Angielski - Phrasal verbs

 

 

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

 

Pack away

- Put something where it belongs

Pack in

- Stop doing something
- End a relationship
- Fill a venue
- Break down, stop working

Pack it in

- Stop doing something (used as an imperative)

Pack off

- Send someone away

Pack out

- Fill a venue

Pack up

- Stop doing something
- Finish work
- Break down, stop working
- Collect things and put them where you keeep them

Palm off

- Get someone to accept something that isn't true
- Pretent something is better than it is iin order to sell it

Pan out

- The way a situation develops

Paper over

- Try to conceal a problem without really fixing it

Pass around

- Give out to everybody there

Pass as

- Be believed to be something

Pass away

- Die

Pass by

- Go past without stopping
- Visit briefly
- Miss an opportunity

Pass for

- Be accepted as something, usually when not

Pass off

- Convince something that something is real
- Happen in a certain way

Pass on

- Give a message to someone
- Decline an invitation or opportunity
- Die

Pass out

- Faint, lose consciousness

Pass over

- Ignore someone and give a job, reward, etc, to someone more junior

Pass through

- Visit a place without stopping or only stopping briefly

Pass to

- Give ownership or responsibility to someone

Pass up

- Decline a chance

Patch up

- Fix or make things better

Pay back

- Repay money borrowed
- Take revenge on

Pay for

- Purchase

Pay into

- Deposit money

Pay off

- Completely repay a debt
- Produce a profitable or successful result

Peck at

- Eat very small amounts

Peg away

- Keep working at something

Peg down

- Fasten something to the ground

Peg it

- Die

Peg out

- Put washing outside to dry
- Die

Pencil in

- Make a provisional appointment

Perk up

- Feel better or happier, make someone feel better or happier

Peter out

- Lose impetus and stop

Phase in

- Introduce gradually

Phase out

- Remove gradually

Pick at

- Eat unwillingly

Pick off

- Target individuals to change a group

Pick out

- Choose
- Identify from a picture

Pick up

- Improve
- Learn quickly

Pig off

- Used to tell someone to get lost or leave you alone

Pig out

- Eat a lot

Pile up

- Accumulate

Pin down

- Get a fixed idea, opinion, etc, from someone.

Pine away

- Suffer physically because of grief, stress, worry, etc

Pipe down

- Be quiet (often as an imperative)

Pipe up

- To speak, raise your voice

Pitch in

- Work together to help achieve an objective

Play along

- Pretend to agree or accept something in order to keep someone happy or to get more information

Play around

- Be silly

Play at

- Pretend to be something

Play away

- Be sexually unfaithful when away from home

Play back

- Listen to or watch something you've recorded

Play down

- Try to make something seem less important

Play off

- Play a game to decide who the winner is
- Make people compete against each other so that you benefit

Play on

- Continue playing a sport though there might be a reason to stop
- Continue playing music
- Exploit a weakness
- Pun

Play out

- Progress, often till it finishes
- Pretend that something is real and reduce its effect
- Play something to the end

Play up

- Behave badly

Play up to

- Flatter someone

Play upon

- Exploit a weakness

Play with

- Touch and move something to occupy your hands
- Not eat much of a meal
- Consider something, but not seriously

Plead out

- Plead guilty to get a reduced sentence or fine

Plug in

- Connect machines to the electricity supply

Plump for

- Choose

Point out

- Make someone aware of something

Polish off

- Finish, consume

Polish up

- Improve something quickly

Pop in

- Visit for a short time

Pop off

- Talk loudly, complain
- Go out for a short time

Pop out

- Go out for a short time

Pop up

- Appear, like windows and boxes opening on a computer screen.
- Appear unexpectedly

Potter about (around)

- Spend time doing little things for pleasure

Pour down

- Rain hard

Pour forth

- Emerge from a place in large numbers

Prattle on

- Talk too much

Press ahead

- Continue with something

Press on

- Continue with something

Price up

- Charge more for something

Print out

- Make a hard copy of a computer document

Prop up

- Support something, both physically and financially, politically, etc.

Psych out

- Work out or anticipate someone's intentions
- Make someone less confident

Psych up

- Prepare someone mentally

Pull ahead

- Overtake, move in front

Pull apart

- Destroy an argument, theory, etc
- Stop people or animals fighting
- Make someone unhappy or upset

Pull away

- When a vehicle moves from a place

Pull down

- Demolish

Pull in

- When a train arrives at a station
- Attract
- Stop a car by the side off the road

Pull off

- Manage to do something difficult or tricky

Pull on

- Put clothes on

Pull over

- Stop by the side of the road

Pull up

- Slow and stop a car
- Inform someone that they are wrong

Push in

- Get in a queue without waiting

Put away

- Put something back in the correct place
- Put someone in prison

Put back

- Rearrange something for a later time

Put by

- Save for the future

Put down

- Kill an animal because it's old, ill, etc.

