This document provides definitions and examples of phrasal verbs from the Star Wars universe. It defines several common phrasal verbs in short entries of around 3 sentences each, including definitions like "back down" meaning to withdraw or retract a position, and examples from Star Wars dialogue or scenarios. The document is authored by Andrew Ernest Ritz from Langtech and focuses on phrasal verbs that could potentially come up in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
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Phrasal Verbs - Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones
1. Phrasal Verbs - Star Wars II
Andrew Ernest Ritz
Langtech
April 6, 2016
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2. Phrasal Verbs
Episode II - Attack Of The Clones
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3. back down
noun –. withdrawal, backdown, climb-down – (a retraction of a
previously held position)
verb –1. (2) back up, back off, back down – (move backwards from a
certain position; ”The bully had to back down”)
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4. be given
verb –. tend, be given, lean, incline, run – (have a tendency or
disposition to do or be something; be inclined; ”She tends to be
nervous before her lectures”; ”These dresses run small”; ”He inclined
to corpulence”)
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5. be on
verb –. (1) get on, be on – (appear in a show, on T.V. or radio; ”The
news won’t be on tonight”)
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6. break away
noun –. (1) breakaway, breaking away – (the act of breaking away or
withdrawing from; ”there was a breakaway by the discontented
members”; ”a breaking away from family and neighborhood”)
verb –1. (2) break, break out, break away – (move away or escape
suddenly; ”The horses broke from the stable”; ”Three inmates broke
jail”; ”Nobody can break out–this prison is high security”)
adj –. breakaway, fissiparous, separatist – (having separated or
advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; ”a
breakaway faction”)
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7. call for
verb –1. (24) request, bespeak, call for, quest – (express the need or
desire for; ask for; ”She requested an extra bed in her room”; ”She
called for room service”)
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8. calm down
verb –1. (4) calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle
down, cool it – (become quiet or calm, especially after a state of
agitation; ”After the fight both men need to cool off.”; ”It took a
while after the baby was born for things to settle down again.”)
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9. come back
noun –1. (2) rejoinder, retort, return, riposte, replication, comeback,
counter – (a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or
critical one); ”it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher”)
verb –1. (3) come back, return – (be restored; ”Her old vigor
returned”)
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10. come home
verb –. (1) click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in,
penetrate, fall into place – (become clear or enter one’s consciousness
or emotions; ”It dawned on him that she had betrayed him”; ”she was
penetrated with sorrow”)
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11. come to
verb –1. (10) hit, strike, come to – (cause to experience suddenly;
”Panic struck me”; ”An interesting idea hit her”; ”A thought came to
me”; ”The thought struck terror in our minds”; ”They were struck
with fear”)
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12. do it
verb –. sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love,
sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have
intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie
with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk – (have sexual
intercourse with; ”This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm”;
”Adam knew Eve”; ”Were you ever intimate with this man?”)
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13. end up
verb –. (3) finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up, finish –
(finally be or do something; ”He ended up marrying his high school
sweetheart”; ”he wound up being unemployed and living at home
again”)
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14. find out
verb –1. (33) determine, find, find out, ascertain – (establish after a
calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; ”find the
product of two numbers”; ”The physicist who found the elusive
particle won the Nobel Prize”)
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15. get away
noun –1. pickup, getaway – (the attribute of being capable of rapid
acceleration; ”his car has a lot of pickup”)
verb –1. (8) escape, get away, break loose – (run away from
confinement; ”The convicted murderer escaped from a high security
prison”)
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16. get back
verb –1. (4) win back, get back – (recover something or somebody
that appeared to be lost; ”We got back the money after we
threatened to sue the company”; ”He got back his son from the
kidnappers”)
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17. get on
verb –1. (2) get along with, get on with, get on, get along – (have
smooth relations; ”My boss and I get along very well”)
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18. get out
verb –1. (31) exit, go out, get out, leave – (move out of or depart
from; ”leave the room”; ”the fugitive has left the country”)
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19. get to
verb –1. (4) reach, make, get to, progress to – (reach a goal, e.g.,
”make the first team”; ”We made it!”; ”She may not make the
grade”)
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20. give in
verb –1. (5) submit, bow, defer, accede, give in – (yield to another’s
wish or opinion; ”The government bowed to the military pressure”)
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21. give up
verb –1. (9) forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo, forego –
(lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or
crime; ”you’ve forfeited your right to name your successor”; ”forfeited
property”)
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22. go home
verb –. (21) go home, head home – (return home; ”After the movie,
we went home”)
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23. go in
verb –. (10) enter, come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move into
– (to come or go into; ”the boat entered an area of shallow marshes”)
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24. go through
verb –1. (8) experience, see, go through – (go or live through; ”We
had many trials to go through”; ”he saw action in Viet Nam”)
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25. go to
verb –. (31) attend, go to – (be present at (meetings, church
services, university), etc.; ”She attends class regularly”; ”I rarely
attend services at my church”; ”did you go to the meeting?”)
