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prepositional verb

noun

, Grammar.
  1. a combination of verb and preposition, often with idiomatic meaning, differing from other phrasal verbs in that an object must always follow the preposition, as take after in The children take after their mother.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of prepositional verb1

First recorded in 1960–65

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prepositional phraseprepositive

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