Put in

- Install

Put in for

- Make a request

Put off

- Postpone
- Stop liking something or somebody

Put on

- Get fat

Put out

- Broadcast
- Disturb or trouble someone
- Extinguish a cigarette, fire, etc.

Put through

- Connect someone by phone

Put towards

- Make a financial contribution

Put up

- Allow someone to stay at your house for a night or a few days.
- Increase prices, taxes, duties, etc.

Put up with

- Tolerate

Quieten down

- Fall silent

Rack up

- Acquire a lot of something

Rain down on

- Fall in large numbers

Rake it in

- Make a lot of money

Rake up

- Bring something back to people's attention

Ramp up

- Increase price, speed or power of something

Rat on

- Inform authorities about someone's wrongdoings
- Fail to keep a promise

Rat through

- Look for something hurriedly

Rat out

Ratchet up

- Increase

Rattle off

- Quote figures rapidly

Read off

- Read a list aloud for someone to write down

Read out

- Read aloud rather than silently

Read up on

- Research

Reckon on

- The minimum expected

Reel in

- Catch a fish on a line and pull the line to land
- Attract people, especially customers, to get them to do what you want them to

Reel off

- Quote statistics or facts rapidly
- Score a lot of points or win a lot of games one after the other

Reel out

- Unwind

Rein in

- Control someone or comething to stop them causing more trouble

Ring back

- Return a phonecall

Ring off

- Finish a phone conversation

Ring up

- Telephone

Rip off

- Charge excessively or obtain money unfairly

Roll back

- Retreat
- Reduce or remove

Roll in

- Arrive somewhere, especially if late
- Arrive in large numbers, for military vehicles

Roll on

- When something continues to happen

Roll on!

- Said when you can't wait for something nice in the future

Roll out

- Launch or introduce a new product, initiative, etc.

Roll up

- To appear in large numbers for an event

Roll up!

- An imperative used to attract people to a public event

Romp in

- Win easily

Romp through

- Do something easily or quickly

Room in

- To keep a mother and baby together after the birth

Root around

- Look in place to try to find something

Root for

- Support

Root out

- Look for and find

Root up

- Dig a plant out of the ground

Rope in

- Get somebody to help

Rough up

- Assault

Round off

- Finish something in a satisfactory manner

Row back

- Retreat from a position

Rub it in

- Emphasise how bad a situation is to make someone feel worse

Rule out

- Exclude a possibility

Run across

- Meet or find accidentally

Run away

- Escape from people chasing you

Run down

- Hit a pedestrian with a vehicle
- Lose energy or power

Run for

- Campaign for a position

Run into

- Cost
- Meet by accident

Run off

- Make photocopies

Run on

- Be powered by

Run out of

- Have none left

Run over

- Explain quickly
- Hit with a vehicle

Run through

- Practise a dramatic work like a play quickly
- Stab or wound deeply with a knife, sword, etc.

Rush into

- Do something too quickly

Sag off

- Not go to school or work, or leave early when you shouldn't

Sail into

- Criticise angrily

Sail through

- Pass easily, succeed

Sally forth

- Leave somewhere safe or comfortable

Sally out

- Leave somewhere safe or comfortable

Salt away

- Save money

Save on

- Reduce or avoid consumption to cut costs

Save up

- For money for a particular purpose
- Collect or store something for future use

Scare away

- Frighten someone some much that they go away

Scare off

- Make someone so frightened that he or she away

Scrape along

- Manage with little money

Scrape by

- Just manage to pass something

Scrape in

- Just get enough to succeed, pass or be accepted

Scrape into

- Be accepted somewhere, but only just

Scrape through

- Pass a test but only just

Scrape together

- Manage to collect enough of something you need, usually money

Scrape up

- Manage to collect enough of something you need, usually money

Screw around

- Waste time

Screw up

- Do badly or fail

See into

- Accompany someone into an office

See off

- Chase somebody or something away
- Go to the airport, station, etc., to say goodbye to someone

See out

- Accompany a guest to your front door when they are leaving your house

See through

- Continue with something to the end
- Realise someone is lying or being deceitful

See to

- Deal with something

Sell off

- Sell a business or part of it
- Sell something cheaply because you need the money or don't need it

