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 Definitions of phrasal verb  [ˈfreɪ zəl]  

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Definition of 'phrasal verb' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) phrasal verb
a combination of verb and one or more adverbs or prepositions, as catch on, take off, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning not predictable from the meanings of the individual parts.

Etymology:  (1875–80)

Definition of 'phrasal verb' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) phrasal verb
an English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit
"`turn out' is a phrasal verb in the question `how many turned out to vote?'"
Definition of 'phrasal verb' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) phrasal verb
a verb and an adverb or preposition combined to form a word with a new meaning
the definition of the phrasal verb "get up"
Translation of 'phrasal verb' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a phrase consisting of a verb and adverb or preposition, which together function as a verb
`Leave out', `go without', `go away', are phrasal verbs.
Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: werkwoordfrase Arabic flag Arabic: فِعْل عِباري مُكَوَّن من Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: фразеологичен глагол
Brazilian flag Brazilian: locução verbal Czech flag Czech: frázové sloveso German flag German: die Redewendung
Danish flag Danish: fraseverbum Greek flag Greek: (περι)φραστικό ρήμα Spanish flag Spanish: verbo compuesto
Estonian flag Estonian: ühendtegusõna Farsi flag Farsi: فعل مرکب Finnish flag Finnish: (rakenne, jossa on verbi
French flag French: verbeà postposition Hebrew flag Hebrew: נִיב פוֹעַלִי Hindi flag Hindi: संयुक्त क्रिया
Croatian flag Croatian: frazalni glagol Hungarian flag Hungarian: összetett ige Indonesian flag Indonesian: frase verba
Icelandic flag Icelandic: sambandssögn Italian flag Italian: frasale, sintagmatico Japanese flag Japanese: 動詞句
Korean flag Korean: 구동사 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: frazinis veiksmažodis Latvian flag Latvian: frāzes darbības vārds
Malay flag Malay: frasa kata kerja Dutch flag Dutch: woordgroep die als werkwo Norwegian flag Norwegian: verbaluttrykk
Polish flag Polish: czasownik złożony Persian flag Persian: فعل مرکب Pashto flag Pashto: مركب ګړ
Romanian flag Romanian: verb cu particulă adver­b Russian flag Russian: фразовый глагол Slovak flag Slovak: frázové sloveso
Slovenian flag Slovenian: glagol s predlogom Serbian flag Serbian: frazalni glagol Swedish flag Swedish: frasverb
Thai flag Thai: กริยาวลี Turkish flag Turkish: takım fiil Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 動詞片語
Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: фразове дієслово Urdu flag Urdu: شبہ جملہ Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: động ngữ
Chinese flag Chinese: 动词词组

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