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List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With ‘Q’
Showing 1 Verbs, 1 Phrasal Verbs
Quieten (1)
Quieten down
– Fall silent

List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With ‘P’
Showing 46 Verbs, 147 Phrasal Verbs

Pack (6)
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 keep them
Pad (2)
Pad down
– Sleep somewhere for the night
Pad out
– Make a text longer by including extra content, often content that isn’t particularly relevant
Pair (3)
Pair off
– Begin a romantic relationship
– Introduce people, hoping they will start a relationship
– Form pairs
Pair off with
– Form a pair with someone
Pair up
– Form a pair
Palm (1)
Palm off
– Get someone to accept something that isn’t true
– Pretend something is better than it is in order to sell it
Pan (1)
Pan out
– The way a situation develops
Paper (1)
Paper over
– Try to conceal a problem without really fixing it
Pare (2)
Pare back
– If you pare something back, you reduce the size or numbers.
Pare down
– Reduce, decrease
Pass (12)
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 (1)
Patch up
– Fix or make things better
Pay (4)
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 (1)
Peck at
– Eat very small amounts
Peg (4)
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 (1)
Pencil in
– Make a provisional appointment
Perk (1)
Perk up
– Feel better or happier, make someone feel better or happier
Peter (1)
Peter out
– Lose impetus and stop
Phase (2)
Phase in
– Introduce gradually
Phase out
– Remove gradually
Pick (9)
Pick at
– Eat unwillingly
– Criticize
Pick off
– Target individuals to change a group
Pick on
– Bother, annoy, criticize or make fun of someone
Pick out
– Choose
– Identify from a picture
Pick through
– Search something that is disordered for something
Pick up
– Improve
– Learn quickly
– Collect
– Receive (a broadcast)
– Collect (a person). This differs from the ‘collect a thing’ meaning – as that means ‘collect and bring back’ whereas this means either (i) ‘collect and drop off on your way’ or (ii) ‘collect and bring to the same destination’.
Pick up after
– Tidy a mess someone else has made
Pick up on
– Correct someone when they say something wrong
– Notice something that most people don’t
– React to something
– Comment on something said earlier in a conversation
Pick yourself up
– Recover from a fall or problem
Pig (2)
Pig off
– Used to tell someone to get lost or leave you alone
Pig out
– Eat a lot
Pile (1)
Pile up
– Accumulate
Pin (3)
Pin down
– Get a fixed idea, opinion, etc, from someone.
– Discover exact details about something
Pin on
– Attach the blame to someone
Pin up
– Fix something to a wall, or other vertical surface, with a pin
Pine (1)
Pine away
– Suffer physically because of grief, stress, worry, etc
Pipe (2)
Pipe down
– Be quiet (often as an imperative)
Pipe up
– To speak, raise your voice
Pit (2)
Pit against
– Compete or force to compete
Pit out
– Go into the pits (car racing)
Pitch (3)
Pitch for
– Try to persuade someone to give your work, business, a job, etc
Pitch in
– Work together to help achieve an objective
Pitch into
– Criticize severely or attack someone
Play (13)
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 (1)
Plead out
– Plead guilty to get a reduced sentence or fine

Plough (5)
Plough back
– Re-invest money you have made into a business
Plough into
– Collide into at speed
Plough on
– Continue doing something you don’t want to
Plough through
– Eat a big meal
– Read something that is difficult or takes a lot of time
– Move through somewhere where there is little space or there are obstacles
Plough up
– Break the surface of soil
Plow (5)
Plow back
– Re-invest money you have made into a business
Plow into
– Collide into at speed
Plow on
– Continue doing something you don’t want to
Plow through
– Eat a big meal
– Read something that is difficult or takes a lot of time
– Move through somewhere where there is little space or there are obstacles
Plow up
– Break the surface of soil
Plug (1)
Plug in
– Connect machines to the electricity supply
Plump (1)
Plump for
– Choose
Point (1)
Point out
– Make someone aware of something
Polish (2)
Polish off
– Finish, consume
Polish up
– Improve something quickly
Pony (1)
Pony up
– Pay for something
Poop (2)
Poop out
– Get too tired to do something
Poop out on
– Fail to keep an appointment
Pop (4)
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 (2)
Potter about
– Spend time doing little things for pleasure
Potter around
– Spend some time doing little things for pleasure