Sell on

- Convince someone
- Buy something then sell it to someone else

Sell out

- Have no more of something left because it has been bought
- Lose all artistic integrity in return for commercial success

Sell up

- Sell a house or business to move somewhere or do something different

Send back

- Return something

Send for

- Ask someone to come and help

Send in

- Order people into a place to handle a problem
- Write to get information

Send off

- Expel a sports player from a match
- Post a letter

Send off for

- Order something by post

Send out

- Send something to a lot of people

Send out for

- Order takeaway food by phone

Set about

- Start doing something

Set aside

- Overturn a court verdict or decision

Set back

- Cost

Set forth

- State or outline an opinion
- Start a journey

Set in

- Change season noticeably

Set off

- Explode a bomb
- Ring an alarm
- Start a journey
- Counterbalance a debt

Set out

- Display, show
- Start a journey

Set up

- Prepare equipment, software, etc., for use
- Start a company

Settle down

- Start living a fixed and routine life

Settle for

- Accept whatever is available

Settle in

- Get used to

Settle on

- Agree

Settle up

- Pay a debt

Sex up

- Change information to make it more attractive to the reader or listener

Shack up

- Live with someone when you are in a relationship.
- Live somewhere temporarily

Shake down

- Search
- Extort or cheat money from someone

Shake off

- Get rid of an illness

Shell out

- Spend money on something, especially when you think it's too expensive

Shoot back

- Return quickly

Shoot off

- Leave promptly and quickly

Shoot out

- Go out for a short time

Shoot up

- Increase quickly

Shop around

- Look around for the best price, quality, etc.

Show around

- Take someone to a place to show them certain parts

Show in

- Take someone into an office or other room

Show off

- Behave in a way so as to attract attention
- Display something you are proud of
- Make the qualities of another thing more apparent

Show out

- Take someone to out of a room or building

Show over

- Take someone around a site

Show round

- Take someone to a place to show them certain parts

Show through

- When a feeling can be seen despite attempts to conceal it

Show up

- Attend something or arrive somewhere
- Become clear or apparent
- Make someone feel embarrassed or ashamed

Shut away

- Imprison or remove someone's freedom

Shut down

- Close a business, shop, etc.
- Turn a computer off

Shut in

- Prevent someone from leaving

Shut off

- Close, prevent access

Shut out

- Exclude

Shut out of

- Exclude someone from an activity, etc

Shut up

- Stop talking or making noise
- Close for a period of time

Shut yourself away

- Withdraw from company

Shy away from

- Avoid doing something because you lack confidence

Side with

- Support someone

Sift through

- Examine a lot of things carefully

Sign away

- Give away legal or property rights

Sign for

- Write a signature on behalf on someone

Sign in

- Register in a hotel
- Open a computer program that requires a name and password
- Write your name when entering a place

Sign into

- Open a particular computer program that requires a name and password

Sign off

- End a message
- Close a claim for unemployment benefit
- Stop doing something to leave
- Give someone a letter to be away from work

Sign on

- Open a claim for unemployment benefit
- Agree to participate
- Start broadcasting
- Employ

Sign on with

- Sign a document joining or agreeing to something

Sign out

- Close a computer program that requires a name and password
- Sign something to show you have borrowed something

Sign out of

- Close a particular computer program that requires a name and password

Sign up

- Give your name to do something
- Subscribe

Sign with

- Make a contract with

Sink in

- Slowly come to be understood

Sit about

- Sit and do nothing, especially when you should be working

Sit around

- Sit idly, doing nothing

Sit back

- Wait for something to happen without making any effort
- Relax in a chair

Sit by

- Not try to stop something

Sit down

- Help someone to sit

Sit for

- Pose for an artist or photographer
- Look after children while their parents are out

Sit in

- Occupy a building to protest about something

Sit in for

- Take on someone's responsibilities while they are absent

Sit in on

- Attend as an observer

Sit on

- Be on a committee
- To handle somebody firmly who behaves impertinently, conceitedly
- Hold information back or keep it secret

Sit out

- Not take part

Sit over

- Eat or drink slowly

Sit through

- Stay till the end of something dull

Sit with

- Reconcile different positions

Size up

- Assess a situation or person carefully.
- Make something bigger or produce bigger products

Skive off

- Avoid doing work or other duty

Slag off

- Criticise heavily

Sleep off

- Sleep in order to recover from excess alcohol, drugs, etc.

