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phrasal verb

noun

Definitions

  1. A two-word verb, consisting of a verb and a "small" adverb or particle, that has an…

    A two-word verb, consisting of a verb and a "small" adverb or particle, that has an idiomatic meaning not easily predictable from the individual parts.

    • In 'The police told the driver to pull over', 'pull over' is a phrasal verb.
    • In every section of this invaluable work new light is thrown on ancient problems - phrasal verbs (bring up, put off), phrasal-prepositional verbs (catch up on, come up with) [...] duratives, sentence adverbs, and so on.

  2. A phrase, consisting of a verb with a preposition and/or adverb, that has idiomatic…

    A phrase, consisting of a verb with a preposition and/or adverb, that has idiomatic meaning.

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