Phrasal Verbs 301-400
301.
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fill in
fill out
fill up
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To provide answers or information on an
official document.
To block up a hole, etc. with something.
To do someone else’s work for a specified
reason.
To write down all the required
information on an official document, e.g. Many people hate filling
out forms, but most of the time they have to do it.
To fill a place such as a cinema, church,
container, etc. with people, things, etc., e.g. As soon as the doors are
opened, the cinema quickly started to fill up.
To write down required details on an
official document, e.g. I had to fill upeverything on the form
before I could submit it for approval.
To eat something in excess, e.g. He has a
strong liking for cookies and when any are available he will fill up on
them.
To keep refilling a glass, etc., e.g. Do
you have to keep filling up my glass? I’m feeling a bit
tipsy already.
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302.
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filter … out
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To pass liquid or gas through a device to
remove impurities or other particles.
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303.
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find against/for
find out
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(Court) to make a decision against/in
favour of someone.
To discover information or a fact about
someone or something, e.g. They no longer remained friendly to him when
they found out he had been a prisoner.
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304.
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fine … down
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To improve something by making it
thinner, smaller, more exact, etc.
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305.
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finish off
finish up
finish with
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To kill someone or animal, or decisively
defeat someone in a match, etc.
To finish eating all of something;
To do the final thing before breaking up
or dispersing, e.g. finish off the evening by having a
drink.
To end up at a particular place or doing
one final thing.
To eat or drink all the rest of
something.
To no longer need to use something.
To end a relationship with someone.
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306.
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fire back
fire off
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To shoot back with gun, etc.
To respond promptly and angrily to a
question or remark.
To use a weapon to shoot.
To send something quickly, e.g. a fax,
letter.
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307.
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firm … up
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To make something such as an agreement,
ideas, plan, arrangements, etc. more definite and explicit.
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308.
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fit in
fit … in
fit … out
fit … up
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To adapt to a group
To find time to see someone or do
something.
To meet the requirements of someone.
To make someone appear guilty of a crime
or wrongdoing by falsifying evidence against them.
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309.
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fix on
fix … up
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To decide or settle on a suitable person,
thing, etc. for a particular purpose.
To provide someone with something, e.g.
They fix us up for a night’s stay at their
place.
To arrange a date for someone with a
member of the opposite sex, e.g. Jack brought Jill along, hoping his friends
will find someone to fix her up with.
To improve on a place to make it more
attractive or suitable, e.g. They intend to fix up their
house to look more like a palace than a house.
To enhance one’s appearance, e.g. She
has fixed herself up gorgeously for it’s
her birthday party tonight.
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310.
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fizzle out
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To gradually end in a disappointing way.
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311.
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flag … down
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To wave or signal to a driver to stop.
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312.
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flake out
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To fall asleep because of exhaustion.
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313.
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flare out
flare up
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To suddenly say something angrily.
To suddenly become angry or violent.
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314.
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flash … around
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To flaunt one’s wealth in order to gain
admiration.
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315.
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flesh … out
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To add more details to something in order
to improve it.
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316.
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flick through
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To look quickly through a book, magazine,
set of photographs, etc.
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317.
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fling … into
fling … off
fling … out
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To get wholeheartedly engaged in an
activity or enterprise.
To quickly remove something such as a
piece of clothing, cover, etc.
To dispose of unwanted things.
To suddenly make someone leave a place or
organization.
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318.
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flip … off
flip out
flip over
flip through
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To rudely show your middle finger to
someone.
To suddenly become very angry or upset or
start to behave in a crazy way, e.g. Jack flipped out when
Jill called to say she couldn’t turn up for the appointment as she was very
tired.
To turn something from one side onto the
other.
To look quickly through something such as
a book, magazine, etc.
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319.
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flirt with
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To behave as though one is sexually
attracted to someone but not in a very serious way.
To willingly risk danger, death, etc.
without worrying about it.
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320.
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float around
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(Something) to be somewhere, e.g.
Everyone knows the spreadsheet file is floating around but
no one knows exactly where it is.
(Rumour, information, etc.) to be circulated
and talked about, e.g. The latest gossip about the manager’s private affair
is floating around in the office building.
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321.
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flood … out
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To force someone to leave their home or
to be evacuated because of floods.
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322.
