Common Phrasal Verbs List
[Ask out: ask someone to go on a date
Bring about, bring on: cause
Bring up: (1) rear children; (2) mention or introduce a topic
Call back: return a telephone call
Call in: ask to come to an official place for a specific purpose
Call off: cancel
Call on: (1) ask someone to speak in class; (2) visit
Call up: call on the telephone
Catch up (with): ***** the same position or level
Check in, check into: register at a hotel
Check into: investigate
Check out: (1) take a book from the library; (2) investigate
Check out (of): leave a hotel
Cheer up: make (someone) feel happier
Clean up: make clean and orderly
Come across: meet/find by chance
Cross up: draw a line through
Cut out: stop an annoying activity
Do over: do again
Drop by, drop in (on): visit informally
Drop off: leave something/someone at a place
Drop out (of): stop going to school, to a class, to a club, etc.
Figure out: find the answer by reasoning
Fill out: write the answer to a questionnaire or complete an official form
Find out: discover information
Get along (with): exist satisfactorily
Get back (from): (1) return from a place; (2) receive again
Get in, get into: (1) enter a car; (2) arrive
Get off: leave an airplane, a bus, a train, a subway, a bicycle
Get on: enter an airplane, a bus, a train, a subway, a bicycle
Get out of: (1) leave a car; (2) avoid work or unpleasant activity
Get over: recover from an illness
Get through (with): finish
Get up (from): arise from a bed, a chair
Give back: return an item to someone
Give up: stop trying
Go over: review or check carefully
Grow up: become an adult
Hand in: submit an assignment
Hang up: (1) conclude a telephone conversation; (2) put ******* on a hanger or a hook
Have on: wear
Keep out (of): not enter
Keep up (with): stay at the same position or level
Kick out (of): force (someone) to leave
Look after: take care of
Look into: investigate
Look out (for): be careful
Look over: review or check carefully
Look up: look for information in a reference book
Make up: (1) invent; (2) do past due work
Name after, Name for: give a baby the name of someone else
Pass away, Pass on: die
Pass out: distribute
Pass out: lose consciousness
Pick out: select
Pick up: (1) go to get someone (e.g., in a car); (2) take in one’s hand
Point out: call attention to
Put away: remove to a proper place
Put back: return to original place
Put off: postpone
Put on: put ******* on one’s body
Put out: extinguish a cigarette, cigar, or fire
Put up with: tolerate
Run into, run across: meet by chance
Run out (of): finish a supply of something
Show up: appear, come
Shut off: stop a machine, light, faucet
Take after: resemble
Take off: (1) remove clothing; (2) leave on a trip
Take out: (1) take someone on a date; (2) remove
Take over: take control
Take up: begin a new activity or topic
Tear down: demolish, reduce to nothing
Tear up: tear into many little pieces
Think over: consider carefully
Throw away, throw out: discard, get rid of
Throw up: vomit, regurgitate food
Try on: put on clothing to see if it fits
Turn down: decrease volume or intensity
Turn in: (1) submit an assignment; (2) go to bed
Turn off: stop a machine, light, faucet
Turn on: start a machine, light, faucet
Turn out: extinguish a light
Turn up: increase volume or intensity
Wake up: stop sleeping
Watch out: be careful
Write down: write on a piece of paper