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🔗 Phrasal verbs

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  • give upto stop trying; to stop doing a habit
  • look afterto take care of
  • look forto try to find
  • find outto discover information
  • pick upto lift; to collect someone or something
  • carry onto continue
  • run out ofto have none left
  • set offto start a journey
  • call offto cancel
  • get on withto have a good relationship with
  • look forward toto feel happy about something in the future
  • make upto invent (a story); to become friends again
  • break down(a machine) to stop working
  • turn upto arrive, to appear; to make louder
  • turn downto refuse; to make quieter
  • come backto return
  • go outto leave home for fun; (a light) to stop shining
  • get backto return home
  • get offto leave (a bus, train)
  • give backto return something to its owner
  • throw awayto put in the bin
  • put offto delay, to postpone
  • put up withto tolerate
  • look upto search for (in a dictionary, online)
  • work outto understand, to solve; to exercise
  • sort outto organise, to solve a problem
  • show upto arrive (often late or unexpectedly)
  • hang outto spend time with friends
  • grow upto become an adult
  • take upto start a new hobby
  • come acrossto find by chance
  • bring upto raise (a child); to mention
  • calm downto become calm
  • fall outto argue and stop being friends
  • run intoto meet by chance
  • get overto recover from
  • look intoto investigate
  • go onto continue; to happen
  • come onhurry up! / don't be silly!
  • give into stop fighting, to accept defeat
  • set upto start, to organise; to install
  • take afterto look or behave like a parent
  • drop offto take someone somewhere and leave them