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flunk out
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To be expelled from school or college for
failing examinations.
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323.
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fly at/into
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To attack verbally or physically.
To suddenly go into a rage or other
strong emotion.
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324.
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fob … off
fob … off on
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To satisfy someone by making excuses to
deceive them or make them receive something of low quality.
To make someone accept something inferior
by trickery.
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325.
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foist … on/upon
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To force to accept someone or something
that they do not want.
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326.
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fold … in
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To mix an ingredient with another when
preparing food.
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327.
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follow around
follow through
follow up
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To keep following someone everywhere they
go.
To continue an action after the main task
is completed in order to ensure a successful conclusion.
To continue the arm movement of a stroke
after the ball has been struck as in sport.
To conduct further investigation or
probe, e.g. The police follow up the investigation with new
information leading to the arrest of the wanted man.
To put in additional efforts to attain a
desired aim, e.g. He follows up his doctor’s diagnosis by
seeing another specialist for a second opinion.
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328.
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fool about/around
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To waste time behaving in a silly way,
e.g. He’s fooling around in the library when he should be
reading or doing some writing.
To act in an irresponsible way, e.g.
Someone must have fooled around with this telephone, now the
public can’t make calls with it.
To engage in a casual or extramarital
sexual activity, e.g. A doctor is fooling around with one of
his patients and nobody knows about it.
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329.
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force … back
force … down
force … on/upon
force … out of
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To refrain from displaying one’s
emotions.
To forcibly swallow something that one
does not want.
To impose something on someone.
To force information out of someone by
repeated questioning or threat, etc.,
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330.
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forge ahead
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To make progressive and successful
headway.
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331.
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fork out
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To unwillingly pay money for something.
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332.
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foul up
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To spoil something or do something wrong
by making mistakes.
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333.
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freak out
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To become or cause someone to become very
upset, angry or irrational, e.g. She freaked out when she was stopped by
traffic policemen for speeding.
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334.
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freeze … out
freeze over
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To deliberately exclude someone by
adopting a hostile or obstructive attitude.
To turn the surface of pool, lake, etc.
into ice.
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335.
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freshen … up
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To wash oneself or changing one’s clothes
to feel clean and comfortable.
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336.
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frig about/around
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To waste time doing unnecessary or
unimportant things.
To treat someone badly or unfairly.
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337.
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frighten … away
frighten … off
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To make an animal or someone go away by
making them feel afraid.
To drive someone away by frightening
them.
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338.
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fritter … away
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To waste time, money, or effort on
something unimportant or trivial.
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339.
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front for
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To act as the person or organization
serving as a cover for illegal activities.
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340.
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frost up
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To become covered in frost.
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341.
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frown on/upon
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To disapprove of something, especially
someone’s behaviour.
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342.
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fuck around
fuck off
fuck ... off
fuck … over
fuck ... up
fuck up
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To behave in a silly way or waste time or
other people’s time.
To go away.
To anger or annoy someone.
To treat someone very badly.
To make someone confused or unhappy.
To make a mistake or do something badly.
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343.
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function as
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To fulfil the purpose or task of
something.
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344.
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fuss over
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To treat someone with excessive attention
or affection.
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345.
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futz around
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To idle or occupy oneself without
purpose.
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346.
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gad
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To go to different places in search of
pleasure.
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347.
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gain on/upon
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To gradually get closer to a person or
thing pursued.
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348.
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gallop through
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To proceed at great speed in doing
something.
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349.
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gamble … away
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To lose money or other things by
gambling.
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350.
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gang up on
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To join together into a group to
intimidate or attack someone.
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351.
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gas … up
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To fill petrol in a car.
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352.
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gather … in
gather … up
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To collect things such as crop, clothes,
etc. together.
To pick up lots of things from different
places.
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353.
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gee up
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To encourage someone to work harder and
quicker.
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354.
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gen up
gen … up
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To learn a lot about something for a
specific purpose.
To provide someone with information about
something.
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355.
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get … across
get ahead
get along
get around to
get at
get away
get away with
get back
get back at
get back to
get behind
get by
get down
get down to
get in
get into
get off
get off on
get on
get out
get out of
get over
get ... over
get round
get round to
get through
get to
get together
get up
get ... up
get up to
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To successfully convey a message, an
idea, etc. to someone.
