break up break down break out break off bring down bring out bring up bring on call off

call out call away something call down someone's behavior

- to end a relationship with someone - to stop working - the start and sudden spreading of diseases - to suddenly end all communication - to cause someone to become sad or depressed - to cause a person to display a particular quality - to raise someone or to mention someone of something - to cause something to happen - to cancel an event - to challenge someone - to ask someone to move from some place or from doing - to reprimand a person, to express strong disapproval to

come over - come for a visit come round - to regain consciousness come into (smth) - to receive money or property from someone who has died come across - to find or discover someone or something by chance cut out cut across cut off place or thing cut out fall down fall through fall on go out go through go off (rotten, stale) go on look forward to - to eliminate someone or something - to reach beyond something, to embrace a wide variety - to block or isolate someone or something from some other - to leave quickly from a place because you are in a hurry - to drop or topple - to fail ( as in plans) - to collapse towards someone of something - to move outside - to be approved or accepted - to cease to be available (electricity), food to become spoilt - continue - to expect something positive to happen

look back on look up to look down on put down put off put away put forward pick out pick over pick up

- to remember, reflect, think about - to respect, honour, admire someone - to regards someone or something with condescension - to write down, to bring to an end, to criticise - to delay or postpone, to repulse - to renounce or discard, to bury - to propose for consideration - to choose or select - to sort out or examine item by item - to take or collect, to acquire casually

make out - to understand, to get along, to kiss make up - to create, to construct, to invent (as in lies), to compensate make over - to redo, renovate, to change or transfer ownership of something by means of a legal document make of - to interpret as the meaning of back down back away back off back up turn off turn away turn down turn up give away give off give back give up - to withdraw from a position, opinion - to retreat, withdraw from a position - to retreat, draw away - to support, to make copies of files, etc. - to stop operating - to send away, dismiss - to reject or refuse someone or something - to increase, to appear - to reveal (a secret), to betray, to make a gift of - to emit, to send forth - to return - to surrender, to admit defeat

take off take out take over take on

- to remove clothing, to deduct as a discount - to extract, to remove - to assume control, management, to become dominant - to undertake or begin, to hire someone

set about set off set up set back turn back turn into run up to run up against run out on run down with put by put through go up go through life) look out for for look over get by get over get off get down fall down fall off fall behind fall away someone

- to start doing something - to start a trip, to trigger a reaction - to create or establish - to postpone, to hold back to a later time - to return something or move backwards - to change into something - to amass, incur etc. - to experience difficulty with someone or the something - to leave or stop supporting someone who depends on week - as in run down with flu - feeling tired and sick - to save for later use - to bring to a successful end, to cause or to undergo - to increase (as in prices) - to experience something (as in experience some hardship in

- to feel responsibility for someone or something, to watch out - to examine and inspect - to succeed with minimal effort, to survive, etc. - to overcome something - to start a trip, leave - to descend - to cause to end something (as in of an empire) - to become less, decrease, to lose weight - to fail to keep up pace, to lag behind, to be financially in arrears - to distance yourself from someone; to end an association with

show out showdown

- to accompany or escort someone out of a place - noun - an event, usually a confrontation that forces an issue

to a conclusion show up show off

- appear, emerge - to display or behave in an ostentatious or conspicuous way

split through - separated throughout a period of time, etc. split down - noun - a decrease in the number of outstanding share of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity split up - to separate, break up, etc. split in - as in split in two or three - to separate into parts