• Phrasal verbs list with “Come”
  • Come up - to be mentioned or discussed; to arrive; to be ready soon; to approach someone; to stand next to someone
  • Come up with (Noun) - to find a new idea; to produce something
  • Come across (to come upon) - to find someone/something by chance
  • Come round/around - to happen again; to become conscious again
  • Come about - to happen
  • Come along - to go somewhere with someone; to make progress
  • Come out - to appear; to reveal the truth
  • Come back - to go back to a place; to happen again
  • Come over - to visit someone’s house for a short time, (emotions) to affect someone strongly
  • Come through - to overcome a difficult or dangerous situation and become better; to arrive by telephone or radio or after some official procedure
  • Come apart - to be separated into pieces
  • Come before - to take higher priority than others; to be brought to a discussion or for consideration
• Phrasal verbs list with “Take”
  • Take off - the opposite of “to put on”; the act of removing clothing or jewelry. If an aircraft, bird, or insect takes off, it leaves the ground and begins to fly.
  • Take out - to bring something out; to remove something from its place; to take someone to a place like a cinema or a restaurant and usually pay for them; to take someone on a date
  • Take place - to happen or occur. When something takes place, it happens, especially in a controlled or organized way.
  • Take over - to transfer control; to take control of something
  • Take after someone - to look or act like someone in your family
  • Take away - to remove something; to subtract something; to buy food or drink at a restaurant and bring it somewhere to eat
  • Take apart - to separate something into small pieces
  • Take on - to take someone on: to employ someone to do a job; to take something on: to accept a job or a responsibility
  • Take up - to start a new habit or hobby; to start a new job or accept a new position
  • Take up on - to accept an offer from someone; to ask someone to explain something because you don’t agree with them or you think it is wrong
  • Take up with - to have a close relationship with someone, especially someone unsavory and untrustworthy; to be busy doing or thinking about something
  • Take down - to remove something from a high position; to separate something into pieces; to write down a piece of information or a statement
  • Take against - to begin to dislike someone or something for no good reason
  • Take aside - to take someone away from other people so that you can talk with that person
  • Take through - to explain something in detail
• Phrasal verbs list with “Turn”
  • Turn (something) on - to start a machine; to make someone excited or sexually aroused. If someone or something turns you on, they attract you and make you feel sexually excited.
  • Turn off - the opposite of “turn on”; to stop a machine; to make someone feel uninterested, especially sexually.
  • Turn down - to not accept an offer or request
  • Turn over - to change position so that the top part faces downward; to give someone the authority and responsibility to do something
  • Turn around - to change position or direction so that it faces the opposite direction; to start being successful after having been unsuccessful for a long time; to develop in a significantly better way
  • Turn away - to turn your face so that you aren’t looking at someone or something; to not allow someone to enter an area
  • Turn into - to change one thing into another
  • Turn against - to stop liking or being friendly to someone or something
  • Turn in - to go to bed; to take someone to the police or report a crime to the police; to submit a piece of work
  • Turn up - to turn a button or a switch to increase the amount of sound, heat, or light produced by a piece of equipment; to find or discover something by chance
  • Turn upside down - to make a place untidy while you’re looking for something; to cause a lot of changes in a bad way
• Phrasal verbs list with “Work”
  • Work on - To work on someone – to try to persuade or influence someone - To work on something – to spend time working to produce or improve something
  • Work out - to exercise to keep your body in shape; to develop in a successful way; to find a solution to something
  • Work up - to develop a particular feeling with some effort
  • Work through - to deal with something step by step, especially when it takes time and effort
  • Work to - to follow a plan or schedule
  • Work off - to get rid of a strong feeling by engaging in physical activity
  • Work against - to cause disadvantages or contribute to a negative result for someone
• Phrasal verbs list with “Pick”
  • Pick up - to lift and hold something; to get someone or something; to clean or organize after someone has made a mess; to resume something after a break
  • Pick out - If you pick out someone or something, you choose them from among a group of people or things, or recognize something or someone in a group.
  • Pick at - to eat only a small amount of food because you are not hungry
  • Pick on - to choose someone or something; to repeatedly treat someone unfairly or unkindly
  • Pick off - to shoot someone or something one by one by aiming at them carefully from a distance