To have achieved success in one’s life or
career, e.g. He comes from a wealthy family and getting ahead seems
easy to him.
To manage to live or survive, or interact
with people, e.g. He never seems to get along with anybody.
To be able to do something, e.g. He
is getting along fine in his new job.
To finally do something after some time,
e.g. He didn’t get around to preparing for his exam until
the last moment.
To be able to reach something.
To criticize someone repeatedly.
To succeed in leaving a place; escape,
e.g. The robbers managed to get awaythrough the back exit just
before the police arrived.
To have not been punished or criticized
for a wrongful act, e.g. He has been shoplifting for a considerable time, and
he always gets away with it.
To take a holiday, e.g. I have been
working very hard and long hours, but still have no plan to get
away for a week or two.
To escape blame or punishment for a
wrongful act.
To return a place, e.g. I think we
can get back in time for dinner.
To have something returned to one, e.g. I
lent him my umbrella two days ago and I haven’t got it back.
To move away from danger, etc., e.g. The
onlookers were told to get back as the firemen battled the
blaze.
To move back to the real discussion, e.g.
He was told to get back to the main point of the discussion
as his comments seemed irrelevant.
To plan to retaliate, e.g. Jill cannot
forget what Jack said about her and intends to get back at him.
To take revenge on someone, e.g. He
swears he would get back at his step-father who ill-treated
him while they were living together.
To talk to someone later, e.g. He said he
would get back to me, and after two days I’m still waiting.
To have not done what one should have
done earlier, e.g. He has gotten far behind with
his work which should have been finished one week ago.
Manage to live but with difficulty or
accomplish something.
To move from higher to lower level, e.g.
I got down to the beach by walking down a flight of steps.
To move someone or something from a
higher to lower level, e.g. Some one called a fireman to get a
cat down from a tree.
To cause unhappiness, depression, etc. to
someone, e.g. The prolonged illness of her mother is beginning to get her down.
To start work on something.
To try to enter a place, e.g. It was very
crowded at the stadium, and those without tickets also tried to get
in.
To engage someone to do something, e.g.
We have to get the plumber in as the tap isn’t
working properly.
To enter a place, e.g. We got
into the stadium for the match as soon as we arrived there.
To put something into something else,
e.g. We tried quite unsuccessfully to getall the things into the
luggage.
To come into an adverse situation, e.g.
They had to sell off their house when they got into financial
difficulty.
To form a habit, routine, etc., e.g. She
has gotten into the habit of biting her nails.
To escape punishment or be acquitted,
e.g. The lucky murderer got off scot-free when the sole
witness suddenly passed away.
To alight, e.g. When a train arrives at a
station and stops, a lot of people get offit.
To end a telephone conversation, e.g. She
started a lengthy telephone conversation and got off it only
after being told to do so for the third time by her angry father.
To leave one’s workplace after a day’s
work, e.g. Jill is always very punctual getting off the
workplace after the day’s work.
To have difficulty removing something,
e.g. He has already spent hours trying to get the lid off a
drum.
To send something such as a letter,
parcel, etc., e.g. The clerk has to get the parcels off by
courier service before evening.
To find something enjoyable or be excited
by something, e.g. He gets off on skydiving and has been
doing it for many years.
To continue doing something, e.g. We had
to get on with it until it’s completed because there isn’t
much time left.
To have a friendly relationship with each
other, e.g. Having known each other for only a short while we seem to get
on very well.
To make progress in one’s activity, e.g.
How are you getting on with writing the book?
To climb on to an animal, bicycle, etc.,
e.g. They have to use a ladder to get onan elephant.
To enter a vehicle, etc. e.g. As soon as
the bus opened its door, people rushed to get on it.
To put on something such as clothes,
etc., e.g. Those shoes are sure too small for me, I can’t get them on.
To leave or escape from a place, e.g.
Visitors to the zoo rushed out for their life when they heard a tiger get
out from its enclosure.
To help someone leave or escape from a
place, e.g. Gang members helped a prisoner get out from the
prison.
To have a regular break from the same
environment, e.g. Every weekend we get out of this city for
an activity in the country.
To run away from danger, etc. We managed
to get out when a fire started to burn in the building.
To get something from something else,
e.g. He couldn’t get any coin out of his
piggy-bank no matter how he tried.
