Phrasal Verbs Examples With Meaning
Table of Contents • • Useful Phrasal Verbs with UP • Blow up(explode): The car blew up after it crashed into the wall. • Break up(End a romantic relationship): Eva and her boyfriend broke up last week. • Bring up(Look after a child until it grows up, usually children): They brough their children up to be responsible adults. • Bring up(Introduce or mention a subject): Bring it up at the meeting!
This lesson explains the basic principles behind phrasal verbs with UP: illustrations, definitions, examples, tips, practice story, final quiz, and answers. For many students, one of the most difficult parts of learning English is studying phrasal verbs. A phrasal verb is a verb that is combined with an adverb or preposition.
English Phrasal Verbs Examples
• Build up(Make a business bigger, to develop contacts or a presence in the market): We have built up the business over the years and it now employs over 20 people.” • Build up(Increase over time): It’s important to build your muscle strength up over time. • Burn up(Destroy something completely with fire): The spacecraft burned up as it entered the earth’s atmosphere. • Burn up(Make somebody very angry): The way he treats me really burns me up.
• Burn up(Have a high temperature): You’re burning up—have you seen a doctor? • Call up(Telephone): I’m going to call up and cancel my subscription.
• Call up(Bring back to your mind): The smell of the sea called up memories of her childhood. • Catch up(Reach somebody who’s in front of you): Go on ahead. I’ll catch up with you. • Catch up(To reach the same level or standard as somebody who was better or more advanced): After missing a term through illness he had to work hard to catch up with the others. • Catch up(To do something that you have not been able to do recently): Recently, I’ve had a lot of science homework. This weekend, I need to catch up on my reading for English class.
• Check up(To make sure that somebody is doing what they should be doing): My parents are always checking upon me. • Check up(Obtain information about somebody or something to find out if something is true or correct): I need to check up on a few things before I can decide. • Cheer up(To make someone happier): Can you cheer Tim up? • Chop up(Cut into small pieces): Can you chop up some carrots for me? • Come up(Happen unexpectedly): I’m afraid I can’t make the meeting tomorrow. Something has come up.” • Divide up(Distribute): We can divide up the commission among the sales staff.
• Divide up(Force up the prices or costs): The uncertainty in the markets is dividing up labour costs. • Do up(Fasten up): Do you know how to do up your seat belt? • Do up(Arrange hair so that it’s tied or fastened close): Although be when do up one’s hair, drop a lot of hairs accordingly, also cannot explain you begin bald-headed. • Do up(To repair and decorate a house, etc.): He makes money by buying old houses and doing them up.
• Dress up(To wear a fancy dress, a costume to disguise yourself): He dressed up as a pirate, for the party. • Dress up(Put on clothes): There’s no need to dress up—come as you are.
• Eat up(To eat all the food that you’ve been given): If you eat up all your vegetables, you can have dessert. • End up(Eventually do/decide): We ended up going to the theatre instead of the gallery. • Get up(Get out of bed): I got up early this morning and went for a walk. • Give up(To abandon to do something/To stop doing something): Time to give up!
• Go up(To increase): The price of gas went up in March. • Grow up(To become an adult): I’m 18, I’m a grown-up now! • Heat up(To make hotter): I’ll heat the soup up for lunch. • Hurry up(To do something faster, to get ready faster): Could you please hurry up?!
Phrasal Verbs Examples With Meanings
• Keep up(Continue at the same rate): Slow down! I can’t keep up.