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Given below are some commonly used phrasal verbs with their meanings.

Phrasal Verb Meaning(s) Phrasal Verb Meaning(s)
to be on good terms; await/anticipate
get along look forward to
work well with with pleasure
get away to escape look up to admire and respect

to manage; to cope; pick on criticise
get by
to survive put away keep in another place
get in to enter cut back reduce spending
get into to enter loosen up relax
resemble in pour down rain
take after appearance or pop off explode
character make a living with
take care of look after scratch out great difficulty
remove; leave the
take off seal off block/prevent access
ground to

hire or engage staff;
take on set off start a journey
accept a challenge shake off to get rid of
take out remove; extract spruce up to smarten up
look down on consider as inferior splash out spend a lot of money
look on be a spectator stay in the same
look for search stick around place for a long time

Phrasal verbs are nearly always made up of a verb and a particle. A particle is a preposition
or an adverb that accompanies the verb in a phrasal verb. The most common adverb particles
used to form phrasal verbs are around, away, down, in, off, on, out, over, round, up, etc.
An intransitive phrasal verb does not need an object. For example:
She was so tired that she lay down and drifted off. (went to sleep)
O
A transitive phrasal verb needs an object to make sense. For example:
We cannot put off the problem.
O
Study the tables below to understand the particles used to form phrasal verbs.
Phrasal Verbs bring Verb about, around, back, give Verb away, back, off, up

Particles Used
Particles Used

forward, in, off, out,
back, down, in, on,
hand
round, up
out, over, round
buy
out, up
knock
down, out, over
call
off, up, upon
leave
aside, behind, out
carry
back, down, off, out,
down, over, round
pass
cut off, out let down, in, on, off, out
up point out
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