To remove something from something else,
e.g. What should I use to get this stubborn stain out of
my shirt?
To prevent secret information from being
known, e.g. If this information gets out we will be directly
implicated.
To publish something, e.g. The first
issue should get out at the end of this month.
To escape from an unpleasant situation,
e.g. He got out of visiting his mother-in-law
with his wife by claiming falsely that he had to attend an important office
meeting.
To succeed in dealing with an unpleasant
or difficult situation, e.g. Many speakers prefer to be the first or among
the earlier ones on the list to get it overwith
than to be nervous awaiting their turns.
To recover from something such as an
illness, a bad experience, etc. Her husband passed away one month ago and she
still hasn’t gotten over it.
To go or be asked to go to a place, e.g.
I think I’ll call and ask them to get overhere for a drinking
bout.
To complete a task.
To resolve a problem; evade something
such as a restriction, etc.
To deal with a task in due course, e.g.
After we get through painting the house, we can start on
tiling the floor.
To communicate successfully with someone,
e.g. He has explained to his family again and again the need to move house,
but he just can’t get through.
To fail in trying to speak to someone by
telephone, e.g. He has tried numerous times to call his brother overseas but
he has not been able to get through.
To have undergone a bitter experience.
To annoy or upset someone, e.g. Now he is
looking for someone to blame, but don’t let him get to you.
To arrive at a place, e.g. We managed
to get to our destination before it gets dark.
To have to do something, e.g. I haven’t
finished my homework; I’ll get to it later.
To upset or annoy someone, e.g. The
baby’s constant crying is beginning to get to its young
mother.
To meet or gather for a specific purpose,
e.g. We have agreed to get togethertomorrow night to do some
crazy thing like looking for ghosts.
To put things in the same place, e.g. We
are getting all the ingredients together to
make some cakes.
To rise from bed when awake, e.g. I don’t
feel like getting up in this frosty morning.
To make someone wake up and get out of
bed, e.g. I think I’ll prepare the breakfast before I get him up.
To stand up from a sitting position, e.g.
Everyone present got up when he entered.
To be involved in something, especially
something illicit, e.g. The neighbours all along didn’t know what he got
up to until the police arrived and arrested him.
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356.
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ginger … up
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To make someone or something full of
interest or excitement.
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357.
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give … away
give in
give out
give over
give up
give ... up
give up on
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To willingly transfer one’s thing or
things to someone, e.g. He has been givingmoney away to
the various charities.
To unintentionally disclose evidence that
implicates someone in a crime, e.g. He told his wife he would work late but
instead went to a party after work, and his colleague gave it away when
the wife called the office.
To hand over a bride to her bridegroom,
e.g. The bride’s father was too sad to give her away,
and asked his eldest son to do it instead.
To make a secret known, e.g. The
culprit gave himself away by feeling and
appearing very nervous when questioned by the police.
To stop fighting or arguing and concede
to their demand.
To distribute something to many people,
e.g. Campaign workers give outthousands of leaflets about the
danger and prevention of AIDS to everyone on the street.
To stop functioning properly, e.g. As we
get older increasingly more parts of our body can easily give out.
To have none left, e.g. Explorers ensure
their provisions, especially food and drink, do not give out in
the midst of their exploration.
To hand over for a particular purpose.
To delegate the responsibility for
someone or something to somebody else.
To stop doing something before completing
it, e.g. He gave up midway in a marathon race because he
felt exhausted.
To willingly admit defeat, e.g. When the
soldiers realized they were completely outnumbered by the enemy, they gave
up without fighting.
To hand someone or something to someone
else, e.g. give up one’s seat in a bus to an old lady; the
missing men were given up for dead.
To shop hoping that someone or something
will change for the better, e.g. The parents have given up on their
drug addict son.
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358.
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glance at/through
glance off
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To look at or through quickly, e.g.
glance through a photo album.
To strike a surface at an angle and
bounce off in another direction.
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359.
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glass … in
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To cover something with glass or build a
glass structure around something.
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360.
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glory in
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To take great pride or pleasure in
something, such as praise, people’s attention, etc.
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361.
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gloss over
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To prevent something from being known by
avoiding talking about them.
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362.
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gnaw at
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To make someone feel uneasy or
distressed.
