Common English Phrasal Verbs: Look, Come, Go, Get, Take, and Put
Common English Phrasal Verbs
Look
Look Up
Definition: Find or search for particular information – Get better – Visit someone you know.
Look Up To
Definition: Admire – Respect someone.
Look After
Definition: Take care of someone or something – To be responsible for something – Take care of yourself.
Look Like
Definition: To appear likely to happen – To resemble someone or something.
Look Through
Definition: Read something quickly – To search for something in particular among other things – To pretend you don’t know someone you know.
Look At
Definition: Move your eyes to see someone or something – Think about something carefully – Read or examine something – To exemplify.
Look On
Definition: Watch/observe – To think of someone in a particular way.
Look For
Definition: Hope to get something – Search for someone or something.
Look Out
Definition: Used to warn someone of someone or something.
Come
Come Across
Definition: To meet, find, or discover someone or something by chance – Idea easy to understand.
Come Back
Definition: To return to a particular place or person – To become or start doing something again – To remember.
Come Down
Definition: Get low – Accept a lower price – Travel from the south to a lower part – To fall to the ground.
Come In
Definition: To receive information or money – To enter somewhere – Assume a role or function.
Come Off
Definition: To fall from something that you’re hiding – Remove, clean, wash up – Stop being fixed – Achieve success in an activity.
Come On
Definition: To walk onto the stage – To join a team – To improve – Used to hurry someone or something – Begin to operate.
Come Out
Definition: Become known – To be removed – To be spoken in a particular way – Easy to notice.
Come Round
Definition: To occur again – To visit – To be persuaded – To revise someone’s opinion.
Come To
Definition: To enter your mind – To add up to something – To reach a particularly bad situation/arrive.
Come Up
Definition: To move towards someone – To become available – To happen – To be chosen.
Come Down With
Definition: To start to suffer from an illness.
Come Up With
Definition: To think of something – Produce or provide something that people want.
Go
Go Away
Definition: To move or travel from a person or place – Leave for holidays.
Go Into
Definition: Start working in a particular job – Talk in detail about something – Start a long explanation.
Go Over
Definition: To check carefully – To search a place thoroughly – Repeat in order to learn something – Clean something quickly.
Go By
Definition: Time passing – To base an opinion on something – Use a particular name – Stop in a place for a while.
Go Off
Definition: To explode or be fired – Stop working – Being no longer fresh – Start to sleep – Suddenly become angry.
Go Through
Definition: Examine carefully – Experience something unpleasant – Practice something – Perform everyday actions.
Go Down
Definition: Sink – Be remembered as – To produce a particular reaction – Swallow – Become less respected – Get off a vehicle.
Go On
Definition: Continue happening – Begin an activity – To continue working – To talk too much – Let go – Time passing – Taking something after a pause.
Go Up
Definition: To increase – To be built – Be very visible – Gradually become more – Go to university.
Go For
Definition: Compete for – Like a particular kind of person – To choose a particular thing – To be true.
Go Out
Definition: Go out for enjoyment – Travel far away – To protest – Stop being fashionable.
Go With
Definition: Be offered with something – Have a romantic relationship – Choose or accept something.
Get
Get Away
Definition: Escape from a person or place – Go for holiday.
Get Out
Definition: Avoid responsibilities – Get pleasure from something – Take off clothes.
Get On
Definition: Get into any vehicle – Be on TV or radio – To be successful in life.
Get Out Of
Definition: Avoid something by escaping – Get back freedom – Go beyond the top.
Go On With
Definition: To continue happening or doing something as before – To happen.
Go Round
Definition: Become public – Solve something – Handle or manage someone or something.
Get Round To
Definition: Start something – Start to solve something.
Get By
Definition: To have just enough money – Get by on, to live – Get by with, manage and be good.
Get Over
Definition: Start to feel unhappy after a bad event – Find a way to solve or deal with a problem – Get across.
Get In
Definition: Arrive at home/work – Be accepted in a college or university.
Get Off
Definition: Stop touching someone or something – Have holidays – Finish and leave work – To be punished.
Get Through
Definition: Deal with something – Be connected by phone.
Get Up
Definition: Organize in a particular way – Have an erection – Increasing – Dress in a particular way.
Take
Take After
Definition: To look or behave like an older relative.
Take Off
Definition: To remove clothes – To rise in the air.
Take On
Definition: Start to employ someone – Agree to do something.
Take Out
Definition: Start to employ someone – Agree to do something – Begin to have a particular quality or appearance.
Take Down
Definition: To move something or someone to a lower position.
Take Back
Definition: To admit that you were wrong.
Take In
Definition: To let someone enter and be in your house – To visit a place – To make a piece of clothing smaller.
Take Up
Definition: To become interested in a new activity – Start a new job – Start to solve a problem.
Put
Put Away
Definition: Put something in its place – Save money – Eat or drink a lot.
Put Back
Definition: Put people or things in their place or situation – Delay a process – Make someone recover something.
Put Down
Definition: Put something or someone on a surface – Stop a process – Pay a part of a total cost.
Put Off
Definition: To make someone not want to do something – Make someone not like someone or something.
Put Someone Up
Definition: To make someone feel nervous or frightened.
Put On
Definition: To cover a part of your body with a piece of clothing or jewelry so that you are wearing it.
Put Up With
Definition: To accept someone or something unpleasant in a patient way.
Put Forward
Definition: To offer an idea, so that people can discuss it and make a decision.
Put Out
Definition: To make something stop burning.
Put In
Definition: To spend a particular amount of time doing something.
Put Through
Definition: To make someone do or experience something difficult or unpleasant.