  • Pick up on - to talk again about something that others have mentioned; to notice something
  • Pick apart - to find flaws in something by careful examination
  • Pick over - to carefully examine and choose the one you want
  • Pick through - to search carefully to find something
• Phrasal verbs list with “Get”
  • Get up - to rise from a bed or chair. When someone who is sitting or lying down gets up, they rise to a standing position; to wake up after sleeping and get out of bed
  • Get over - to overcome a problem or difficulty; to recover from something bad; to start feeling happy or good again after something bad has happened to you.
  • Get on with (someone) - to have a good relationship with someone
  • Get rid of (someone/something) - to become free from someone or something; to throw something away
  • Get out of (doing something) - to avoid doing something; to escape from an unpleasant situation
  • Get through to (someone) - to make someone understand and believe something
  • Get away - to escape a person or a place; to go on holiday
  • Get together - to spend time together
  • Get back at (someone) - to do something bad to someone because they’ve done something bad to you
  • Get across - to succeed in communicating your message
  • Get back with - to have a sexual or romantic relationship with someone with whom you had a previous relationship
  • Get back to - to communicate with someone at a later time because you were busy earlier
  • Get behind (with something) - to fail to do something as quickly as required
  • Get down - to make someone sad or depressed
  • Get in on - to take part in something
  • Get on - to get into a bus, train, taxi, or plane; to be successful in your career
  • Get off - to leave a bus, train, taxi or train; to tell someone to stop touching another one or something
  • Get through - to complete a task
  • Get round - to persuade someone to do what you want by doing nice things for them
  • Get onto - to contact or communicate with
• Phrasal verbs list with “Put”
  • Put away
  • Put out
  • Put off
  • Put on
  • Put aside
  • Put back
  • Put in
  • Put across
  • Put forth/ forward
  • Put up with
• Phrasal verbs list with “Look”
  • Look at - to turn your eyes on something; to stare at something
  • Look for - to find someone or something; to search for something
  • Look up - to search for the meaning; to research; to find information by looking in a directory, dictionary, book or list
  • Look out/to watch out (for) - to be careful or cautious; used to warn someone to be careful, especially when they are likely to have an accident
  • Look over/to go over/to read over/to check over - to review something and make sure it has no errors
  • Look up to - to follow someone as your role model. If you look up to someone, especially someone older than you are, you respect and admire them.
  • Look ahead - to think about what is likely to happen in the future; to predict
  • Look down on - to think that you are better or more important than someone else
  • Look forward to - to be excited about what is going to happen
  • Look in on (someone/something) - to visit someone for a short time
  • Look to - to expect to get help or advice from someone
  • Look through - to read something quickly; to pretend that you do not recognize someone
  • Look upon/on someone/something as someone/something - to consider someone/something as someone/something
• Phrasal verbs list with “Stand”
  • Stand for - to represent; to be a symbol for or sign of
  • Stand up - similar to “to get up”; to rise from a bed or a chair and be on your feet
  • Stand out - to look different from the crowd; to appear more special than other people
  • Stand down - to leave your job or position; to let someone else take your place
  • Stand by - to be ready to do something; to not prevent something bad from happening when you should
  • Stand up to - to not be damaged or harmed by something
  • Stand back - to move backward
  • Stand up for - to defend someone or something that is being criticized
  • Stand over - to stand near someone and watch them
  • Stand in - to do the job that someone does; to replace someone
  • Stand against - to oppose someone or something
• Phrasal verbs list with “Go”
  • Go on/to keep on - to continue doing something
  • Go about - to start to do something or to do something as usual
  • Go along - to continue; to visit or attend a party or event; to travel with someone else
  • Go away - to leave a place or a person; to leave your home for a period of time
  • Go for - to like something; to choose something; to go somewhere to get something; to attack someone
  • Go over - to check something carefully; to move toward someone or something
  • Go across - to cross a river, a bridge, or the ocean
  • Go after - to try to get something; to follow someone
  • Go against - to disagree with or oppose someone/something
  • Go ahead - to arrive before someone; said to someone when you give them permission to do something; to continue
  • Go along with - to agree with someone/something
  • Go back on - to not keep your promise; to change your mind
  • Go before - to happen at an earlier time; to be presented for discussion
  • Go down - to move down to a lower place; to decrease; to be worse
  • Go under - to sink below the surface; to be unsuccessful and stop operating