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26. go with
verb –1. (10) attach to, accompany, come with, go with – (be
present or associated with an event or entity; ”French fries come with
the hamburger”; ”heart attacks are accompanied by distruction of
heart tissue”; ”fish usually goes with white wine”; ”this kind of vein
accompanies certain arteries”)
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27. grow up
verb –. (17) grow up – (become an adult)
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28. hang on
verb –1. (4) append, tag on, tack on, tack, hang on – (fix to; attach;
”append a charm to the necklace”)
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29. hem in
noun –. hemin, protohemin – (a reddish-brown chloride of heme;
produced from hemoglobin in laboratory tests for the presence of
blood)
verb –1. (1) hem in – (surround in a restrictive manner; ”The
building was hemmed in by flowers”)
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30. hold on
verb –1. (5) grasp, hold on – (hold firmly)
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31. lay down
verb –. (8) lay down, establish, make – (institute, enact, or establish;
”make laws”)
Overview of verb lie down
The verb lie down has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (11) lie down, lie – (assume a reclining position; ”lie down on the
bed until you feel better”)
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32. live in
verb –. (1) live in, sleep in – (live in the house where one works; ”our
babysitter lives in, as it is too far to commute for her”)
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33. look at
verb –1. (17) consider, take, deal, look at – (take into consideration
for exemplifying purposes; ”Take the case of China”; ”Consider the
following case”)
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34. look for
verb –1. (50) search, seek, look for – (try to locate or discover, or try
to establish the existence of; ”The police are searching for clues”;
”They are searching for the missing man in the entire county”)
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35. look forward
verb –. (7) look forward – (expect or hope for; ”I look to hear from
you soon”)
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36. lose it
verb –. break down, lose it, snap – (lose control of one’s emotions;
”When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it
completely”; ”When her baby died, she snapped”)
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37. move on
verb –. (7) advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on –
(move forward, also in the metaphorical sense; ”Time marches on”)
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38. own up
verb –. make a clean breast of, own up, fess up – (admit or
acknowledge a wrongdoing or error; ”the writer of the anonymous
letter owned up after they identified his handwriting”)
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39. pay for
verb –. invite, pay for – (have as a guest; ”I invited them to a
restaurant”)
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40. pull up
noun –1. pull-in, pull-up – (a roadside cafe especially for lorry drivers)
verb –1. (6) draw up, pull up, haul up – (come to a halt after driving
somewhere; ”The Rolls pulled up on pour front lawn”; ”The chauffeur
hauled up in front of us”)
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41. reach out
verb –1. (4) reach, reach out – (move forward or upward in order to
touch; also in a metaphorical sense; ”Government reaches out to the
people”)
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42. settle down
verb –1. (4) settle, settle down – (settle into a position, usually on a
surface or ground; ”dust settled on the roofs”)
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43. show up
verb –1. (8) come on, come out, turn up, surface, show up – (appear
or become visible; make a showing; ”She turned up at the funeral”; ”I
hope the list key is going to surface again”)
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44. stand by
noun –1. (1) standby – (something that can be relied on when
needed)
verb –1. (4) stand by – (not act or do anything; ”He just stood by
when the police beat up the demonstrators”)
adj –. standby – (ready for emergency use; ”a standby generator”; ”a
standby crew”)
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45. stay away
verb –. stand back, keep one’s eyes off, keep one’s distance, keep
one’s hands off, stay away – (stay clear of, avoid; ”Keep your hands
off my wife!”; ”Keep your distance from this man–he is dangerous”)
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46. stay on
verb –. (5) stay, stay on, continue, remain – (continue in a place,
position, or situation; ”After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge
as a student adviser”; ”Stay with me, please”; ”despite student
protests, he remained Dean for another year”; ”She continued as
deputy mayor for another year”)
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47. take to
verb –1. (4) fancy, go for, take to – (have a fancy or particular liking
or desire for; ”She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the
jeweler’s window”)
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48. think back
verb –. (2) remember, think back – (recapture the past; indulge in
memories; ”he remembered how he used to pick flowers”)
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49. track down
verb –. (3) hunt, run, hunt down, track down – (pursue for food or
sport (as of wild animals); ”Goering often hunted wild boars in
Poland”; ”The dogs are running deer”; ”The Duke hunted in these
woods”)
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50. turn to
verb –1. (12) address, turn to – (speak to; ”He addressed the crowd
outside the window”)
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51. watch out
verb –. (5) watch, look out, watch out – (be vigilant, be on the
lookout or be careful; ”Watch out for pickpockets!”)
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52. work on
verb –1. (21) work at, work on – (to exert effort in order to do,
make, or perform something; ”the child worked at the multiplication
table until she had it down cold”)
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