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363.
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go about
go after
go against
go ahead
go along with
go around
go away
go back
go back on
go by
go down
go for
go in
go in for
go into
go off
go on
go out
go over
go round
go through
go through with
go under
go up
go ... up
go with
go without
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To begin or continue doing something,
e.g. I wish I knew how to go aboutstarting a business.
To do something that you usually do.
To pursue someone, especially to
apprehend them, e.g. Having arrested most of the gang members, the police
are going after the leaders.
To oppose or resist something or someone;
To have something such as a judgement,
etc. that is unfavourable to you.
To go earlier than other members of the
group; to proceed.
To agree with someone or something, e.g.
The majority of the members voted for him as they go along with what
he proposed.
(Illness, news, etc.) to pass from person
to person, e.g. There’s a rumour going around in the
workplace that the manager is keeping a secret lover.
To be enough for everyone to have a
share, e.g. There aren’t enough blankets to go around, and some
of the evacuees may suffer the cold.
To deliberately do something to offend
people, e.g. The new manager goes around telling everyone in
sight to put in more effort in their work.
To behave in an unacceptable way, e.g.
The cleaner goes around chatting loudly with everyone in the
office.
To go from place to place looking for
something, e.g. A bargain hunting housewife goes around from
store to store looking for the really cheap, discounted items on sale.
To leave a place or person, e.g. Jack
bade his friend farewell and went awayleaving his friend alone on
a park bench.
To spend some time elsewhere, e.g. We
are going away for a holiday next week.
(Condition, difficulty, etc.) to
gradually disappear, e.g. She’s on mediation for her backache and the pain is
slowly going away.
To return to where you have come from,
e.g. He has to go back for his wallet which he left behind.
His smoking habit goes back to
his early childhood.
To break a promise or an agreement, e.g.
He went back on his promise to his wife that he would never
to see his ex-lover again.
To pass near something or place, e.g.
Every day I go by his house on my way to work.
(Time) to pass away, e.g. Five years have gone
by since she passed away, and memory of her lives on.
To strictly obey or refer to something,
or use it as a guide, e.g. Deeply religious people go by their
holy books.
To have an opinion of someone or
something, e.g. To choose an employee, would an employer go by looks?
To get to a lower level e.g. When the
doorbell rang, he went downstairs to answer it.
To get down to another place, e.g. After
breakfast we went down to the pool for a swim.
To lose in a match, contest, etc., e.g.
They went down 2 -1 in the final.
To get an unfavourable reaction or
perception, e.g. His critical attitude does not go down well
with his friends and colleagues.
(Something such as computer system, etc.)
to stop working, e.g. Long queues formed in the bank as its computer system went
down.
To choose a course of action, e g.
The captain chose to go down with the ship.
To become lower, e.g. The price of
tomatoes has gone down, attracting many buyers.
To disappear from sight, e.g. We played
football until the sun had gone down.
To try to get or gain something or get
someone.
To decide on achieving something, e.g. He
intends, after completing his education, to go for professional
sports.
To have a preference, e.g. She goes
for tall men.
To enter a place such as a building, e.g.
We went in as soon as they opened the doors of the cinema.
To attack someone physically or verbally.
To enter a contest, etc. or take an
examination, etc, e.g. She decided to go in for the quiz
show on television.
To like or do something often, e.g. When
he was young, he would go in for any kind of sea sports.
To enter a profession, business, e.g. I
decided not to go into that commercial venture with him.
To expend something on doing something,
e.g. A great of time, money, and resources have gone into producing
this scientific paper.
To sort out details of something, e.g.
They have been going into the details of the draft agreement
to finalize it before the meeting.
(Gun, bomb, etc.) to fire or explode,
e.g. Someone planted a bomb in the police station but it didn’t go
off.
(Alarm) to sound, e.g. .Every morning he
can only wake up when the second alarm clock goes off.
(Machine, system, etc.) to stop
operating, e.g. Every worker leaves the building before the central
heating goes off at 8 o’clock.
To do something, e.g. to go
off to sleep.
To continue to do something, e.g.
to go on working on it;
To take place, e.g. something goes
on in that building.
To talk for a long time.
To go on with the speech after the break.
To take medication, e.g. go on the
pill.
To leave the home for some place, e.g.