Pour (2)
Pour down
– Rain hard
Pour forth
– Emerge from a place in large numbers
Prattle (1)
Prattle on
– Talk too much
Press (2)
Press ahead
– Continue with something
Press on
– Continue with something
Price (1)
Price up
– Charge more for something
Print (1)
Print out
– Make a hard copy of a computer document
Prop (1)
Prop up
– Support something, both physically and financially, politically, etc.
Psych (2)
Psych out
– Work out or anticipate someone’s intentions
– Make someone less confident
Psych up
– Prepare someone mentally

Pull (16)
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 back
– Score a goal or point when losing
– Move away from a place, especially when talking about soldiers
– Move away from someone
– Decide not to do something or not to be involved with it any longer
Pull down
– Demolish
– Make someone depressed
– Earn
Pull for
– Support
Pull in
– When a train arrives at a station
– Attract
– Stop a car by the side of the road
– Arrest or take someone to a police station for questioning
Pull off
– Manage to do something difficult or tricky
– Start moving (vehicles)
Pull on
– Put clothes on
Pull out
– Start moving (train)
– Move into traffic
– Withdraw
– Remove soldiers from an area
Pull over
– Stop by the side of the road
– Make a vehicle stop
Pull through
– Recover from and illness or problem
Pull to
– Close a door or window that has been left open
Pull together
– Work together as a team

Pull up
– Slow and stop a car
– Inform someone that they are wrong
Pull yourself together
– Become calm or regain control of your emotions
Push (1)
Push in
– Get in a queue without waiting
Put (16)
Put across
– Communicate, convey a message
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.
– Stop holding (but withdraw support gently)
Put down for
– Commit to make a payment
Put down to
– Give as an explanation
Put in
– Install
Put in for
– Make a request
Put off
– Postpone
– Stop liking something or somebody
Put on
– Get fat
– Deceive, lie
– Start wearing
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

List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With ‘N’
Showing 9 Verbs, 11 Phrasal Verbs

Naff (1)
Naff off
– Get lost, go away (used as imperative)
Nag (1)
Nag at
– Repeatedly criticize someone verbally
Nail (1)
Nail down
– Succeed in getting, achieve
– Understand fully
– Succeed or achieve something
Name (1)
Name after
– Give someone a name to remember another person
Nip (2)
Nip off
– Go somewhere quickly
Nip out
– Go somewhere quickly
Nod (1)
Nod off
– Fall asleep
Nose (2)
Nose about
– Look for something hidden or secret
Nose around
– Look around for evidence
Note (1)
Note down
– Write something short like a phone number for future reference.
Nut (1)
Nut out
– Find an answer to a problem

List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With ‘M’
Showing 22 Verbs, 56 Phrasal Verbs

Magic (1)
Magic away
– Make something disappear quickly
Make (12)
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 up to
– Increase a sum received to a higher figure
Make with
– Give (usually used as an imperative)
Mark (7)
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 (2)
Marry in
– Marry someone of the same ethnicity, religion, etc
Marry out
– Marry someone of a different ethnicity, religion, etc
Mash (1)
Mash up
– Crush something until it becomes a paste
– Mix sources of audio, video or other computer sources.
– Break or damage
Max (1)
Max out
– Take something to the limit, reach a limit

