Phrasal Verb


Phrasal verbs are two or more words that come together to give us a new verb with a different meaning from the original words.


Phrasal Verb:
cough something up

Meaning / Example:

1. to get something out of the body by coughing.
> She coughed some matter up and took some more medicine.

2. Euph. to vomit something.
> The dog coughed the rabbit up.
> The dog coughed up the food it had eaten.

3. Sl. to produce or present something, such as an amount of money.


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Phrasal verbs are compound verbs that result from combining a verb with an adverb or a preposition. The resulting compound verb is idiomatic.

A compilation of 50 phrasal verbs.
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