Angielski - Phrasal verbs

 

 

Spis treści

A - B , C-E , F-J , K- O, P-S , T- Z

 

Keel over

- Turn upside down
- Surrender, give in
- Fall to the ground

Keep around

- Keep something near you

Keep at

- Continue with something difficult

Keep away

- Don't allow someone near something

Keep back

- Maintain a safe distance

Keep down

- Not vomit

Keep from

- Control yourself, refrain

Keep in

- Not allow someone out

Keep off

- Not talk about
- Not tread on something

Keep on

- Continue

Keep out

- Not allow someone to enter

Keep to

- Stay within limits

Keep up

- Not let someone go to bed

Keep up at

- Continue, not quit

Keep up with

- Move at the same rate
- Stay up to date

Key in

- Enter numbers or information into a computer or electronic system

Kick about (around)

- Discuss

Kick around with

- Spend time with

Kick back

- Pay someone illegally as part of the price
- Resist

Kick down

- Break something with your feet

Kick in

- When a drug starts to take effect
- Break something with your feet

Kick off

- Start a game of football
- Die
- When trouble starts
- Argue, protest and refuse to co-operate

Kick out

- Expel

Kick up

- Cause trouble or pain

Knock about

- Beat someone

Knock down

- Demolish
- Hit and injure someone

Knock it off!

- Stop doing something annoying

Knock off

- Finish work for the day

Knock out

- Hit and make somebody unconscious
- Sell, distribute

Knock up

- Become or get someone pregnant.
- Play a bit before a match to get ready

Knuckle down

- Make a great effort

Knuckle under

- Submit to authority

Lap up

- Appreciate something

Large it up

- Have a good time when intoxicated

Lark about

- Behave in a silly way

Lark around

- Behave in a silly way

Lay down

- Establish rules or procedures
- Kill, murder

Lay into

- Criticise angrily

Lay off

- Make an employee redundant

Lay on

- Organise, supply

Lay out

- Spend money

Lead to

- Result in

Leak out

- Become public knowledge

Lean on

- Put pressure on someone to get them to do what you want

Leave on

- Not turn off

Leave out

- Not include

Let down

- Disappoint, fail to keep an arrangement
- Make clothes longer

Let in

- Allow someone to enter

Let off

- Not punish

Let on

- Tell a secret

Let out

- Allow to leave or go out
- Make a sound
- Make clothes bigger

Lie down

- Rest

Lie with

- Have the right to make a decision

Lift off

- Leave the ground- rocket or spaceship

Light up

- Light or start smoking a cigarette
- Illuminate

Lighten up

- Be less serious

Line up

- Arrange in a line
- Arrange something in a line
- Arrange events for someone

Listen out for

- Listen for a particular noise or sound

Live by

- Follow a belief system to guide your behaviour

Live down

- Stop being embarrassed about something

Live for

- Believe something is extremely important

Live in

- Live in the place where you work or study.

Live it up

- Have a good time by spending a lot of money

Live off

- Use money earned

Live on

- Use money for basic necessities
- Not be forgotten

Live out

- Stay somewhere until you die
- Fulfill an ambition or fantasy
- Not live at the place where you study or work

Live through

- Experience different times

Live together

- Have a relationship and live in the same place without marrying

Live up to

- Meet expectations or standards

Live with

- Accept something unpleasant
- Have a relationship and live in the same place without marrying

Load down

- Burden

Load up

- Take illegal drugs
- Fill a machine or vehicle

Load up on

- Consume a lot of something for a particular purpose

Lock up

- Close all doors, windows, etc.

Log in

- Enter a restricted area on a computer system

Log into

- Enter a restricted area of a computer system

Log off

- Exit a computer system

Log on

- Enter a computer system

Log out

- Exit a computer system

Look after

- Take care

Look back

- Think about the past

Look down on

- Have a low opinion of

Look for

- Try to find

Look forward to

- Wait for or anticipate something pleasant

Look in

- Make a quick visit

Look in on

- Visit briefly to see if everything's all right

Look into

- Research, investigate

Look on

- Watch something like a crime without helping

Look on as

- Consider, regard

Look out

- Be careful

Look over

- Inspect

Look round

- Inspect a house

Look to

- Expect, hope

Look up

- Consult a reference work (dictionary, phonebook, etc.) for a specific piece of information.
- Improve
- Find, trace an old friend

Look up to

- Respect

Look upon as

- Consider, regard

Luck out

- Be very lucky

Make do with

- Accept something less satisfactory because there's no alternative

Make for

- Head in a certain direction

Make into

- Change something into something else

Make it

- Arrive or get a result

Make it up to

- Try to compensate for doing something wrong

Make off with

- Steal

Make out

- Make a cheque payable to somebody
- Pretend
- Progress
- Kiss and pet

Make over

- Change appearance

Make up

- Stop being angry with someone
- Put on cosmetics
- Invent a story

Make up for

- Compensate

Make with

- Give (usually used as an imperative)

Mark down

- Give a student a lower grade for a particular reason
- Reduce the price of something

Mark down as

- Consider someone or something to be of a certain group, type, etc.

Mark off

- Tick, cross out or otherwise mark something to show that it has been dealt with

Mark out

- Draw lines to enclose an area

Mark out for

- Show promise for the future

Mark out from

- Stand out because of certain qualities

Mark up

- Increase the price of something

Marry in

- Marry someone of the same ethnicity, religion, etc

Marry out

- Marry someone of a different ethnicity, religion, etc

Mash up

- Crush something until it becomes a paste
- Mix sources of audio, video or other computer sources.
- Break or damage

Meet with

- Have something happen to you

Mess about

- Not be serious, not use something properly

Mess around

- Not be serious, play with something

Mill around

- Walk around without going anywhere

Mix up

- Confuse
- Make something lively

Monkey about (around)

- Not be serious

Mooch about (around)

- Spend time doing little or nothing

Mop up

- Resolve a problem
- Kill or capture the last few enemy soldiers after a victory.
- Eat a sauce with bread to finish it
- Remove a liquid that has been spilt

Mope about (around)

- Move around being miserable

Mount up

- Increase over time

Mouth off

- Speak angrily about something

Move on

- Change the subject or your job
- Make people move from a place

Mug up

- Study quickly, revise

Mug up on

- Study something quickly, revise

Mull over

- Think about an issue or problem

Muscle in

- Become involved in something when your involvement is not wanted

Muscle in on

- Become involved in something despite opposition to your involvement

Muscle into

- Become involved even though there is opposition to your involvement

Muscle out

- Use power, contacts, etc, to force someone out

Naff off

- Get lost, go away (used as imperative)

Nag at

- Repeatedly criticise someone verbally

Nail down

- Succeed in getting, achieve
- Understand fully
- Get full information from someone

Name after

- Give someone a name to remember another person

Nip off

- Go somewhere quickly

Nip out

- Go somewhere quickly

Nod off

- Fall asleep

Nose about (around)

- Look for something hidden or secret

Note down

- Write something short like a phone number for future reference.

Nut out

- Find an answer to a problem

Occur to

- Enter one's mind

Open up

- Start to talk freely about something
- Open a shop or business for the day
- Allow goods into a market

Opt for

- Choose

Opt out

- Choose not to be part of something

Owe to

- Be the reason for something

Own up

- Confess