Measure (4)
Measure against
– Evaluate or judge by comparison
Measure off
– Measure something and mark the point where it ends or will be cut
Measure out
– Measure or weigh the amount needed
Measure up
– Find the size of something
– Be good enough, meet the required standard
Meet (1)
Meet with
– Have something happen to you
Mess (7)
Mess about
– Not be serious, not use something properly
– Treat someone badly
– Have a sexual relationship outside marriage or a permanent relationship
Mess about with
– Have a sexual relationship outside marriage or a permanent relationship
– Try to improve something, usually making things worse
Mess around
– Not be serious, play with something
– Treat someone badly
– Have a sexual relationship outside marriage or a permanent relationship
Mess around with
– Have a sexual relationship outside marriage or a permanent relationship
– Try to improve something, usually making things worse
Mess over
– Treat someone badly
Mess up
– Spoil or ruin
– Make something untidy or dirty
– Cause mental, physical or emotional problems
Mess with
– Become involved in something damaging or dangerous
– Annoy, bother
– Associate (negative)
– Try to repair of improve, usually unsuccessfully

Mill (1)
Mill around
– Walk around without going anywhere
Miss (2)
Miss out
– Not do something enjoyable or rewarding
– Not include
Miss out on
– Lose a chance, fail to achieve
Mix (1)
Mix up
– Confuse
– Make something lively
Monkey (1)
Monkey around
– Not be serious
Mooch (2)
Mooch about
– Spend time doing little or nothing
Mooch around
– Spend time doing little or nothing
Mop (1)
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 (2)
Mope about
– Move around being miserable
Mope around
– Move around being miserable
Mount (1)
Mount up
– Increase over time
Mouth (1)
Mouth off
– Speak angrily about something
Move (1)
Move on
– Change the subject or your job
– Make people move from a place
Mug (2)
Mug up
– Study quickly, revise
Mug up on
– Study something quickly, revise
Mull (1)
Mull over
– Think about an issue or problem
Muscle (4)
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

List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With ‘L’
Showing 27 Verbs, 89 Phrasal Verbs

Lap (1)
Lap up
– Appreciate something
Large (1)
Large it up
– Have a good time when intoxicated
Lark (3)
Lark about
– Behave in a silly way
Lark around
– Behave in a silly way
Lark it up
– Enjoy yourself noisily and exuberantly
Lash (6)
Lash down
– Fall heavily (rain)
– Secure something with ropes or cords
Lash into
– Criticize someone strongly
Lash out
– Suddenly become violent
– React angrily
– Spend a lot of money on luxuries
Lash out against
– Criticize something strongly
Lash out at
– Hit someone suddenly, usually without warning, or try to hit them
– Criticize someone or shout at them
Lash out on
– Spend a lot of money buying something

Latch (3)
Latch on
– Understand, often after a long time
Latch on to
– Understand something, often after a long time
Latch onto
– Connect to something
– Decide or realize that something is good or profitable
Lay (5)
Lay down
– Establish rules or procedures
– Kill, murder
Lay into
– Criticize angrily
Lay off
– Make an employee redundant
Lay on
– Organize, supply
Lay out
– Spend money
Lead (1)
Lead to
– Result in
Leak (1)
Leak out
– Become public knowledge
Lean (1)
Lean on
– Put pressure on someone to get them to do what you want
Leave (2)
Leave on
– Not turn off
Leave out
– Not include
Let (5)
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 (2)
Lie down
– Rest
Lie with
– Have the right to make a decision
Lift (1)
Lift off
– Leave the ground- rocket or spaceship
Light (1)
Light up
– Light or start smoking a cigarette
– Illuminate
Lighten (1)
Lighten up
– Be less serious
Limber (2)
Limber up
– Do some exercises to warm up before playing a sport or other physical activity
Limber up for
– Prepare for something that will require a great effort
Line (1)
Line up
– Arrange in a line
– Arrange something in a line
– Arrange events for someone
Link (2)
Link up
– Connect, join
Link up with
– Connect with someone or contact them
Listen (1)
Listen out for
– Listen for a particular noise or sound
Live (12)
Live by
– Follow a belief system to guide your behavior
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 (3)
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 (7)
Lock away
– Lock in a safe place
– Put someone in prison or a mental hospital for a very long time
Lock down
– Make very secure
Lock in
– Lock a place to stop someone leaving
– Commit someone in such a way that they cannot leave
Lock onto
– Find a target and head for it
Lock out
– Close a workplace to stop workers entering
– Lock a place to stop someone getting in
Lock up
– Close all doors, windows, etc.
– Lock something in a safe place
– Put in prison or a mental hospital
Lock yourself away
– Go somewhere away from people to study or work
Log (5)
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 (17)
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
Lord (1)
Lord it over
– Behave in a superior manner
Lose (3)
Lose out
– Be at a disadvantage
Lose out on
– Not gain or have something advantageous
Lose out to
– Be less successful

