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Phrasals T-Z

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Tack on

- Add something that wasn't planned

Tack onto

- Add or attach something that wasn't planned to something

Tail away

- Become silent or inaudible

Tail back

- Form a traffic jam

Tail off

- Become silent or inaudible
- Decrease

Take after

- Lookk like, resemble

Take apart

- Take something to pieces

Take aside

- Get someone alone to talk to them

Take away

- Remove

Take back

- Make someone nostalgic
- Retract a statement, admit that something was wrong

Take down

- Make notes or write down in full
- Remove

Take in

- Absorb information
- Deceive
- Make clothes smaller

Take it

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- Accept criticism

Take it out on

- Abuse someone because you're angry

Take off

- Make great progress
- Reduce the price of an item
- When a plane departs or leaves the grounnd

Take on

- Allow passengers on a ship or plane
- Assume a responsibility
- Employ

Take out

- Borrow aa library book
- Borrow money from a bank or other official lender
- Extract or remove
- Go out sociallyy with someone, especially a date
- Obtain insurance
- Kill, murder

Take over

- Assume control of a company or organisation

Take to

- Make a habit of something

Take up

- Fill or occupy time or space
- Make clothes shorter
- Start a new hobby, pastime, etc.

Talk back

- Respond rudely to a person in authority

Talk down

- Try to make something sound less important

Talk down to

- Talk in a way to show your superiority not communicate

Talk into

- Persuade someone to do something

Talk out of

- Persuade someone not to do something

Talk over

- Discuss

Talk through

- Guide someone through an issue

Talk up

- Make something appear more important or significant than it really is

Tap for

- Get money off someone

Tap into

- Use or exploit a plentiful resource for your benefit

Tap off with

- Have sex

Tap out

- Play a rhythm quietly

Tap up

- Approach a footballer illegally to get them to change teams

Tear apart

- Disturb or upset greatly

Tear at

- Pull or try to pull something to pieces

Tear away

- Stop someone doing something unwillingly
- Remove a surface violently

Tear down

- Demolish

Tear into

- Criticise strongly or angrily

Tear off

- Remove part of a form or letter using your hands, not scissors
- Leave at high speed
- Remove with fforce

Tear up

- Rip into pieces
- Destroy

Tell apart

- See a difference between two things

Tell off

- Chide; talk angrily to someone about something they've done wrong.

Tell on

- Report someone to an authority

Think over

- Consider something carefully

Think through

- Consider all the possibilities and outcomes of a situation

Think up

- Create or invent something, especially when lying

Throw away

- Discard something when no longer needed

Throw out

- Get rid of

Throw up

- Vomit

Tick away

- Pass (of time)

Tick by

- Pass (of time)

Tick off

- Annoy
- Scold

Tick over

- Continue working, but without improving
- Operate but without moving (engines)

Tide over

- Use something carefully so as not to finish it

Tidy up

- Put things in the correct place in a room

Tie up

- Tie or fasten something securely

Tighten up

- Make something more secure or function better

Tip off

- Secretly inform the police or authorities

Tip over

- Spill, make something fall on its side

Tire of

- Get bored of something

Tire out

- Make someone exhausted

Toddle off

- Leave, go home

Tone down

- Make something sound more moderate

Tool up

- Provide equipment
- Arm yourself or somebody

Top off

- Finish something in a special way

Top out

- Stop increasing, reach the highest point

Top up

- Refill something that isn't empty yet

Touch down

- Land (planes)

Touch for

- Borrow money

Touch off

- Cause a problem to occur

Touch on

- Mention

Touch up

- Improve the appearance of something
- Touch someone in a sexual way

Touch upon

- Mention

Toy at

- Pretend to think about or think about in a casual way

Toy over

- Think about something

Toy with

- Not eat much of a meal
- Consider something, but not very seriously
- Move or play with something to occupy yoour hands

Track down

- Find after a long search

Trade down

- Sell something and replace it with something cheaper

Trade in

- Exchange something old as part of the price of something new
- Leave your wife or husband to marry someone younger

Trade off

- Bargain, make a deal or compromise
- Accept something you don't really want to get something you do want

Trade on

-Exploit, use something to your advantage

Trade up

- Buy larger or more expensive items
- Leave your wife or husband and marry sommeone better looking, richer, etc

Trade upon

- Exploit, use to your advantage

Trickle down

- Pass benefits from economic expansion through the economy to the less fortunate

Trot out

- Make a statement (meant negatively)

Trump up

- Charge or accuse someone falsely

Try back

- Phone back

Try for

- Make an attempt to get something

Try it on

- Provoke someone by being annoying or behaving badly
- Attempt to get something, usually by deceit, without great hopes of success

Try on

- Put clothes on to see if they fit

Try out

- Test
- Test something to see if you like it or want to buy it

Try out for

- Be tested for a sports team

Tune in

- Watch or listen to a TV or radio show

Tune in to

- Watch or listen to a TV or radio programme

Tune out

- Ignore, not pay attention

Tune up

- Improve the performance of a machine or engine
- Tune a musical instrument before playing

Turn against

- Stop liking and start disliking

Turn away

- Not allow someone to enter a place

Turn down

- Reduce volume, temperature, etc.
- Reject an offer, invitation, etc.

