperse

• Break out: start

• Break down: stop functioning/ have a mechanical failure/ fail

• Break into: force entry into

• Break off: interrupt

• Break in: train (entrenar o prepararse)

• Bring up: rear/ vomit/ raise as a child

• Bring out: give

• Bring down: defeat

• Bring about: cause

• Bring round: persuade/ revive

• Call up: telephone/ order to join in the army

• Call for: require/ collect/ demand

• Call in : visit briefly

• Call off: cancel

• Catch on#: become popular

• Catch up: reach (alcanzar)

• Carry on: continue

• Carry out: obey

• Carry away: cause to lose one's self control

• Cheer up#: make someone feel happier

• Come off: succeed (tener exito)

• Come out: bloom/ to be on strike/ be punished (1.Florecer)

• Come down: lose one's social position

• Come on: progress

• Come up: happen

• Cut off: disconnect/ isolate

• Cut back: reduce

• Cut out: stop/ omit

• Cut down: reduce

• Cut in: suddenly move in front

• Do up: decorate/ fasten (decorar/ abrochar)

• Do away with: abolish

• Hard done by: treated badly (tratar malamente)

• Have nothing to do: not concern

• Have to - without: not have

• Could do with: need/ want

• Do for: ruin

• Die down: become extinguished (apagar)

• Draw up: stop

• Dress up#: put on different clothes

• Drop out: withdraw (retirar/sacar)

• Drop in: visit briefly

• Eat up#*: use or consume in great quantities

• Fall off: decrease (disminuir)

• Fall in: agree to/ collapse

• Fall out: quarrel (discutir)

• Fall through: fail (suspender)

• Fall back: retreat (retirarse)

• Fall back on: have recourse to

• Fall for: be attracted by

• Feel like: want (tener ganas)

• Feel up: be capable of

• Find out: discover

• Fill out: put on weigh

• Fill in: complete

• Fit out#: provide with everything that will be needed

• Get on: make progress

• Get up: arise (levantarse)

• Get out: leave

• Get across to: communicate successfully

• Get off: post/ send/ mail

• Get back: return

• Get through: make contact on the phone

• Get to : reach

• Get away: escape/ flee/ avoid doing sth

• Get over#: recover from

• Give out: distributed

• Give up: stop/ surrender

• Give out*: finish/ announce/ broadcast/ distribute

• Give off*: send out

• Give in: surrender (rendirse o entregarse)

• Give away: surrender/ reveal

• Go off: go bad

• Go up: rise

• Go down: decrease

• Go in for: enjoy/ take part in

• Go out with#: have a romantic relationship with sb

• Go on: continue

• Go through: spend

• Go into: investigate

• Grow out for: become to elder for

• Grow up: become adult

• Hand out#: give sth to everyone in a group

• Have sb in: have as guests

• Have sth on: be socially engaged (tener un compromiso)

• Have sth out: discuss fully

• Hang on: wait

• Hang out with#: spend time with sb doing nothing

• Head for#: go towards

• Hold up: rob/ delay (robar/retrasar)

• Hold on: wait

• Hold out: resist

• Hold over: postpone

• Hold back: prevent form making progress

• Keep on: continue

• Keep up: go as the same speed as

• Keep down: control

• Keep in after: oblige to remain (obligar a permanecer)

• Keep out: stay outside

• Keep off: not walk on

• Keep back: conceal (ocultar o disimular)

• Keep in: stay on good terms with

• Knock off: stop work

• Lay down: establish

• Lay up with: forced to stay in bed

• Lay off: send home from work

• Lay on: arrange

• Leave off: stop

• Leave out: omit

• Live through: survive

• Live down: recover from

• Lock up: imprison/ jail (estar en la cárcel)

• Let off: treat leniently

• Let in: admit/ leak (2.filtrar(liquido))

• Let out: allow to go out/ make wider

• Let up: stop

• Let down: break one's trust/ disappoint (2.decepcionar)

• Let back: allow to return

• Look up: admire/ visit/ find in a dictionary/ visit

• Look out: be careful

• Look for: seek

• Look forward to: anticipate with pleasure

• Look after: take care of

• Look over: inspect

• Look down: despise (despreciar)

• Look into#: investigate

• Make out: understand/ write/ pretend/ succeed

• Make up: apply cosmetics/ prepare/ be reconciled/ invent

• Make off: run away

• Move on#: change to a different job or place

• Move out#: stop living somewhere

• Own up#: admit to doing something

• Pass over: leave out

• Pass up: not take the advantage

• Pass out: faint (desmayarse)

• Pass away: die

• Pass through: to be in transit

• Pass round: circulate/ offer to everybody

• Pass down: transmit

• Pick up: give a lift/ call for/ acquire/ receive/ correct

• Pick out: identify

• Pick through: inspect

• Pick on: victimize

• Pull into: stop

• Pull down: demolish

• Pull through: recover

• Pull up: stop by

• Put of: delay

• Put across: communicate to

• Put by: save

• Put off: kill one's taste of

• Put down: attribute/ kill painlessly

• Put on: pretend/ organize

• Put out: inconvenience

• Put forward#*: suggest for consideration

• Run down: speak badly about/ become unwound

• Run into: meet

• Run over by: kill by

• Run out: come to the end of

• Run up: encounter

• Run off: print

• Run through: read quickly

• Set off: leave

• Set up: establish

• Set in: settle

• Set out: intend/ express

• Set upon: attack

• Set back: cost/ hinder

• See off: say goodbye to

• See through: finish

• See to: attend

• Show off#: try to impress people

• Sign up#: sign something with interest

• Splash out on#: buy sth expensive

• Split up#: end a relationship

• Stay up: not to go to bed

• Stand in: take the place of

• Stand out: to be easily notice/ resist

• Stand down: to be withdrawn

• Stand up: defend oneself against/ not to keep an appointment

• Stand by: be ready/ watch without doing anything

• Take after#: resemble a member of your family

• Take back: apologize

• Take off: leave the ground

• Take in: make smaller

• Take up*: start

• Take aback: to be astonished

• Take down: write

• Take on: accept/ employ

• Take away: remove

• Throw up: abandon

• Throw away#: get rid of something you don't need more

• Tell off: reprimand

• Turn over: capsize (darse la vuelta)

• Turn down: reject

• Turn in: go to bed

• Turn off: extinguish

• Turn up: appear/ arrive

• Turn out: developed

• Turn away: refuse to entry

• Wear out: ruin/ to be exhausted

• Wear down: weaken (debilitar)

• Wear off: disappeared

• Work out: plan

• The noun is used after the particle in verbs marked with an asterisk*. However the pronoun must be used before the particle.

• Verbs marked with # are not necessary for college.