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

List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With ‘J’
Showing 8 Verbs, 12 Phrasal Verbs

Jack (3)
Jack around
– Make trouble for someone, fail to keep promises
Jack in
– Quit, give up
Jack up
– Raise a car to be able to do mechanical work
– Increase sharply
Jam (1)
Jam on
– Apply or operate something forcefully
Jaw (1)
Jaw away
– Talk just for the point of talking rather than having anything to say
Jazz (1)
Jazz up
– Make something more interesting or attractive
Joke (1)
Joke around
– Be funny, or try to
Jot (1)
Jot down
– Make a quick note
Juice (1)
Juice up
– Make something more exciting or perform better
Jump (3)
Jump at
– Accept eagerly
Jump in
– Enter a conversation
Jump on
– Criticize, attack

List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With ‘I’
Showing 2 Verbs, 2 Phrasal Verbs

Iron (1)
Iron out
– Remove small problems or irregularities
Issue (1)
Issue forth
– Come out of a place

List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With ‘H’
Showing 23 Verbs, 91 Phrasal Verbs

Hack (3)
Hack around
– Waste time
Hack into
– Break into a computer system
Hack off
– Annoy
Ham (1)
Ham up
– Perform or act in an excessive way to attract attention or amuse people
Hammer (3)
Hammer away at
– Work relentlessly
Hammer into
– Repeat something over a period of time to make someone remember it
Hammer out
– Negotiate and reach an agreement
Hand (6)
Hand back
– Return

Hand down
– Pass on to the next generation
– Give a formal decision
Hand in
– Submit work for appraisal
Hand on
– Give to someone else
– Transmit knowledge to the next generation
Hand out
– Distribute
Hand over
– Give
Hang (15)
Hang about
– Spend time somewhere not doing much
Hang about!
– Stop what you’re doing and pay attention to me
Hang around
– Stay in a place
Hang back
– Not move forwards to avoid doing something
Hang back from
– Delay or avoid doing something
Hang in there
– Persevere, not give up
Hang on
– Wait
– Hold tightly
Hang onto
– Keep
Hang out
– Spend time socially
Hang out for
– Wait or refuse to do something until you get what you want
Hang over
– Worry or trouble
Hang together
– Work together when things are difficult
Hang up
– End a phone call
Hang up on
– End a phone call with someone
Hang with
– Spend time with
Hanker (2)
Hanker after
– Want something a lot, especially if you shouldn’t want it or can’t have it
Hanker for
– Want something a lot, especially if you shouldn’t want it or can’t have it
Harp (1)
Harp on
– Talk repeatedly about something
Have (13)
Have against
– Dislike, disagree or hold a grudge (Usually negative)
Have around
– Entertain someone in your home
Have down as
– Think of someone or something in a particular way
Have in
– Have a supply of something in a particular place
– Get someone to do some work
– Entertain people in your home
Have it away
– Have sex with someone, especially casual sex
Have it in for
– Hold a grudge
Have it off
– Have sex
Have it out with
– Discuss or argue an issue to improve a situation
Have off
– Take time off work
Have on
– Be wearing
– Have an electronic device switched on
– Have an arrangement
– Tease, deceive
– Be in possession at a particular time
– Know something about someone that could harm them
Have over
– Receive a guest
Have round
– Entertain someone in your home

