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