Multi-word Verbs

Multi-word verbs são verbos que consistem de um verbo e uma ou duas partículas ou preposições.
Existem três tipos de multi-word verbs, que são: phrasal verbs, prepositional verbs e phrasal prepositional verbs. Phrasal verbs tem duas partes: um verbo principal e uma partícula advérbio. Phrasal verbs são frequentemente, mas não sempre, menos formal do que uma única palavra com o mesmo significado.

Prepositional Verbs

Verbos preposicionados tem duas partes: um verbo e uma preposição que não podem ser separados um do outro. Exemplo: break into, do without, get off, get on, go into, look at, look after, look for, look forward to, etc.

Phrasal Prepositional Verbs

Tem três partes: um verbo, uma partícula e uma preposição. A partícula e a preposição não podem ser separados. Muitos desses verbos são muitas vezes utilizados em contextos informais, e seu significado é difícil adivinhar a partir de suas partes individuais. Verb+particle+preposition. Exemplo: catch up with, get on with, get away with, look up to, look in on, etc. Abaixo alguns exemplos.

SB - abreviação de somebody

STH - abreviação de something
Verbos marcados ❎ são separáveis. Se o objeto é um substantivo, ele pode ir antes ou depois da partícula. Se o objeto é um pronome, ele deve ir antes da partícula.

Multi-word verbs	Meaning
Act up	Misbehave badly, act in a silly or improper way.
Add (sth) up ❎	To join or combine numebr through addiction / Determine the sum of.
Ask around ❎	To try t find out information about something by asking a lot of different people.
Ask (sth) out	Invite someone to something / To invite someone to a social engagement.
Blow up	To explode (a bomb) / Lose one’s temper.
Blow (sth) up ❎	An enlarged version of a photograph / Cause to explode.
Break down	To stop functioning / To destroy or move something.
Break up	To end a relationship or partnership / Separate.
Bring (sb) up	To take care of and educate (a child).
Call back/Call (sb) back ❎	To telephone or radio (a person) who has called previously.
Call (sth) off ❎	To cancel or postpone.
Call (sb) up ❎	Return or repeat a telephone call.
Carry (sth) on ❎	To continue or to persevere.
Carry out ❎	To put into practice or effect.
Catch up with (sb) ❎	To capture especially after a chase / To reach just in time.
Check in (at...)	A ticket, to register the arrival of passengers (a hotel, etc).
Check (sth) in ❎	Deliver something (luggage).
Check out (of...)/Check (sth-sb) out ❎	To depart from a place / To investigate or prove to be in order after investigation.
Cheer (sth) up ❎	Cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful.
Multi-word verbs	Meaning
Clean (sth) up ❎	To rid (something) of dirt, filth, or other impurities.
Come across (sb-sth)	To meet or find by chance.
Come apart	Become separated into pieces or fragments.
Come down with (sth)	To become sick.
Come down to	If a situation or decision comes down to something.
Come off	To happen as planned or to succeed.
Come out	To become known. To be issued or brought out.
Come over to	To change sides.
Come around/round to	To change one's opinion or position
Count on (sb-sth)	To rely or depend on.
Cross (sth) out ❎	Remove from a list. Take out.
Cut back on (sth) ❎	To reduce or decrease.
Cut down	To kill or strike down. Make a reduction in.
Cut in	To interrupt. To move into a line of people or things out of turn.
Cut (sb) off ❎	Break the line of communication (telephone)
Cut (sth) off ❎	To separate from the others.
Do away with (sth)	To get rid of something or stop using something.
Do (sth) over ❎	To do something again.
Dress up	To wear a costume or style of clothing. Put on special clothes.

Multi-word verbs	Meaning
Drop back/behind	To lag or linger behind. Take position in the rear.
Drop by/over/in/round	To stop in for a short visit.
Drop (sth/sb) off ❎	To fall asleep. To take someone or sth to a particular place.
Drop out of (sth)	To withdraw from participation, as in a game, club, or school.
Eat out / eat (sth) up ❎	Eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home
End up (in/as sth/doing sth/ + ing)	Finally be or do something. To reach or come to an end, usually unpleasant
Face up to (sb/sth)	To confront an unpleasant situation with resolution and assurance.
Fall apart	To break down, collapse. To suffer a nervous breakdown.
Fall behind (sth/sb)	To fail to keep up a pace, lag behind.
Fall down	To fail to meet expectations.
Fall for (sb)	To feel love for, be in love with.
Fall out	To drop or come down freely under the influence of gravity. Come off (hair)
Fall over	To lose one's balance and collapse to the ground.
Figure (sth/sb) out ❎	To discover or decide.
Fill (sth) in	To write information in a blank space, as on a form. To act as a substitute, stand in.
Fill (sth) out ❎	To become or make more fleshy. Write all the required   information onto a form.
Fill up / Fill (sth) up ❎	To make or become completely full.
Find out (about)	Discover.
Fix up ❎	Organize/arrange.

Multi-word verbs	Meaning
Finish (sth) off ❎	Finish a task completely.
Finish up	To end. The last of, to finish.
Finish with (sb/sth)	To end a relationship. Stop using or needing something.
Follow (sth) up ❎	To pursue or investigate (a person, evidence, etc.)
Get at	To touch or reach successfully. To try make understandable.
Get (sth) across ❎	To make understandable or clear.
Get along/on (with sb)	To be friendly.
Get around/round (sb)	Be released or become known. To deal with.
Get away	To break free, escape. To leave or go away.
Get back	To return to a person, place or condition.
Get in	To arrive. To enter.
Get off	To start, as on a trip; leave.
Get on/get onto	To be or continue to be on harmonious term.
Get over (sth/sb)	To cross something. To recover from (an illness, etc)
Get through (to sb)	To bring or come to a destination. To contact, as by telephone.
Get together (with sb)	To bring together. To arrive at an agreement.
Get up/get (sb) up	Leave your bed.
Give (sb) away ❎	To make a gift of. To present (a bride) to the bridegroom at a wedding ceremony.
Give back (to sb) ❎	To return.
Give out ❎	To allow to be known; declare publicly. Give to several people.

Multi-word verbs	Meaning
Give up ❎	Stop (often a bad habit)
Go after (sb/sth)	The intent to catch. To follow or chase.
Go against (sb/sth)	To oppose or refuse to act on.
Go ahead	Proceed (with a plan of action)
Go away	Move away from a place into another direction.
Go back (to...)	Return in thought or speech to something.
Go for (sb/sth)	Be pertinent or relevant or applicable.
Go in	To come or go into.
Go on	To continue. To keep on doing (something)
Go out	To take part in social life outside the home. (party, etc)
Go through (sth)	To experience. To examine carefully.
Grow up	To become an adult.
Hang in	To persevere.
Hang on	To spend time in a place habitually.
Hang up	To end a telephone conversation.