Have up
– Make someone appear in court
Head (4)
Head for
– Move or travel towards
Head off
– Stop someone or force them to change direction
– Prevent something bad happening
– Leave somewhere to go to another place
Head out
– Go out
Head up
– Be in charge
Heat (1)
Heat up
– Make food hot
Help (1)
Help out
– Give assistance
Hinge (2)
Hinge on
– Depend very much or completely
– Be an essential point for the development of a story
Hinge upon
– Depend very much or completely
Hit (10)
Hit back
– Attack or criticize
Hit for
– Get someone to pay or donate money
Hit it off
– Have a good relationship from the first time you meet a person
Hit it off with
– Like someone from the first time you meet them

Hit on
– Have an idea
– Talk to someone to try to attract them sexually
– Ask for money
Hit out at
– Respond angrily to criticism
Hit up
– Inject drugs
– Ask someone for some money
Hit up on
– Inject drugs
Hit upon
– Have an idea
– Try to attract someone sexually
Hit with
– Surprise someone with some information or news
Hold (17)
Hold against
– Have a grudge against someone, or little respect
Hold back
– Not show emotion
– Prevent something moving forwards or progressing
– Not disclose information or make it public
Hold back from
– Not allow yourself to do something
Hold down
– Keep a job
– Stop someone or something from moving
Hold forth
– State your opinions about something, especially when talking for a long time and boringly
Hold off
– When bad weather doesn’t appear
– Stop someone from attacking or beating you
Hold on
– Wait
– To hold tightly
Hold on to
– Hold tightly
Hold onto
– Keep as long as possible
– Hold tightly
– Hold tightly

Hold out
– Resist
– Hold in front of you
Hold out against
– Try to reject
Hold out for
– Wait for something better or refuse something now for something better in the future
Hold out on
– Not pay someone or give them information
Hold over
– Delay
– To continue something for longer than planned
Hold together
– Not break up
Hold up
– Delay when travelling
– Rob with violence or threats thereof
Hold with
– Accept (usually negative)
Home (1)
Home in on
– Target
Hone (1)
Hone in on
– Target, focus
Hook (2)
Hook up
– Meet someone
Hook up to
– Connect to a machine
Holon (1)
Holon around
– Act in a dangerous or reckless way, especially when driving fast
Horse (1)
Horse around
– Not be serious
Hound (1)
Hound out
– Force someone out of a place, job, position, etc.
Hunker (1)
Hunker down
– Settle in a place as comfortably as possible to stay there
Hunt (3)
Hunt down
– Search for someone to punish or kill them
Hunt out
– Search until you find something
Hunt up
– Search for and manage to find something
Hush (1)
Hush up
– Try to keep something bad from becoming widely known

List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With ‘G’
Showing 16 Verbs, 177 Phrasal Verbs

Gad (2)
Gad about
– Visit a lot of different places for pleasure
Gad around
– Visit different places for pleasure
Gag (1)
Gag for
– Want something a lot
Gang (2)
Gang up
– Form a group against something or someone
Gang up on
– Harass, bull year
Gear up
– Get ready for a busy period
Geek (1)
Geek out
– Talk at length about computing
Get (66)
Get about
– Visit many places
– Become known
– Walk or visit places
– Have personal or sexual relationships with many people
Get above
– Behave as if you are better or more important than others

Get across
– Communicate successfully
– Go from one side to the other
– Move something from one side to the other
Get across to
– Be convincing or make a good impression
Get after
– Nag or exhort someone
– Chase
Get ahead
– Progress
Get ahead of
– Move in front of
Get along
– Have a good relationship
– Leave
– Progress
Get along in
– Progress
Get along with
– Have a good relationship with someone
– Deal with, handle
Get around
– Become known
– Visit many different places
– Walk or go to places
– Avoid a problem
– Persuade, convince
– Have personal or sexual relationships with many people
Get around to
– Finally manage to do something, make the effort to do something
Get at
– Criticize
– Mean
– Be able to reach, find, access
– Use threats, payments, bribes, etc, to affect someone’s testimony or decision
Get away
– Escape
– Go on holiday or for a short break
– Move, leave somewhere
Get away from
– Go somewhere different or do something different
– Start to talk about something that is not relevant to the discussion
Get away with
– Not get caught, criticized or punished for doing something wrong
– Achieve something, despite not doing it correctly or properly
Get away!
– An expression of disbelief
Get back
– Return
– Return something
– Revenge
– Move away
– Move away
Get back at
– Take revenge
Get back into
– Start doing something after stopping for some time
– Find a new enthusiasm for something
Get back to
– Respond to a contact
– Respond when you know the answer
– Start doing something again after an interruption
Get back together
– Restart a relationship
Get behind
– Support
Get behind with
– Be late paying installments for something.
Get by
– Have just enough money to live on
– Not be noticed (problems, errors, etc)
Get by on
– Manage on a certain amount of money
Get by with
Have enough of something to do the job
Get down
– Make someone depressed, unhappy, exhausted, etc.
– Write, record
– Manage to swallow
– Descend, leave a vehicle
– Leave the table after eating
– Reduce
– Have an affair or sexual relations
Get down on
– Criticize
Get down to
– Start working seriously
– Enjoy something a lot