Sleep on

- Think about something

Sleep over

- Spend the night at someone else's house

Sleep through

- Not wake up

Slip out

- Leave discreetly

Slip up

- Make an error

Slope off

- Leave somewhere without letting others know

Slow down

- Reduced speed

Slow up

- Slow the progress of something

Smack of

- Appear to have a negative quality

Smash down

- Demolish or break something down

Smash in

- Break something by hitting it repeatedly

Smash up

- Destroy, break into many pieces

Snap off

- Break a piece off something

Snap up

- Get, acquire or buy something quickly

Sniff around

- Look around to see how good something is or to try to find something better

Sniff at

- Disapprove or be scornful

Sniff out

- Find something be smell (usually for dogs)
- Find out information, especially when people don't want anyone to know

Sober up

- Stop showing the effects of alcohol or drugs

Soldier on

- Continue even when things get difficult

Sort out

- Resolve a problem

Sound off

- To express your opinions forcefully

Sound out

- Check what someone thinks about an issue, idea, etc.

Spark off

- Cause something, usually unpleasant, to happen

Spark up

- Light a cigarette or joint

Speak out

- Talk openly and freely

Speak up

- Talk more loudly

Spell out

- Explain something in great detail

Spit it out

- An informal way of telling someone to say something they are unwilling to say

Spit out

- Say something angrily

Split up

- Divide into groups
- Finish a relationship

Spur on

- Encourage someone to continue

Squeeze up

- Get more people into a space than normal or comfortable

Stamp out

- Get rid of something

Stand about (around)

- Spend time in a place waiting or doing nothing or very little

Stand aside

- Leave a position so that someone else can take it

Stand back

- Keep a distance from something
- Try to understand something by taking a different perspective

Stand by

- Support someone
- Be ready and waiting for something to happen

Stand down

- Leave a job or position so that someone else can take it
- Finish being asked questions in a court

Stand for

- Accept or tolerate behaviour
- The words represented by certain initials

Stand in for

- Substitute someone temporarily

Stand out

- Be extraordinary and different

Stand up

- Move from a sitting or lying down to a vertical position

Stand up for

- Defend, support

Stand up to

- Keep your principles when challenged by an authority
- Resist damage

Start off

- Make something start
- Begin life, a career or existence
- Begin a journey
- Make someone laugh

Start off on

- Help someone to start a piece or work or activity

Start on

- Begin to use or consume
- Criticise angrily

Start on at

- Criticise or nag

Start out

- Begin a journey

Start out as

- Begin life, existence or a career

Start out to

- Intend, plan

Start over

- Begin something again

Start up

- Open a business
- Begin, especially sounds
- When an engine starts working
- Make an engine work
- Sit or stand upright because someone has surprised you

Stay in

- Not go out

Stay on

- Remain longer than anticipated

Stay out

- Not go home

Stay over

- Stay overnight

Stay up

- Not go to bed

Steer clear of

- Avoid

Step aside

- Leave a job or position so that someone else can take over

Step back

- Look at something from a different perspective

Step down

- Leave a job or position so that someone can take over

Step forward

- Offer help

Step in

- Get involved by interrupting something

Step on it

- An imperative used to tell someone to go faster, especially when driving

Step out

- Leave a place for a very short time

Step up

- Increase

Stick it to

- Criticise someone

Stick to

- Not change

Stick up for

- Support or defend

Stir up

- Make trouble for someone else

Stitch up

- Sew something so that it is closed
- Finalise a deal
- Cheat someone or make them look guilty when they aren't

Stop around (round)

- Visit someone for a short time.

Stop back

- Return somewhere

Stop behind

- Stay somewhere when other people leave

Stop by

- Visit somewhere briefly or quickly

Stop in

- Stay at home
- Visit briefly

Stop off

- Break a journey

Stop out

- Be out late, especially when you are expected home

Stop over

- Stay somewhere when on a journey

Stop up

- Stay up late
- Fill or block something

Storm off

- Leave a place angrily

Storm out

- Leave a place angrily

String along

- Deceive someone for a long time
- Accompany someone because you haven't got anything better to do

String out

- Make something last as long as possible

String together

- Put words together into a coherent text

String up

- Hang somebody

Stub out

- Extinguish a cigarette

Stumble across

- Find something accidentally

Stumble upon

- Find something accidentally

Stump up

- Pay for something

Suck in

- Become involved in something unpleasant

Suck into

- Become involved in something unpleasant

Suck up to

- Ingratiate yourself with someone

Sum up

- Summarise

Summon up

- Get the energy or courage to do something

Suss out

- Come to understand

Swear by

- Have great confidence in

Sweep through

- Pass easily, succeed
- Move quickly through

Syphon off

- Take business, support or votes from someone
- Divert money illegally