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Phrasal Verbs - Star Wars Episode V - the Empire Strikes Back
1. Phrasal Verbs - Star Wars V
Andrew Ernest Ritz
Langtech
April 6, 2016
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2. Phrasal Verbs
Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
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3. 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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4. be quiet
verb –. (1) close up, clam up, dummy up, shut up, belt up, button
up, be quiet, keep mum – (refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent;
”The children shut up when their father approached”)
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5. break up
noun –1. (2) dissolution, breakup – (the termination or disintegration
of a relationship (between persons or nations))
verb –1. (5) disperse, dissipate, dispel, break up, scatter – (to cause
to separate and go in different directions; ”She waved her hand and
scattered the crowds”)
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6. check in
noun –. check-in – (the act of reporting your presence (as at an
airport or a hotel))
verb –. (3) check in, sign in – (announce one’s arrival, e.g. at hotels
or airports)
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7. come along
verb –1. (7) appear, come along – (come into being or existence, or
appear on the scene; ”Then the computer came along and changed
our lives”; ”Homo sapiens appeared millions of years ago”)
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8. 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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9. come on
noun –1. bait, come-on, hook, lure, sweetener – (anything that
serves as an enticement)
verb –1. (9) 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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10. come with
verb –. (6) 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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11. cover for
verb –. cover for – (provide an excuse or alibi for someone so as to
cover up guilt; ”I won’t lie and cover for you”)
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12. cut in
noun –1. cut-in, insert – ((broadcasting) a local announcement
inserted into a network program)
verb –1. cut in – (allow someone to have a share or profit)
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13. 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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14. drop by
verb –. (1) drop by, drop in, come by – (visit informally and
spontaneously; ”We frequently drop by the neighbors’ house for a cup
of coffee”)
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15. fall back
noun –. disengagement, fallback, pullout – (to break off a military
action with an enemy)
verb –1. (2) fall back – (fall backwards and down)
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16. fall in
verb –1. (3) collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder –
(break down, literally or metaphorically; ”The wall collapsed”; ”The
business collapsed”; ”The dam broke”; ”The roof collapsed”; ”The
wall gave in”; ”The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice”)
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17. fall into
verb –. (14) fall into, fall under – (be included in or classified as;
”This falls under the rubric ’various’”)
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18. feel like
verb –. (12) feel like – (have an inclination for something or some
activity; ”I feel like staying in bed all day”; ”I feel like a cold beer
now”)
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19. 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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20. fire up
verb –1. inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire up – (arouse or
excite feelings and passions; ”The ostentatious way of living of the
rich ignites the hatred of the poor”; ”The refugees’ fate stirred up
compassion around the world”; ”Wake old feelings of hatred”)
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21. get it
verb –1. (4) catch on, get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton
on, twig, get it – (understand, usually after some initial difficulty;
”She didn’t know what her classmates were plotting but finally
caught on”)
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22. 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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23. 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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24. get up
noun –. outfit, getup, rig, turnout – (a set of clothing (with
accessories); ”his getup was exceedingly elegant”)
verb –1. (15) arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up – (rise to one’s feet;
”The audience got up and applauded”)
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25. 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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26. go away
verb –1. (4) go, go away, depart – (move away from a place into
another direction; ”Go away before I start to cry”; ”The train departs
at noon”)
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27. go back
verb –1. (4) go back, date back, date from – (belong to an earlier
time; ”This story dates back 200 years”)
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28. go for
verb –1. (1) apply, hold, go for – (be pertinent or relevant or
applicable; ”The same laws apply to you!”; ”This theory holds for all
irrational numbers”; ”The same rules go for everyone”)
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29. 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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30. go out
verb –1. (21) 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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31. 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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32. 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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33. have got
verb –. (16) have, have got, hold – (have or possess, either in a
concrete or an abstract sense; ”She has 1,000 in the bank”; ”He has
got two beautiful daughters”; ”She holds a Master’s degree from
Harvard”)
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34. have on
verb –. (8) wear, have on – (be dressed in; ”She was wearing yellow
that day”)
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35. 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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36. hold out
noun –1. holdout – (a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by
refusing to come to terms; ”their star pitcher was a holdout for six
weeks”)
verb –1. (5) exsert, stretch out, put out, extend, hold out, stretch
forth – (thrust or extend out; ”He held out his hand”; ”point a
finger”; ”extend a hand”; ”the bee exserted its sting”)
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37. let go
verb –1. (6) let go of, let go, release, relinquish – (release, as from
one’s grip; ”Let go of the door handle, please!”; ”relinquish your grip
on the rope–you won’t fall”)
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38. live down
verb –. unlive, live down – (live so as to annul some previous
behavior; ”You can never live this down!”)