Get in
– Arrange for someone to do a job in your home, workplace, etc
– Arrive (train, plane, etc.)
– Arrive home
– Enter a car or taxi
– Buy or obtain supplies, like food
– Arrive at work, school, home
– Enter a building or place
– Be elected
– Manage to say or do
– Be admitted to a university, club, etc
– Bring inside a place
– Submit, apply
– Pay for drinks
Get in on
– Become involved
Get in with
– Become friendly with, ingratiate with
Get into
– Become involved or interested
– Become involved in something bad or criminal
– Be accepted or admitted
– Become or be accepted as a member
– Start a habit or way of acting or behaving
– Be small enough to wear something
– Criticize
Get it
– Be punished or scolded
Get it off
– Have sex
Get it off with
– Have sex with Get it on
– Become interested or excited
– Have sex
Get it on with
– Have sex with
Get it together
– Control things in your life to achieve your aims
– Begin a relationship
Get it up
– Become aroused (of a man)
Get off
– Escape punishment
– Leave a bus, train, etc.
– Finish, leave work

Get off it
– A way of expressing disbelief
Get off on
– Enjoy a drug
– Become excited by
Get off with
– Have casual sex with
Get off!
– Don’t touch, leave alone
Get on
– Continue doing something
– Enter a bus, train, plane, etc.
– Make progress, deal with something with a reasonable degree of success
– Have a good relationship
– Become old, age
– Be late or near an arranged time
– Wear, fit
– Leave
Get on at
– Criticize unfairly
Get on for
– Be near a time
Get on to
– Start to suspect
Get on with
Have a good relationship
– Continue or start doing something
Get onto
– Start discussing a topic
– Be elected, appointed
– Appear on the radio or TV
– Contact someone because you need or want them to do something
– Enter a plane, train, etc
Get out
– Leave the house to visit place and socialise
– Become known when people want it to remain secret
– Leave a place, escape
– Remove something from where it is stored to use it
– Remove dirt or something unwanted
– Publish, make available for the public to see or buy
– Say what you want when it is difficult
Get out of
– Avoid doing something you dislike
– Leave a car, van, etc.
– Stop a regular activity or habit
– Make someone confess or tell the truth
Get out!
– Expression of disbelief
Get over
– Recover from something, feel better
– Solve, find a solution
– Communicate, make people understand
– Be shocked or surprised that something if real or true
– Get to the other side
– Come somewhere
Get over with
– Do something unpleasant that has to be done rather than delaying it any more
Get round
– Become known
– Find a solution
Get round (around) to
– Finally manage to do something
Get round (or around)
– Persuade someone
Get through
– Contact
– Consume
– Finish
Finish
– Succeed in an exam or test
– Help someone or something succeed or pass a test or exam
– Endure or deal with a difficult experience
– Be accepted or passed (laws, proposals, etc)
– Manage to pass
– Arrive
Get through to
– Make someone understand
– Contact, especially by phone
– Reach a stage in a competition
Get to
– Annoy, irritate
– Arrive
– Start discussing a topic
Get together
– Meet socially
Get up
– Get out of bed
– Organize
Get up to
– Do something wrong or naughty
Give (21)
Give away
– Entrust your daughter to her husband through the marriage ceremony
– Tell a secret, often unintentionally
– Distribute something for free
– Give without asking for or expecting payment
– Give an advantage to your opponent in a sport by making a mistake, playing badly, etc
– Give an unwanted baby to people to bring up
– Betray, report to authorities
– Give a weight advantage to an opponent in boxing
Give back
– Return something you’ve borrowed
– Return something that someone has lost
Give in
– Stop doing something because it’s too hard or requires too much energy
– Submit homework, etc.
– Surrender, accept defeat
– Offer or submit for judgment, approval
Give in to
– Agree to something you don’t like
– Allow a feeling or desire to control you
Give it to
Criticize harshly or punish someone for something
Give it up for
– Applaud
Give it up to
– Applaud
Give of
– Contribute without expecting anything in return, usually time or money
Give off
– Emit pollution or something else unpleasant
– Behave in a way that makes people think of you in a certain way
– Expand
– Follow or take one of 2 or more branches (instructions, in machine code) in writing a computer program (using system software for a programming language)
Give onto
– Open into a place, for a door or window
Give out
– Distribute
– Stop working, through age or overuse
– Have no more of a supply
– Make public
– Emit
– End or finish somewhere
– Make a sound or noise
– Read the wordings of a hymn or psalm aloud for congregational singing

