phrasal verb
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phrasal verb
–noun Grammar.
| a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts. |
[Origin: 1875–80
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| phrasal verb
n. An English verb complex consisting of a verb and one or more following particles and acting as a complete syntactic and semantic unit, as look up in She looked up the word in the dictionary or She looked the word up in the dictionary. |
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| phrasal verb | |
noun | |
| 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?'" |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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