Everyone goes out except me as I have a television program
to watch.
(Tide) to ebb, e.g. Tonight we sit at
seaside to watch the tide going out to sea.
(Fire) to stop burning, e.g. Firemen
battled the forest fire for five straight days before it went out.
To carry on a romantic relationship, e.g.
Jack is the only one Jill goes out with, but one cannot be
sure about Jack.
To visit someone at their house,
e.g. go over to uncle’s house.
To move to another place, e.g. go
over to the kitchen for a drink.
To examine or check something, e.g.
We go over the documents and discuss their contents.
To explain something, e.g. Some students
don’t understand the passage, so the teacher goes over it.
To change religion, etc, to go
over from this religion to that one.
To be enough, e.g. not enough chairs
to go round;
To spread, e.g. a rumour goes
round that ….
To search through or examine carefully,
e.g. to go through the files.
To suffer from an ordeal, bitter
experience, etc.
To be officially approved, e.g. the bill
has gone through parliament with majority approval.
To look for something, e.g. have to go
through this drawer to find it.
To do something despite opposition, danger,
difficulty, etc., e.g. The government decided to go through with its
proposal to legalize prostitution despite strong opposition from many
quarters.
(Ship, etc.) To sink.
(Business) to become bankrupt.
To burn or explode, e.g. to go up in
flames.
To increase in price, quality, etc., e.g.
The increase in demand for flour has caused its price to go up.
To reach further up, e.g. He has gone
up the hill twice.
To move from lower to higher level, or
from south to north, e.g. We seldom go up to his house as
the weather there is so much colder.
To confront another person, e.g.
She went straight up to him and told him
off.
To have a romantic relationship with
someone.
To accept an idea, etc., e.g. We all have
decided to go with his proposal.
To escort, e.g. mother goes with her
young daughter to the shop.
To match an item of clothing with
another, e.g. She is searching her wardrobe for a skirt to go with her
blouse.
To experience lack or deprivation,
e.g. go without food for two days.
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364.
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goof around
goof off
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To waste time doing silly things, e.g.
He goofs around maybe to prove something, but nobody knows
what.
To idle or avoid doing any work.
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365.
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gouge … out
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To cut or force something out roughly or
violently.
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366.
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grab at
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To quickly seize something with the hand.
To immediately seize an opportunity that
is offered.
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367.
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graft off
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To gain money or advantages by dishonest
use of influence.
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368.
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grapple with
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To strive to cope with a difficult
problem.
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369.
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grasp at
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To seize and hold firmly on to something.
To accept an opportunity eagerly.
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370.
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grass … over
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To cover land with grass.
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371.
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grind away
grind … down
grind on
grind … out
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To work or study hard.
To overwhelm someone with long cruel
treatment.
To continue for an unpleasantly long
time.
To produce something laboriously.
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372.
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gross … out
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To make someone feel disgusted by
something, e.g. The sight of natives eating cooked rats for a meal really
grossed them out.
To add deductions, etc. to a net amount.
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373.
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ground in
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To learn the basics in order to do
something.
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374.
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grow apart
grow into
grow on
grow out of
grow up
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(Relationship) to become less close.
(Child’s clothes) to become big enough to
wear when the child grows into clothes.
To develop into a particular kind of
person or thing over time.
To learn successfully to do a job or deal
with a situation.
(Someone or something) to become more
attractive or interesting.
(Child’s clothes) to become too big to
wear when the child grows out of clothes, e.g. She has grown out
of her clothes and is not sure to throw or give them away.
To develop into something bigger or more
serious.
To no longer do the thing one does when
small, e.g. He has grown out of climbing trees.
(Child) to develop to maturity or
adulthood.
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375.
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grub … up/out
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To dig something out of the ground.
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376.
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guard against
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To take precautions against something
happening.
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377.
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gulp … back
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To refrain from expressing one’s
feelings.
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378.
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gum … up
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To clog up something and prevent it from
working properly.
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379.
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gun … down
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To shoot someone with a gun.
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380.
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gussy … up
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To make someone or something more
attractive
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381.
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gutter out
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To become gradually weaker and then stops
completely.
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382.
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hack into
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To use or change someone’s information on
their computer system.
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383.
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hail … as
hail from
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To acclaim someone or something in
newspapers, magazines, etc.
