Phrasal verbs
Posted by Daniel Kühl Lima in Misc Oct 2nd, 2009 | no responses
Alguns termos em inglês não são o que realmente parecem ser, no caso, as Phrasal Verbs são expressões com aparentemente ao “pé da letra” querem dizer uma coisa mas o real significado é outro.
Abaixo estão algumas das mais utilizadas. Espero que seja útil!
– Drop off: fall asleep
Ask out- invite to go somewhere
Back up- support
Blow up- inflates; explode
Blurt out- say something unexpectedly
Boil over- overflow by boiling
Boil down- reduce
Boil up- increase to a dangerous level
Break down- stop working (machine), destroy
Break off- stop speaking,
Break up- destroy, separate.
Break up with- end a relationship
Bring back- return
Bring up- mention; raise children
Burn down- burn a building to the ground
Burn up- destroy by burning
Call up- telephone
Call off- cancel
Calm down- become calmer
Catch up with- become equal to; level with
Chase down- follow someone to catch them
Cheer up- make someone happy
Chicken out- be afraid to continue an action
Clear up- correct a misunderstanding
Close down- cease a business
Come across- find by chance
Come back- begin again after inactivity
Come over- happen to
Come into- inherit
Come in- become fashionable
Come out- be published, be known
Come up- move near, happen
Come up with- invent
Cross out- remove or eliminate by drawing a line through it
Cut down- reduce something to save money, make something fall by cutting
Do away with- get rid of, eliminate or finish
Dream up- imagine
Dress up- dress fomally
Drop off – fall asleep
Drown out- overwhelm with noise
Dry off- remove moisture from a surface
Egg on- encourage
Explain away- give an excuse for something
Fade away- gradually disappear
Fizzle out- become ineffective
Fight off- defend successfully
Figure out- find an answer, calculate
Fill in/out- complete a form
Find out- discover
Fix up- repair or renovate
Flunk out- fail in school
Get across- make understandable
Get away- escape unpunished
Get down- depress
Get for- obtain
Get over- recover from a shock or illness
Get up- leave bed in the morning
Give away- distribute at no cost
Give back- return something to the owner
Give in- surrender
Give up- quit
Give up on- stop trying
Go away- take something without permission
Go off- turn sour, switched off
Go over- examine, review.
Go down- become lower
Go out- go outside socially
Go on- continue
Go through with- continue with resolve
Go with- date exclusively
Goof off- waste time
Goof up- make a mistake
Grow up- get bigger and older
Hand in- submit
Hand out- distribute
Hand over- surrender something
Hang in- keep going in the spite of the difficulties
Hang out- spend free time somewhere
Hang on- wait, specially on the phone
Hang up- put a telephone receiver down
Hang around- be in a place without purpose or activity
Hang down- become lower
Keep away from- avoid
Keep after- continue insisting
Keep back- control feelings, keep something secret, cause to remain at a distance.
Keep off- make someone stay away from a place (the place must be mentioned)
Keep on- continue
Knock out- make someone lose consciousness
Lead on- give false hope to someone
Leave out- omit
Let down- disappoint
Lighten up- become less serious
Look over- examine; inspect
Look up – find information a reference book
Look after- take care of someone
Look down on- have a poor opinion of; disdain
Look up to- admire
Make up- create; invent
Make up with- reestablish a relationship
Make over- remake
Make out- understand
Make off with- steal
Mark down- discount a price
Mess up- make something disorganized or dirty
Mix up- confuse
Pass out- faint
Pass over- overlook
Pencil in- make a tentative appointment
Pick in- make hole in
Pick out- select; choose
Pick off- remove something, especially from a plant
Pick up- come to get; lift something, give someone a ride.
Point out- show; mention
Put away- store, put something in its place
Put across- make an idea understood and well received.
Put back- return to a customary place
Put down- place something on a surface; insult
Put off- postpone; delay
Put on- wear
Put out- extinguish something burning
Put up with- tolerate
Reach up- try to win, have hope and expectations for the future
Rip up- tear into small pieces
Run across- find or meet by chance
Run away- escape
Run about- run with out direction for fun
Run after- try to gain attention of someone from the opposite sex, pursue something.
Run around- keep company change lovers frequently
Run down- wound someone with a vehicle
Run into- collide; meet unexpectedly
Run off- print
Run out of- to have no further supply of, to lack
Run over- hit someone with a vehicle
Screw up- make a mistake
See about- make the arrangements
Set down- make or fix such as a rule
Set off- begin a journey
Set up- start a business
Show off- act conspicuously
Slow down- make something go more slowly
Speed up- move faster
Stand for- represent
Stand by- support
Stay up- not go to bed
Take away- remove
Take back- return; retract a statement
Take in- give shelter; deceive; adjust in size
Take off- remove clothes; leave, rise from the ground.
Take on- accept a challenge
Take over- win control of
Take out- act as host on a date
Take up- begin to take interest in.
Talk over- discuss
Tear up- rip into small pieces
Tell off- express angry response to someone
Think over- consider carefully
Think up- create, plan
Throw away- discard
Throw up- vomit
Try on- test the way something fits
Try out- test the way something works
Turn around- face the opposite direction
Turn down- decrease the sound level, refuse an offer or invitation
Turn off- stop the operation of a machine
Turn on- start the operation of a machine
Turn up- increase the sound level
Wear away/down- reduce gradually
Wake up- become awake
Wear out- use until its finished
Wear off- cease gradually.
Work out- resolve, calculate, exercise
Write down- make a note of something
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