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August 29, 2009 at 9:38 am (Glossary)

List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With ‘K’
Showing 7 Verbs, 38 Phrasal Verbs

Keel (1)
Keel over
– Turn upside down
– Surrender, give in
– Fall to the ground
Keep (14)
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
– Maintain a continuous action, persist
Keep up at
– Continue, not quit
Keep up with
– Move at the same rate
– Stay up to date
Key (1)
Key in
– Enter numbers or information into a computer or electronic system
Kick (9)
Kick about
– Discuss
Kick 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

Kiss (2)
Kiss off
– Used to tell someone to go away
– Consider something to be unimportant or inferior
Kiss up to
– Try to get into someone’s favor
Knock (9)
Knock about
– Beat someone
Knock around
– Discuss casually
Knock back
– Cost someone a lot of money
– Finish a drink quickly, drink a lot of alcohol
– Shock
Knock down
– Demolish
– Hit and injure someone
Knock it off!
– Stop doing something annoying
Knock off
– Finish work for the day
– Reduce the price of something
– Reduce the time required to do something
– Steal
– Produce or create something quickly
Knock out
– Hit and make somebody unconscious
– Sell, distribute
Knock together
– Join houses that had been separate
Knock up
– Become or get someone pregnant.
– Play a bit before a match to get ready
– Produce or create something quickly
Knuckle (2)
Knuckle down
– Make a great effort
Knuckle under
– Submit to authority