  • Go into - to start a job; to have a crash; to examine something carefully
  • Go off - to explode; to leave a place; to suddenly make a loud noise; to stop working; to not like someone/something any more
  • Go off with - to leave your spouse or partner and start a relationship with someone else; to take away
  • Go through - to examine something carefully; to be officially accepted
  • Go through with - to do something that you have planned, especially when it’s unpleasant
• Phrasal verbs list with “Make”
  • Make for - to move toward a place; to help make something happen
  • Make up - to invent a story or excuse; to put on make-up; to become friends again
  • Make up for - to do something to correct your faults
  • Make over - to legally make someone the owner of something; to change the appearance of someone or something
  • Make out - to successfully deal with something; to touch someone in a sexual way or to have sex with someone; to understand someone’s characters
  • Make of - to understand someone or the meaning of something
  • Make off - to escape
  • Make out of - to create something from another thing; to interpret someone or something
  • Make way - to move aside so that someone or something can pass; to make room for something
  • Make toward - to move toward someone or something
• Phrasal verbs list with “Give”
  • Give away - to give someone something that you no longer need; to reveal a secret to someone
  • Give up - to stop doing something
  • Give out - to stop working; to make known to people; to give something to a group of people
  • Give over - to stop doing something because it’s annoying
  • Give in - to accept that you cannot win; to hand in
  • Give off - to produce something such as heat, light, or a smell
  • Give back - to return something to its owner
  • Give it up for - to ask someone to cheer and applaud
  • Give onto - to have a view of or passage to something
  • Give up on - to stop hoping or believing that someone will change
• Other common phrasal verbs
  • Try on - to put on a piece of clothing to see how it looks and whether it fits
  • Think over - to consider a problem or decision carefully. If you think something over, you consider it carefully before making a decision.
  • Sit down - to move from a standing position to a sitting position
  • Dress up - to wear nice clothing; to wear formal clothing for an event or to wear a special costume
  • Tire out - to make someone feel very tired. If something tires you out, it makes you exhausted.
  • Hang up - to end a phone call; if you hang up, or you hang up the phone, you end a phone call. If you hang up on someone to whom you are speaking on the phone, you end the phone call suddenly and unexpectedly; to put clothing on a hook or hanger
  • Count on/to depend on - to rely on someone; to wait for someone to help you or take care of a situation
  • Point out - to show an idea; to let people know about an error or mistake; to show a different perspective
  • Figure out - to understand or solve something. If you figure out a solution to a problem or the reason for something, you solve it or understand it.
  • Wake up - to rise from sleeping or unconsciousness
  • Hurry up - to be as quick as possible
  • Lie down - the opposite of “to get up”; to move into a position in which your body is flat, usually to sleep or rest
  • Talk over - to fail to do something as quickly as required
  • Break down - broken; a machine that suddenly stops working; to divide into parts to be analyzed
  • Cross out - to draw a line through a mistake when you are writing
  • Come across/to run across - to encounter; to meet or find somebody/something by chance
  • Stay up - to be awake
  • Rely on (upon) - to depend on someone or something
  • Show up - to appear; to be somewhere
  • Find out - to search for the truth; to learn by studying; to seek information about something. We often use this phrase to gain knowledge of something, or to obtain knowledge about someone’s activities, especially dishonest ones.
  • Drop out of - to quit
  • Drop by/in - to stop by; to make a quick visit
  • Believe in - to have faith in something; to trust someone
  • Cheer up - to try to be happy; to do something funny to make someone happy
  • Fade away - when something becomes blurry; when memories become unclear
  • Sell out - to sell all of something so that nothing remains
  • Save up - to put money aside; to not spend money
  • Check out - to pay for services before leaving; to look at something
  • Show off - to be pretentious about one’s status or abilities
  • Work out - to train the body by physical exercise; to develop in a successful way; to find the answer to something
  • Call off - to cancel something
  • Mess up - to spoil something or do something badly; to make something dirty or untidy
  • Narrow down - to reduce the number of possibilities or choices
  • Rip off - to cheat somebody by making them pay too much, by selling them something of poor quality, etc.
  • Lay off - to stop using or doing something; to end someone’s employment, especially temporarily
  • Follow up - to add to something you have just done by doing something else
  • Rule out - to state that something is not possible or that somebody/something is not suitable