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39. live with
verb –. accept, live with, swallow – (tolerate or accommodate oneself
to; ”I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions”; ”I
swallowed the insult”; ”She has learned to live with her husband’s
little idiosyncrasies”)
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40. look around
verb –. (13) look around – (look about oneself; ”look around to see
whether you can find the missing document”)
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41. 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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42. make it
verb –1. (7) survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it
– (continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); ”He survived the
cancer against all odds”)
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43. make sure
verb –. (5) make a point, make sure – (make a point of doing
something; act purposefully and intentionally)
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44. out in
verb –. call at, out in – (enter a harbor; ”the ship called in Athens”)
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45. pay for
verb –. invite, pay for – (have as a guest; ”I invited them to a
restaurant”)
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46. pay off
noun –1. payoff, final payment – (the final payment of a debt)
verb –1. (4) pay off – (yield a profit or result; ”His efforts finally paid
off”)
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47. prepare for
verb –. (7) steel oneself against, steel onself for, brace oneself for,
prepare for – (prepare mentally or emotionally for something
unpleasant)
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48. put in
noun –. Putin, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin –
(Russian statesman chosen as president of the Russian Federation in
2000; formerly director of the Federal Security Bureau (born in 1952))
verb –1. (6) insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce –
(introduce; ”Insert your ticket here”)
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49. shut down
noun –. (5) closure, closedown, closing, shutdown – (termination of
operations; ”they regretted the closure of the day care center”)
verb –. (2) close up, close, fold, shut down, close down – (cease to
operate or cause to cease operating; ”The owners decided to move
and to close the factory”; ”My business closes every night at 8 P.M.”;
”close up the shop”)
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50. shut up
verb –1. (6) close up, clam up, dummy up, shut up, belt up, button
up, be quiet, keep mum – (refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent;
”The children shut up when their father approached”)
adj –. (1) pent, shut up – (closely confined)
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51. sit down
noun –. (1) sit-down, sit-down strike – (a strike in which workers
refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached)
verb –1. (38) sit down, sit – (take a seat)
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52. slow down
noun –. slowdown, lag, retardation – (the act of slowing down or
falling behind)
verb –1. (5) decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard – (lose
velocity; move more slowly; ”The car decelerated”)
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53. 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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54. stay put
verb –. (2) stay, stick, stick around, stay put – (stay put (in a certain
place); ”We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati”;
”Stay put in the corner here!”; ”Stick around and you will learn
something!”)
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55. switch off
verb –. (2) switch off, cut, turn off, turn out – (cause to stop
operating by disengaging a switch; ”Turn off the stereo, please”; ”cut
the engine”; ”turn out the lights”)
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56. switch over
verb –. switch over, switch, exchange – (change over, change around,
as to a new order or sequence)
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57. take care
verb –1. (9) take care – (be careful, prudent, or watchful; ”Take care
when you cross the street!”)
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58. take on
verb –1. (10) assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take – (take on a
certain form, attribute, or aspect; ”His voice took on a sad tone”;
”The story took a new turn”; ”he adopted an air of superiority”; ”She
assumed strange manners”; ”The gods assume human or animal form
in these fables”)
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59. turn around
noun –1. reversal, turn around – (turning in an opposite direction or
position; ”the reversal of the image in the lens”)
The noun turnaround has 5 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. turnaround, turnaround time – (time need to prepare a vessel or
ship for a return trip)
verb –1. (10) swing around, swing about, turn around – (turn
abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically;
”He turned around to face his opponent”; ”My conscience told me to
turn around before I made a mistake”)
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60. 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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61. 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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