PHRASAL VERBS part I

• break down - If a machine or vehicle breaks down, it stops working

• break down - to be unable to control your feelings and to start to cry

• break sth up - to divide into many pieces, or to divide something into many pieces

• break up - If a marriage breaks up or two people in a romantic relationship break up, their marriage or their relationship ends

• break out - to escape from prison

• bring sb up - to care for a child until it is an adult, often giving it particular beliefs

• bring sth up - to start to talk about a particular subject

• call sth off - to decide that a planned event, especially a sports event, will not happen, or to end an activity because it is no longer useful or possible = cancel

• do up - to fasten something or become fastened, opposite = undo

• find out - discover sth

• give up - to stop trying to guess

• give up sth - to stop doing something before you have finished it, usually because it is too difficult

• look after sb/sth - take care for sb/sth or be in charge of someone or something

• look forward to - to feel pleased and excited about something that is going to happen

• pass away - die, decease

• take up - to start doing a particular job or activity

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