Phrasal verbs list with “Come”

Come up - to be mentioned or discussed; to arrive; to be ready soon; to approach someone; to stand next to someone

Come up with (Noun) - to find a new idea; to produce something

Come across (to come upon) - to find someone/something by chance

Come round/around - to happen again; to become conscious again

Come about - to happen

Come along - to go somewhere with someone; to make progress

Come out - to appear; to reveal the truth

Come back - to go back to a place; to happen again

Come over - to visit someone’s house for a short time, (emotions) to affect someone strongly

Come through - to overcome a difficult or dangerous situation and become better; to arrive by telephone or radio or after some official procedure

Come apart - to be separated into pieces

Come before - to take higher priority than others; to be brought to a discussion or for consideration

Phrasal verbs list with “Take”

Take off - the opposite of “to put on”; the act of removing clothing or jewelry. If an aircraft, bird, or insect takes off, it leaves the ground and begins to fly.

Take out - to bring something out; to remove something from its place; to take someone to a place like a cinema or a restaurant and usually pay for them; to take someone on a date

Take place - to happen or occur. When something takes place, it happens, especially in a controlled or organized way.

Take over - to transfer control; to take control of something

Take after someone - to look or act like someone in your family

Take away - to remove something; to subtract something; to buy food or drink at a restaurant and bring it somewhere to eat

Take apart - to separate something into small pieces

Take on - to take someone on: to employ someone to do a job; to take something on: to accept a job or a responsibility

Take up - to start a new habit or hobby; to start a new job or accept a new position

Take up on - to accept an offer from someone; to ask someone to explain something because you don’t agree with them or you think it is wrong

Take up with - to have a close relationship with someone, especially someone unsavory and untrustworthy; to be busy doing or thinking about something

Take down - to remove something from a high position; to separate something into pieces; to write down a piece of information or a statement

Take against - to begin to dislike someone or something for no good reason

Take aside - to take someone away from other people so that you can talk with that person

Take through - to explain something in detail

Phrasal verbs list with “Turn”

Turn (something) on - to start a machine; to make someone excited or sexually aroused. If someone or something turns you on, they attract you and make you feel sexually excited.

Turn off - the opposite of “turn on”; to stop a machine; to make someone feel uninterested, especially sexually.

Turn down - to not accept an offer or request

Turn over - to change position so that the top part faces downward; to give someone the authority and responsibility to do something

Turn around - to change position or direction so that it faces the opposite direction; to start being successful after having been unsuccessful for a long time; to develop in a significantly better way

Turn away - to turn your face so that you aren’t looking at someone or something; to not allow someone to enter an area

Turn into - to change one thing into another

Turn against - to stop liking or being friendly to someone or something

Turn in - to go to bed; to take someone to the police or report a crime to the police; to submit a piece of work

Turn up - to turn a button or a switch to increase the amount of sound, heat, or light produced by a piece of equipment; to find or discover something by chance

Turn upside down - to make a place untidy while you’re looking for something; to cause a lot of changes in a bad way

Phrasal verbs list with “Work”

Work on - To work on someone – to try to persuade or influence someone - To work on something – to spend time working to produce or improve something

Work out - to exercise to keep your body in shape; to develop in a successful way; to find a solution to something

Work up - to develop a particular feeling with some effort

Work through - to deal with something step by step, especially when it takes time and effort

Work to - to follow a plan or schedule

Work off - to get rid of a strong feeling by engaging in physical activity

Work against - to cause disadvantages or contribute to a negative result for someone

Phrasal verbs list with “Pick”

Pick up - to lift and hold something; to get someone or something; to clean or organize after someone has made a mess; to resume something after a break

Pick out - If you pick out someone or something, you choose them from among a group of people or things, or recognize something or someone in a group.