Turn in

- Go to bed

Turn into

- Become

Turn off

- Stop a machine

Turn on

- Cause someone to feel attraction or pleasure
- Start a machine
- Attack

Turrn out

- Produce
- Produce an unexpected result
- Stop a light
- Attend

Turn over

- Give too the authorities

Turn to

- Try to get help
- Take up a habit

Turn up

- Appear
- Increase volume, temperature, etc.

Type up

- Type a finished version

Use up

- Finish or consume all of something

Veg out

- Relax, do nothing

Venture forth

Wade in

- Start something or get involved, often without thinking or to forcefully
- Attack

Wade into

- Become embroiled or involved in a situation, without thinking or planning usually

Wade through

- Get to the end of something with difficulty

Wait about

- Wait somewhere doing nothing

Wait around

- Wait somewhere doing nothing

Wait behind

- Stay somewhere after other people have left

Wait in

- Stay at home because someone is going to visit

Wait on

- Serve people in a restaurant
- Sell goods in a shop
- Provide someeone with everything they need or want
- Wait for a result before being able to make a decision

Wait out

- Wait till something has finished, usually something unpleasant

Wait up

- Not go to bed because you are waiting

Wait up!

- Stop (imperative)

Wait upon

- Provide someone with what they require
- Wait for a result before being able to make a decision

Wake up

- Stop sleeping

Walk away from

- Leave something you don't like

Walk away with

- Win easily

Walk in on

- Enter somewhere unexpectedly and see something

Walk into

- Get work without effort

Walk off

- Go for a walk to reduce the effects of an illness or bad feeling

Walk off with

- Win easily
- Take something without permission or steeal

Walk on

- Continue walking

Walk out

- Leave work because of a dispute with the management
- Leave a place angrily or because you aree not satisfied

Walk out on

- Leave somebody angrily

Walk up

- Go to someone

Want out

- Want to leave a relationship or arrangement

Warm up

- Do exercises before a sport

Wash away

- When floods or waves completely remove a structure, building, etc.

Wash down

- Drink in order to swallow something solid

Wash out

- Rain so heavily that an event has to be cancelled

Wash over

- Suddenly experience a strong emotion

Wash up

- Clean everything used to prepare food and eat it
- When something in the sea or river is left on the shore or bank

Watch out

- Be careful (imperative)

Watch out for

- Be careful of something

Watch over

- Keep an eye on something or someone to check that there's no trouble

Water down

- Make something weaker and less effective

Wear away

- Erode, remove gradually

Wear down

- Make something weaker

Wear off

- Stop having an effect

Wear out

- Use something until it stops working

Weed out

- Remove, get rid of

Weigh in

- Have a certain weight (in sports like boxing)
- Enter an argument forcefully

Weigh up

- Assess

Whip out

- Remove quickly

Whisk away

- Take to another place quickly

White out

- Use correction fluid to cover a mistake in a written text

Wimp out

- Not be brave enough to do something

Wind down

- Relax

Wind up

- Close a company because it's unprofitable
- Tighten the spring in a watch or clock tto make it work
- Irritate someone or increase their stress level, especially if done deliberately

Winkle out

- Find or get something that takes a great deal of effort

Wipe out

- Make someone very tired
- Kill all of a population, make extinct

Wire up

- Make electrical connections

Wise up

- Stop being stupid

Word up

- Give someone information, advice

Work off

- Exercise to remove stress or weight

Work on

- Improve or develop

Work out

- End nicely
- Find the answer or solution

Wrap up

- Cover in paper
- Dress warmly
- Finish

Write down

- Make notes

Write in

- Send a letter to a TV station, etc.

Write off

- Destroy a car in an accident

Write out

- Write something completely

Write up

- Make complete written version

Yield to

- Surrender

Zero in on

- Direct or focus attention on
- Head for, move towards

Zero out

- Cut off funding for a project
- Reduce to zero, cancel, remove

Zip around

- Move quickly

Zip by

- Pass quickly

Zip up

- Keep quiet

Zone out

- Not pay attention
- Dissociate yourself from a situation

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Zonk out

- Fall asleep

Zoom in

- Focus more closely

Zoom in on

- Focus more closely

Zoom off

- Go somewhere quickly

Zoom out

- Focus less closely

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