Phrasal Verbs with ‘Put’, ‘Run’, ‘See’, ‘Pay’, ‘Take’, ‘Turn’, ‘Stand’, ‘Set’, and ‘Wear’

Posted on Jan 28, 2025 in Naval Architecture

Phrasal Verbs with *Put*

  • Arrive (of trains): Pull in
  • Attribute something to something else: Put down to
  • Allow (debts, bills) to increase: Run up
  • Cause to be delayed: Put back
  • Cause to take place: Put on
  • Cause inconvenience to somebody: Put out
  • Connect by telephone: Put through
  • Discourage somebody from liking something: Put off
  • Dress oneself in: Put on
  • Extinguish (fire, etc.): Put out
  • Increase (in weight): Put on
  • Increase (of prices): Put up
  • Make a note: Put down
  • Make somebody undergo or suffer something: Put through
  • Offer something for sale: Put up
  • Offer hospitality: Put up
  • Put somebody into prison or mental hospital: Put away
  • Pay a deposit for something: Put down
  • Postpone: Put off
  • Pretend: Put on
  • Save: Put aside
  • Switch on: Put on
  • Tolerate: Put up with

Phrasal Verbs with *Run*

  • Collide with something in a vehicle: Run into
  • Experience (difficulties): Run into
  • Knock down and damage or wound: Run down
  • Meet somebody/find something by chance: Run across
  • Meet somebody unexpectedly: Run into
  • No longer have a supply of something: Run out (of)
  • Overflow: Run over
  • Practice: Run through
  • Repeat: Run through
  • Steal something and leave with it: Run away with
  • Speak badly of somebody: Run down
  • Stop working (batteries, clock): Run down

Phrasal Verbs with *See*

  • Accompany a traveler to his plane, train: See off
  • Care for somebody: See to
  • Last until the end of (a period of time): See out
  • Make inquiries about or arrangements about something: See about
  • Make sure that somebody leaves: See off
  • Not be deceived by somebody: See through

Phrasal Verbs with *Pay*

  • Get revenge on somebody: Pay back
  • Receive punishment for a wrongdoing: Pay for

Phrasal Verbs with *Take*

  • Admit saying something wrong: Take back
  • Accept somebody’s offer or invitation: Take up on
  • Be strongly surprised: Be taken aback
  • Be deceived: Be taken in
  • Begin a hobby, sport: Take up
  • Employ: Take on
  • Extract: Take out
  • Gain control of something: Take over
  • Look or act like a relative: Take after
  • Leave the ground (of planes): Take off
  • Like: Take to
  • Make clothes narrower: Take in
  • Remove: Take away
  • Remove clothes: Take off
  • Separate into pieces so as to repair or remove: Take down
  • Start to improve: Take off
  • Seize from people: Take away
  • Take somebody to a restaurant: Take somebody out
  • Be allowed not to go to work for: Take time off

Phrasal Verbs with *Turn*

  • Arrive or appear (unexpectedly): Turn up
  • Become: Turn into
  • Change into, become: Turn into
  • Change TV channel: Turn over
  • Deliver somebody (to the police): Turn somebody over to somebody
  • Empty (one’s pockets): Turn out
  • Force somebody to leave: Turn out
  • Give somebody to the police: Turn somebody in
  • Go to somebody for help: Turn to
  • Increase (volume): Turn up
  • Not allow somebody to enter a place: Turn away
  • Produce: Turn out
  • Prove to be in the end: Turn out
  • Refuse an offer: Turn down
  • Result: Turn out
  • Reject: Turn down
  • Reduce volume: Turn down
  • Switch off: Turn off
  • Switch on: Turn on
  • Turn to a new page: Turn over
  • Advice: Turn to

Phrasal Verbs with *Stand*

  • Be an abbreviation for: Stand for
  • Be noticeable: Stand out
  • Defend oneself against: Stand up to
  • Fail to meet: Stand up
  • Replace somebody temporarily: Stand in for
  • Resist: Stand up to
  • Support somebody, especially in difficulties: Stand by
  • Support somebody or something: Stand up for
  • Without fear: Stand up to

Phrasal Verbs with *Set*

  • Begin/start a journey: Set out
  • Intend (to do something): Set out
  • Save for a special purpose: Set aside
  • Start and seem likely to continue: Set in
  • Start a business: Set up

Phrasal Verbs with *Wear*

  • Disappear gradually (of feelings): Wear off
  • Exhaust: Wear out
  • Make somebody gradually weaker: Wear somebody down
  • Use until no longer serviceable: Wear out

Other Phrasal Verbs

  • Bear: Put up with
  • Demolish a structure: Pull down
  • Develop successfully: Work out
  • Develop: Work up
  • Fill (time, space): Fill in
  • Find the solution to a problem by: Work out
  • Have an effect on: Work on
  • Slow down and stop: Pull up
  • Survive: Pull through
  • Support somebody in difficulties: Stand by