Pick at - to eat only a small amount of food because you are not hungry

Pick on - to choose someone or something; to repeatedly treat someone unfairly or unkindly

Pick off - to shoot someone or something one by one by aiming at them carefully from a distance

Pick up on - to talk again about something that others have mentioned; to notice something

Pick apart - to find flaws in something by careful examination

Pick over - to carefully examine and choose the one you want

Pick through - to search carefully to find something

Phrasal verbs list with “Get”

Get up - to rise from a bed or chair. When someone who is sitting or lying down gets up, they rise to a standing position; to wake up after sleeping and get out of bed

Get over - to overcome a problem or difficulty; to recover from something bad; to start feeling happy or good again after something bad has happened to you.

Get on with (someone) - to have a good relationship with someone

Get rid of (someone/something) - to become free from someone or something; to throw something away

Get out of (doing something) - to avoid doing something; to escape from an unpleasant situation

Get through to (someone) - to make someone understand and believe something

Get away - to escape a person or a place; to go on holiday

Get together - to spend time together

Get back at (someone) - to do something bad to someone because they’ve done something bad to you

Get across - to succeed in communicating your message

Get back with - to have a sexual or romantic relationship with someone with whom you had a previous relationship

Get back to - to communicate with someone at a later time because you were busy earlier

Get behind (with something) - to fail to do something as quickly as required

Get down - to make someone sad or depressed

Get in on - to take part in something

Get on - to get into a bus, train, taxi, or plane; to be successful in your career

Get off - to leave a bus, train, taxi or train; to tell someone to stop touching another one or something

Get through - to complete a task

Get round - to persuade someone to do what you want by doing nice things for them

Get onto - to contact or communicate with

Phrasal verbs list with “Put”

Put away

Put out

Put off

Put on

Put aside

Put back

Put in

Put across

Put forth/ forward

Put up with

Phrasal verbs list with “Look”

Look at - to turn your eyes on something; to stare at something

Look for - to find someone or something; to search for something

Look up - to search for the meaning; to research; to find information by looking in a directory, dictionary, book or list

Look out/to watch out (for) - to be careful or cautious; used to warn someone to be careful, especially when they are likely to have an accident

Look over/to go over/to read over/to check over - to review something and make sure it has no errors

Look up to - to follow someone as your role model. If you look up to someone, especially someone older than you are, you respect and admire them.

Look ahead - to think about what is likely to happen in the future; to predict

Look down on - to think that you are better or more important than someone else

Look forward to - to be excited about what is going to happen

Look in on (someone/something) - to visit someone for a short time

Look to - to expect to get help or advice from someone

Look through - to read something quickly; to pretend that you do not recognize someone

Look upon/on someone/something as someone/something - to consider someone/something as someone/something

Phrasal verbs list with “Stand”

Stand for - to represent; to be a symbol for or sign of

Stand up - similar to “to get up”; to rise from a bed or a chair and be on your feet

Stand out - to look different from the crowd; to appear more special than other people

Stand down - to leave your job or position; to let someone else take your place

Stand by - to be ready to do something; to not prevent something bad from happening when you should

Stand up to - to not be damaged or harmed by something

Stand back - to move backward

Stand up for - to defend someone or something that is being criticized

Stand over - to stand near someone and watch them

Stand in - to do the job that someone does; to replace someone

Stand against - to oppose someone or something

Phrasal verbs list with “Go”

Go on/to keep on - to continue doing something

Go about - to start to do something or to do something as usual

Go along - to continue; to visit or attend a party or event; to travel with someone else

Go away - to leave a place or a person; to leave your home for a period of time

Go for - to like something; to choose something; to go somewhere to get something; to attack someone

Go over - to check something carefully; to move toward someone or something

Go across - to cross a river, a bridge, or the ocean

Go after - to try to get something; to follow someone

Go against - to disagree with or oppose someone/something

Go ahead - to arrive before someone; said to someone when you give them permission to do something; to continue

