Phrasal+Verbs

Let's start working with phrasal verbs. Write a definition for each of them and provide an example, one invented by yourselves. Be creatives! What other phrasal verbs can you contribute? Share! Note: This work must be done collaboratively here in the wiki.

== eat away : to gradually remove or destroy something ( = erode ). " __// the paint has been eaten away through the passing years" //__// **(emmy)** //==


 * eat into: ****The same as eat away: to gradually destroy something.** "__**The river had eaten into the village."**__ **(Nadia)**

end off:

== face up to : to accept and deal with a difficult fact or problem. " __// you have to face up to the ending of your relationship with peter" //__// **(emmy)** //==


 * fall about: ****To laugh a lot at something.** **__When Kim said the joke everebody fell about it__.(Nadia)**


 * fall away: ****To break off and drop to the ground. __The plane fell away in the air.__** **(Nadia)**

== fall back : to move backwards because you are very surprised, frightened, etc. " __// I fell back when I heard they were having an argument " //__**// (emmy) //**==

fall behind

fall off

fill out get away with get behind

get on get over with give in give out <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">give up on <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">give over <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">give off
 * get away: <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> to escape from a person or place. __"The police arrived on time, but the thief got away".__ (Nadia)**

=== go along with <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">: to agree with or support someone or something. " //__<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'll go along with your plans for this weekend __" (emmy)// ===

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">go in for <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">go off with <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">go towards <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">grow away from <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">grow up <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">grow out of <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">hang out <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">hang on <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">have on <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">have out <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">hold over <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">hold up == hold with <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: used to say that someone does not approve of something. " __// I don't hold with wearing animal's skin //__// " **(emmy)** //== <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">keep together <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">keep in <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">knock down <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">knock over <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">lay up <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">lay in <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">let on <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">let out <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">look into <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">look over <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">look to <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">look like <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">make over <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">make with <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">make up for <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">pass over <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">pass out <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">pull apart <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">pull back <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">pull off
 * go down with: ** ** To become ill with a particular illness. __"Three people in my office have gone down with the flu.__ **
 * hand down: <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> To give knowledge or skill to someone who is younger than you and will live after you have died. __"This skills have been handed down__ __from generation to generation".__ (Nadia)**
 * keep out of: not to be involved with something. __"You keep out of this. It`s none of your concern".__ **
 * lay about: (someone),to attack someone by hitting them. __"He said that his captors had laid about him with whips".__ **
 * make into: ** <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**To change someone or something so that they become something else. __"The story was made into a film five years ago"__.(Nadia)**

== round off <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> : to do something as a way of ending an event, performance, etc. in a suitable or satisfactory way. " __// I'll round off this year //____// with my new album //____// " //__ // **(emmy)** //==

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">round on <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">run after <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">run off <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">run through <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">set down <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">set to <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">set on <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">slip off <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">slip out <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">slip up

== slip away <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: when something such as an opportunity is no longer available. " //__your promotion in this company has slipped away because of your bad actitude__"// == ==<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> or when someone leaves a place without anyone noticing. " __// she was dancing in the party but then she slipped away between the people //__// " **(emmy)** //==

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">stand over <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">stand up for <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">stand in for <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">take away <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">take out <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">take up <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">turn off <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">turn down
 * stand back: to move away from something, or to stand at a distance from something, especially something dangerous. __"The children were told to stand well back from the fire".__ **