Phrasal verbs

 

Alguns termos em inglês não são o que realmente parecem ser, no caso, as Phrasal Verbs são expressões com aparentemente ao “pé da letra” querem dizer uma coisa mas o real significado é outro.

Abaixo estão algumas das mais utilizadas. Espero que seja útil!

— Drop off: fall asleep

Ask out – invite to go somewhere

Back up- support

Blow up – inflates; explode

Blurt out – say something unexpectedly

Boil over- overflow by boiling

Boil down- reduce

Boil up- increase to a dangerous level

Break down- stop working (machine), destroy

Break off- stop speaking,

Break up- destroy, separate.

Break up with- end a relationship

Bring back – return

Bring up – mention; raise children

Burn down – burn a building to the ground

Burn up – destroy by burning

Call up- telephone

Call off – cancel

Calm down- become calmer

Catch up with – become equal to; level with

Chase down – follow someone to catch them

Cheer up – make someone happy

Chicken out – be afraid to continue an action

Clear up – correct a misunderstanding

Close down- cease a business

Come across- find by chance

Come back- begin again after inactivity

Come over- happen to

Come into- inherit

Come in- become fashionable

Come out- be published, be known

Come up- move near, happen

Come up with- invent

Cross out – remove or eliminate by drawing a line through it

Cut down- reduce something to save money, make something fall by cutting

Do away with- get rid of, eliminate or finish

Dream up- imagine

Dress up- dress fomally

Drop off – fall asleep

Drown out – overwhelm with noise

Dry off – remove moisture from a surface

Egg on – encourage

Explain away – give an excuse for something

Fade away – gradually disappear

Fizzle out – become ineffective

Fight off- defend successfully

Figure out – find an answer, calculate

Fill in/out – complete a form

Find out – discover

Fix up- repair or renovate

Flunk out – fail in school

Get across – make understandable

Get away- escape unpunished

Get down – depress

Get for- obtain

Get over – recover from a shock or illness

Get up – leave bed in the morning

Give away- distribute at no cost

Give back – return something to the owner

Give in- surrender

Give up – quit

Give up on – stop trying

Go away- take something without permission

Go off- turn sour, switched off

Go over- examine, review.

Go down- become lower

Go out- go outside socially

Go on – continue

Go through with – continue with resolve

Go with – date exclusively

Goof off – waste time

Goof up – make a mistake

Grow up – get bigger and older

Hand in – submit

Hand out – distribute

Hand over – surrender something

Hang in- keep going in the spite of the difficulties

Hang out – spend free time somewhere

Hang on- wait, specially on the phone

Hang up- put a telephone receiver down

Hang around- be in a place without purpose or activity

Hang down- become lower

Keep away from – avoid

Keep after- continue insisting

Keep back- control feelings, keep something secret, cause to remain at a distance.

Keep off- make someone stay away from a place (the place must be mentioned)

Keep on – continue

Knock out- make someone lose consciousness

Lead on – give false hope to someone

Leave out – omit

Let down – disappoint

Lighten up – become less serious

Look over – examine; inspect

Look up – find information a reference book

Look after – take care of someone

Look down on – have a poor opinion of; disdain

Look up to – admire

Make up- create; invent

Make up with – reestablish a relationship

Make over- remake

Make out- understand

Make off with- steal

Mark down – discount a price

Mess up – make something disorganized or dirty

Mix up – confuse

Pass out – faint

Pass over- overlook

Pencil in – make a tentative appointment

Pick in- make hole in

Pick out – select; choose

Pick off- remove something, especially from a plant

Pick up- come to get; lift something, give someone a ride.

Point out – show; mention

Put away – store, put something in its place

Put across- make an idea understood and well received.

Put back – return to a customary place

Put down – place something on a surface; insult

Put off- postpone; delay

Put on – wear

Put out – extinguish something burning

Put up with – tolerate

Reach up- try to win, have hope and expectations for the future

Rip up – tear into small pieces

Run across – find or meet by chance

Run away- escape

Run about- run with out direction for fun

Run after- try to gain attention of someone from the opposite sex, pursue something.

Run around- keep company change lovers frequently

Run down- wound someone with a vehicle

Run into- collide; meet unexpectedly

Run off- print

Run out of- to have no further supply of, to lack

Run over – hit someone with a vehicle

Screw up – make a mistake

See about- make the arrangements

Set down- make or fix such as a rule

Set off- begin a journey

Set up- start a business

Show off – act conspicuously

Slow down – make something go more slowly

Speed up- move faster

Stand for- represent

Stand by- support

Stay up – not go to bed

Take away- remove

Take back – return; retract a statement

Take in – give shelter; deceive; adjust in size

Take off – remove clothes; leave, rise from the ground.

Take on – accept a challenge

Take over- win control of

Take out – act as host on a date

Take up- begin to take interest in.

Talk over – discuss

Tear up – rip into small pieces

Tell off – express angry response to someone

Think over – consider carefully

Think up- create, plan

Throw away – discard

Throw up- vomit

Try on – test the way something fits

Try out – test the way something works

Turn around – face the opposite direction

Turn down – decrease the sound level, refuse an offer or invitation

Turn off – stop the operation of a machine

Turn on – start the operation of a machine

Turn up – increase the sound level

Wear away/down- reduce gradually

Wake up- become awake

Wear out- use until its finished

Wear off- cease gradually.

Work out – resolve, calculate, exercise

Write down – make a note of something