To have been born in a particular place.
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384.
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hammer in/into
hammer out
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To instill something into someone
forcefully and repeatedly.
To laboriously work out the details of an
agreement, plan, etc.
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385.
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hand … around
hand … back
hand … down
hand … in
hand ... on
hand ... out
hand over
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To distribute to all members of a group.
To pass back or return something to
someone, e.g. The traffic policeman handed my driving
licence back to me after inspecting it.
To leave something to a successor or
those who come after oneself, such as a son, daughter, etc.
To pass or announce something such as a
verdict, punishment, etc.
To give something to a person in
authority, e.g. to hand in one’s papers at the end of an
examination, or to hand in a resignation letter.
To pass something to another person.
To distribute something among a group or
publicly.
To pass a verdict, punishment or penalty,
etc. on someone.
To pass someone or something to someone
else for a reason, e.g. He handedhis ticket over to
the ticket collector.
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386.
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hang about
hang around
hang around with
hang back
hang in
hang on
hang on to
hang out
hang together
hang up
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To spend time at a place without a good
purpose.
To loiter or wait somewhere needlessly,
e.g. They like to gather in a group and hang around a
shopping centre.
To spend a lot of time with someone.
To remain behind or unwilling to move
around and mix with others.
To remain persistent and determined in
difficult circumstances.
To hold tightly onto something, e.g.
She hung tightly on to the rail to prevent
herself from falling.
To continue doing something in spite of
difficulties, e.g. He has to hang on until the next shift
worker arrives to take over.
To rely on someone or something, e.g.
Does the relay race hang largely on the
ability of the last runner to run very fast?
To ask someone to wait for a short while,
e.g. Please hang on. He’ll be taking over in a while.
To keep something and reluctant to let
go.
To be at some place or with some people
for some time, e.g. After he dropped out of school he can be seen very
often hanging out with a couple of friends at the shopping
centre.
To hang something such as clothes, etc.
outside to dry them, e.g. I hung outmy shoes to dry this morning
and now they have gone missing.
To cooperate and work towards the same
goal.
To put the telephone down, e.g. We had
to hang up as we had been talking for more than an hour.
To put something up on a hook, etc., e.g.
She is always hanging up several clothes on one hook.
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387.
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hanker after/for
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To secretly harbour a strong feeling of
wanting to have something.
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388.
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happen by
happen on
happen to
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To find a place by chance.
To come across something or meet someone
by chance.
To experience a misfortune.
To wonder the whereabouts and wellbeing
of someone after a long time, e.g. whatever happened to my
niece?
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389.
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hark back
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To recall things that happened in the
past.
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390.
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harp on
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To talk or write continuously and
tediously on a topic.
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391.
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haul … up
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To officially bring someone to a court of
law to be judged.
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392.
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have on
have … on
have … out
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To be wearing something, e.g. He has on a
hat imported from Mexico.
To be using something, e.g. Each time he
has the radio on it has to be extremely loud.
To have something removed, e.g. to have
the appendix out by medical operation.
To bring someone to court to answer for
an alleged offence.
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393.
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haze over
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To become hazy.
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394.
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head back
head for
head off
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To return to a place where one was
before, e.g. I had to head back when I realized I had left my wallet at home.
To move toward one’s destination, e.g. I
am headed for Montreal and have to speed up in order to arrive there before
it gets dark.
To intercept and prevent something from
happening.
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395.
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heal over
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(Wound) to have new skins grown over it
and become healthy again.
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396.
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hear from
hear of
hear ... out
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To receive news from someone by letter,
telephone call, etc.
To have knowledge of something or
someone’s existence, e.g. I had never heard of Black Hole
until recently.
To listen to all that someone wants to
say.
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397.
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heat up
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To become or to make something warm or
hot, e.g. By the time I arrived home with the pizza, it had cooled down so I
had to heat it up.
(Situation) to become unstable or
dangerous.
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398.
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heave to
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(Ship) to turn across the wind in order
to stop moving.
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399.
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hedge … in
hedge against
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To be enclosed by something, e.g. a
park hedged in with trees.
To feel restricted.
To protect against possible problems,
especially financial loss.
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400.
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heel over
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To lean to one side as if going to fall,
e.g. ship heels over in the storm.
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