100 Essential Phrasal Verbs for PSC
Phrasal Verb
Meaning
Abide by
To follow a rule or decision
Account for
To explain the reason for
Add up
To make sense
Ask for
To request
Back out
To withdraw from a promise
Back up
To support or give help
Bear out
To confirm or support
Bear with
To be patient with
Blow out
To extinguish
Blow up
To explode
Break down
Stop functioning / Lose control
Break into
To enter by force
Break off
To end a relationship
Break out
To start suddenly (war/disease)
Break up
To end a gathering or relation
Bring about
To cause to happen
Bring forward
To present for consideration
Bring up
To raise or rear
Call at
To visit a place
Call for
To demand or require
Call in
To summon or invite
Call off
To cancel
Call on
To visit a person
Call up
To recall or telephone
Carry on
To continue
Carry out
To execute or perform
Check in
To register arrival
Check out
To pay and leave
Clean up
To make tidy
Close down
To stop operating
Come across
To meet by chance
Come by
To obtain or get
Come off
To succeed or happen
Come out
To be published
Count on
To rely or depend on
Cut down
To reduce in size or amount
Cut off
To isolate or stop supply
Die out
To become extinct
Do away with
To abolish
Drop in
To visit casually
Eat into
To consume or use up
Fall apart
To break into pieces
Fall back on
To use as a last resort
Fall out
To quarrel
Fall through
To fail
Figure out
To understand or solve
Fill in
To complete a form
Find out
To discover
Get along
To have a friendly relation
Get at
To reach or imply
Get away
To escape
Get by
To manage with difficulty
Get over
To recover from
Give away
To distribute or reveal
Give in
To surrender / yield
Give up
To stop trying or quit
Go through
To experience / examine
Hand over
To give responsibility
Hang on
To wait
Hold on
To wait for a short time
Keep on
To continue
Keep up with
To stay at the same level
Lay off
To dismiss from jobs
Leave out
To omit
Let down
To disappoint
Look after
To take care of
Look down upon
To regard as inferior
Look for
To search
Look forward to
To anticipate with pleasure
Look into
To investigate
Look up to
To respect
Make out
To understand or see
Make up
To invent or reconcile
Make up for
To compensate
Pass away
To die
Pass by
To go past
Pick out
To choose
Put off
To postpone
Put on
To wear
Put out
To extinguish
Put up with
To tolerate
Run after
To chase
Run into
To meet by chance
Run out of
To finish supply
Run over
To drive over
Set in
To begin (season)
Set off
To start a journey
Set up
To establish
Stand by
To support
Stand for
To represent
Take after
To resemble
Take off
To leave ground / remove
Take over
To assume control
Take up
To start a hobby
Tell upon
To affect adversely
Turn down
To reject
Turn off
To switch off
Turn on
To switch on
Wait for
To stay for
Work out
To solve or exercise