Go along with - to agree with someone/something

Go back on - to not keep your promise; to change your mind

Go before - to happen at an earlier time; to be presented for discussion

Go down - to move down to a lower place; to decrease; to be worse

Go under - to sink below the surface; to be unsuccessful and stop operating

Go into - to start a job; to have a crash; to examine something carefully

Go off - to explode; to leave a place; to suddenly make a loud noise; to stop working; to not like someone/something any more

Go off with - to leave your spouse or partner and start a relationship with someone else; to take away

Go through - to examine something carefully; to be officially accepted

Go through with - to do something that you have planned, especially when it’s unpleasant

Phrasal verbs list with “Make”

Make for - to move toward a place; to help make something happen

Make up - to invent a story or excuse; to put on make-up; to become friends again

Make up for - to do something to correct your faults

Make over - to legally make someone the owner of something; to change the appearance of someone or something

Make out - to successfully deal with something; to touch someone in a sexual way or to have sex with someone; to understand someone’s characters

Make of - to understand someone or the meaning of something

Make off - to escape

Make out of - to create something from another thing; to interpret someone or something

Make way - to move aside so that someone or something can pass; to make room for something

Make toward - to move toward someone or something

Phrasal verbs list with “Give”

Give away - to give someone something that you no longer need; to reveal a secret to someone

Give up - to stop doing something

Give out - to stop working; to make known to people; to give something to a group of people

Give over - to stop doing something because it’s annoying

Give in - to accept that you cannot win; to hand in

Give off - to produce something such as heat, light, or a smell

Give back - to return something to its owner

Give it up for - to ask someone to cheer and applaud

Give onto - to have a view of or passage to something

Give up on - to stop hoping or believing that someone will change

Other common phrasal verbs

Try on - to put on a piece of clothing to see how it looks and whether it fits

Think over - to consider a problem or decision carefully. If you think something over, you consider it carefully before making a decision.

Sit down - to move from a standing position to a sitting position

Dress up - to wear nice clothing; to wear formal clothing for an event or to wear a special costume

Tire out - to make someone feel very tired. If something tires you out, it makes you exhausted.

Hang up - to end a phone call; if you hang up, or you hang up the phone, you end a phone call. If you hang up on someone to whom you are speaking on the phone, you end the phone call suddenly and unexpectedly; to put clothing on a hook or hanger

Count on/to depend on - to rely on someone; to wait for someone to help you or take care of a situation

Point out - to show an idea; to let people know about an error or mistake; to show a different perspective

Figure out - to understand or solve something. If you figure out a solution to a problem or the reason for something, you solve it or understand it.

Wake up - to rise from sleeping or unconsciousness

Hurry up - to be as quick as possible

Lie down - the opposite of “to get up”; to move into a position in which your body is flat, usually to sleep or rest

Talk over - to fail to do something as quickly as required

Break down - broken; a machine that suddenly stops working; to divide into parts to be analyzed

Cross out - to draw a line through a mistake when you are writing

Come across/to run across - to encounter; to meet or find somebody/something by chance

Stay up - to be awake

Rely on (upon) - to depend on someone or something

Show up - to appear; to be somewhere

Find out - to search for the truth; to learn by studying; to seek information about something. We often use this phrase to gain knowledge of something, or to obtain knowledge about someone’s activities, especially dishonest ones.

Drop out of - to quit

Drop by/in - to stop by; to make a quick visit

Believe in - to have faith in something; to trust someone

Cheer up - to try to be happy; to do something funny to make someone happy

Fade away - when something becomes blurry; when memories become unclear

Sell out - to sell all of something so that nothing remains

Save up - to put money aside; to not spend money

Check out - to pay for services before leaving; to look at something

Show off - to be pretentious about one’s status or abilities

Work out - to train the body by physical exercise; to develop in a successful way; to find the answer to something

Call off - to cancel something

Mess up - to spoil something or do something badly; to make something dirty or untidy

Narrow down - to reduce the number of possibilities or choices

Rip off - to cheat somebody by making them pay too much, by selling them something of poor quality, etc.

Lay off - to stop using or doing something; to end someone’s employment, especially temporarily

Follow up - to add to something you have just done by doing something else

Rule out - to state that something is not possible or that somebody/something is not suitable