Give over
– Stop doing something bad or annoying
– Entrust, pass on responsibility
– Stop an activity
Give over to
– Dedicate, devote
– Transfer responsibility
Give over!
– An expression of disbelief
Give up
– Stop doing something that has been a habit
– Stop being friendly, end relationships
– Stop doing something
– Surrender, stop trying
– Sacrifice or dedicate time, etc, to something
– Allow someone to sit in your chair, take your place, etc
– Allow or give away a run while pitching (baseball)
Give up on
– Lose faith in or stop believing in something or someone
– Stop feeling hope
Give up to
– Denounce, report to authorities
Give way
– Stop to allow vehicles to pass
– Collapse, break
Give way to
– Yield, surrender, retreat
– Relinquish position or ascendancy
– Be replaced by something better, cheaper, more modern, etc
– Allow a vehicle to pass in front
– Surrender to strong emotions
Give yourself up
– Surrender to the police or authorities
Give yourself up to
– Dedicate time, energy, etc, to something
Gloss (1)
Gloss over
– Try to minimize the importance of something
Gnaw (2)
Gnaw at
– Trouble, worry or annoy someone
– Harm gradually
Gnaw away at
– Harm gradually
Go (54)
Go about
– Deal with something
– Circulate
Go across
– Move to another side or place
Go after
– Chase, try to get
Go against
– Lose a decision or a verdict of a court
Go ahead
– Proceed
Go ahead with
– Proceed
Go along with
– Accept a decision or suggestion
Go around
– Circulate
– Be or have enough of something
– Visit
Go at
– Attack or approach something with vigour
Go away
– Leave a place or disappear
Go back
– Have a long history
– Return to, start doing something again
Go back on
– Break a promise
Go before
– Precede
Go below
– Leave the top deck of a ship
Go by
– The passing of time
– Trust or depend on for correct information
– Pay a short visit, call

Go down
– Decrease, get smaller
– Sink
– Sunset
– Be sent to to prison
– Become recorded as or known as
– Be eaten or swallowed
– Fall to the ground
– Happen, take place
– Stop working, especially computers
– Become dimmer
– Be received by people, in terms of their reaction
Go down on
– Perform oral sex
Go down to
– Be defeated
Go down with
– Fall ill
– Find acceptance
Go for
– Attack
– Be attracted to
– Choose, select
– Try to get
– Have something favorable
– Pass for or serve as
Go for it
– Be assertive and ready to initiate action. (Related to the meaning ‘attack’)
Go forth
– Leave a place
– Travel abroad, leave a place
Go forward
– Move clocks ahead
– Progress
Go in
– Go to hospital for treatment, surgery, etc.
– Fit
– Disappear, become obscured by a cloud
– Attack
Go in for
– Enter a competition or sit an exam
– Support, advocate
– Like, have an interest in
– Make a career choice

