Phrasal verbs 2

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Give (someone) away
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betray
Give off
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send off a smell or gas
Give out
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be exhausted
Give over
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abondon, devote/ stop - colloquial
Give up
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surrender/believed to be dead or lost
Go back on
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Go back on in English
break a promise
Go in for
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make a habit of/enter competition
Go off
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become bad - food
Go on
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happen - usually negative
Go round
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be enough
Go through with
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complete a promise or plan - usually unwillingly
Grow on
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become more liked - colloquial
Hang onto
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keep - colloquial
Have it in for
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be deliberately unkind to someone - also as have got
Have it out with
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express feelings so as to settle a problem
Have someone on
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deceive - colloquial
Hit it off
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get on well with - colloquial
Hit upon/ on
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discover by chance - often an idea
Hold out
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offer - especially with hope
Hold up
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delay/use as an example - i.e. a model of good behaviour
Hold with
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agree with - an idea
Keep up
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continue
Lay down
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state a rule - especially lay down the law
Let (someone) down
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dissappoint, break a promise
Let in on
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allow to be part of a secret
Let (someone) off
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excuse from punishment
Let on
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inform about a secret - colloquial
Live (it) down
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suffer a loss of reputation
Live up to
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reach an expected standard
Look into
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investigate
Look on
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consider
Look someone up
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visit when in the area
Make for
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result in
Make off with
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run away with
Make out
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pretend
Make (someone) out
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understand someone's behaviour
Make (something) up
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invent
Make up for
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compensate for
Miss (something) out
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fail to include/loose a chance - colloquial
Own up
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confess - colloquial
Pack in
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stop an activity - colloquial
Pay (someone) back
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take revenge - colloquial
Pick up
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improve - colloquial
Pin (someone) down
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force to give a clear statement
Play up
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behave or work badly
Point (something) out
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draw attention to a fact
Pull (something) off
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manage to succeed
Push on
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continue with some effort - colloquial
Put across
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communicate ideas
Put down to
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explain the cause of
Put in for
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apply for a job
Put oneself out
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take trouble - to help someone
Put (someone) off
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discourage, upset
Put (someone) up
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offer accommodation
Put up with
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tolerate, bear

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