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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?'"

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phrasal verb

a phrase consisting of a verb and adverb or preposition, which together function as a verb
Example: `Leave out', `go without', `go away', are phrasal verbs.

Arabic:	فِعْل عِباري مُكَوَّن من فِعْل وَحَرْف جَر
Chinese (Simplified):	动词词组
Chinese (Traditional):	動詞詞組
Czech:	frázové sloveso
Danish:	fraseverbum
Dutch:	woordgroep die als werkwoord fungeert
Estonian:	ühendtegusõna
French:	verbe à postposition
German:	die Redewendung
Greek:	(περι)φραστικό ρήμα
Hungarian:	összetett ige
Icelandic:	sambandssögn
Indonesian:	frase verba

Japanese:	動詞句
Latvian:	frāzes darbības vārds
Lithuanian:	frazinis veiksmažodis
Norwegian:	verbaluttrykk
Polish:	czasownik złożony
Portuguese (Brazil):	verbo frásico
Romanian:	verb cu particulă adverbială
Russian:	фразовый глагол
Slovak:	frázové sloveso
Slovenian:	glagol s predlogom
Swedish:	frasverb
Turkish:	takım fiil