Go in with
– Form a union or alliance
– Join, enter
Go into
– Discuss in some detail
– Enter a profession, hospital, trade, market
– Begin a speech or description
– Be dedicated or devoted
– Be contained in a larger number
Go it
– Behave in a reckless way
– Move or drive very fast
Go it alone
– Do something without help
Go off
– Explode (bomb), start ringing (alarm)
– Go bad
– Start to dislike
– Leave a place
– Take place, follow a plan or pattern
– Stop working (electric/electronic equipment)
Go off with
– Elope, run away with someone
– Steal
Go on
– Continue
– Happen
– Start doing or taking something
– Be guided
– Be nearly a certain period of time
– Progress
– Spend money
– Start working (electric/electronic equipment)
Go on about
– Talk too much
Go on at
– Pester, try to make someone do something by repeatedly asking or suggesting
Go on to
– Proceed
Go on with
– Continue doing
Go one
– A way of encouraging someone

Go out
– Stop burning, be extinguished
– Leave a place
– Go on strike
– Become in fashionable
– Move backwards, of a tide
– Be eliminated in a competition
– Be transmitted
– Be sent
– Intend
Go out for
– Become a candidate, apply for something
Go out to
– Feel sympathy with someone
Go out with
– Have a relationship with
Go over
– Look at something, revise
– Visit
– Be approved or accepted
– Repeat or explain
– Clean
Go over to
– Go on a journey
– Become converted
– Change to something different
Go past
– Pass without stopping
Go round
– Be or have enough of something
– Circulate
– Visit
Go through
– Experience
– Read again
– Examine, search
– Do something in a certain way or following certain procedures
– Explain
– Be approved formally or sanctioned
– Enter
– Consume or spend
– Perform or carry something out
Go through with
– Do or complete something you’ve agreed to
Go together
– Harmonize or be compatible
Go towards
– Contribute
Go under
– Go bankrupt
– Lose consciousness
– Sink
Go up
– Rise or climb
– Approach
– Be built
– Be heard
– Be promoted
Go up to
– Approach
– Attend a university
– Reach
Go with
– Combine nicely
– Accompany
– Accept, agree to
– Date, have a relationship with
Go without
– Not have
– Cope without having something
Goof (3)
Goof around
– Fool around, not be serious
Goof off
– Avoid or leave work
Goof up
– Mess, spoil
Grass (2)
Grass on
– Report someone to a person in authority
Grass up
– Report someone to a person in authority
Grey (1)
Grey out
– Disable a function in a computer program, leaving it visible but not working
Grind (6)
Grind away
– Keep working at something
Grind down
– Reduce or destroy someone’s enthusiasm
Grind into
– Press or twist something hard into something else
Grind on
– Proceed relentlessly
– Talk endlessly
Grind out
– Produce something with great difficulty
Grind up
– Reduce to small pieces
Grow (13)
Grow apart
– Become distant, stop having a close relationship because time, distance, interests, etc, have changed
Grow away from
– Become less friendly with
Grow back
– Grow again
Grow from
– Result from a process
Grow into
– Grow to fit large clothes
– Mature or change into
– Develop or change over time to fit something
Grow on
– Like something that you didn’t like at first
– Have a greater influence or degree of acceptance
– Become gradually more evident
Grow out
– Let hair, etc, with dyes, perms grow to get rid of the style
Grow out of
– Grow too large for clothes
– Lose interest as you grow older or become more mature
– Result or develop from
Grow to
– Eventually do something
Grow together
– Gradually become attached, united or close

Grow up
– Mature, become adult
– Arise, emerge
– Develop in a place or for a reason (city, town, etc)
Grow up on
– Do or have something when you are a child
Grow upon
– Like something that you didn’t like at first
– Have a greater influence or degree of acceptance
– Become gradually more evident