Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal Verbs

• Come about    -  happen(How did the accident come out)
• Come across   -   meet with(He came across a schoolmate of his at the railway station)
• Come by         -        obtain(I wonder how he happened to comeby so much wealth)
• Come of          -  happen as a result of (Many road accidents come of sheer carelessness)
• Come out        -   become known(Many unpleasant facts came out at the trial)
• Come out of   -    be the result of(Nothing has come out of his frantic efforts)
• Do away with   -  abolish(The government is contemplating on doing away with commercial taxes)
• Done for           -    ruined(He is a spendthrift and he will be done for soon)
• Get along      -     be friendly(I don’t really get along with my father- in-law)
• Get at           -     reach(Donot put knives where children can easily get at them)
• Get off         -    leave a train,a bus,aircraft etc.(Don’t get off a train while it is moving)
• Get on          -   continue,manage(How are you getting om in your new flat)
• Get over       -    get better after an illness(She got over her illness by ome miracle)
• Get through -   pass(He had prepared well,but he did not get through the examination)
• Go about      -   begin to do something(I do not know how I can go about)
• Go back on -     breaks(A man of integrity never goes back on)
• Go into       -     enter(My brother wants to go into the share market)
• Go off         -     fired(The gun went off accidently while he was cleaning it)
• Go on         -      continue(The politician went on talking though there was hooting from audience)
• Go over     -     study it(He wants to go over the lesson again before the examination)
• Go with      -     match in colour(Your blouse does not go with your sari
• Hold on      -    wait(How long can I hold on)
• Look after  -    take care of(You have to look after your aged parents)
• Look down upon  -   despise(He has a tendency to look down upon the poor)
• Look for     -      trying to find(He looking for an execuse to throw away his job)
• Look forward to   -     expecting with pleasure(I am eagerly looking forward to your next visit)
• Look into   -      examine(The chief minister has promised to look into the grievances of the government servants)
• Look up    -      pay a visit(When I go to Chennai next time ,I will look up my former schoolmate)
• Make off   -      escaped(The burglars made off before the police arrived)
• Make out  -      recognise (He has changed so much that I couldnot make him out)