List of Transitive Phrasal Verbs – Separable
- back up (take action in order to support something; establish as valid)
- blow up (explode)
- break down (divide or separate into categories or smaller components)
- break off 1 (separate apart – or become separate from a larger whole)
- break off 2 (put an end to something, for instance discussions, negotiations)
- bring about (cause something to emerge or happen, especially felicitous)
- bring down (cause somebody or something to move downward or fall; reduce the amount, level or rate of something)
- bring out (make a certain detail, feature, quality more noticeable than it usually is; make something or somebody available for the public or an audience)
- bring up 1 (mention a topic, raising for consideration or discussion)
- bring up 2 (raise children)
- call off (cancel)
- carry out (perform or complete, for instance activity, duty, study, task; implement, put into execution)
- close down (stop functioning)
- cut off (remove by cutting; end the provision; interrupt somebody while they are speaking)
- do over (repeat)
- figure out (come to understand, determine something)
- fill in (put material or substance into something, in order to replenish or complete it)
- fill out (complete a form or official document)
- fill up (fill to capacity)
- find out (discover; get knowledge of something)
- give away (give to someone else for free)
- give back (return something)
- give out (give to each of a number of people; make known openly or publicly)
- give up (stop doing or having something; abandon, for instance activity, belief, possession)
- hold back (prevent somebody or something from going somewhere; prevent somebody or something from reaching their full potential; contain a physical manifestation)
- hand in (submit something, for instance an assignment)
- hand over (give something to somebody by holding it in one hand; surrender control or responsibility for something or somebody to someone else)
- hang up (put something on hook or receiver)
- hold out (move one’s hand or an object in one’s hand towards somebody, so as either to give or grab something)
- hold up 1 (delay)
- lay down (put something away, because no longer useful; lie flat on a surface, usually to rest; lay the foundations, establish)
- lay out (spread something out on a flat surface; describe or explain something in detail, especially in official style)
- leave out (omit)
- look over (examine, check)
- make out (hear, understand)
- look up (search something on a list)
- make out (perceive with difficulty; represent as being in a certain way, especially falsely)
- make up (form the whole of; invent, concoct)
- pass on (circulate or communicate; transmit from one generation to the next)
- pay off (pay the complete amount of something)
- pick out (choose; detect or be noticed among a group of people or things)
- pick up (get somebody/something from a place, lift something off someone else)
- point out (call attention to, for instance idea, information, fact)
- pull up (lift from the ground; cause vehicle to stop)
- pull back (move backwards or make somebody or something move backwards)
- put away (save, store)
- put in 1 (put something inside something else, insert, include)
- put in 2 (devote or invest in order to achieve something)
- put off 1 (delay, postpone)
- put off 2 (cause to feel strong dislike)
- put on 1 (put clothing, jewellery on one’s body)
- put on 2 (stage or present, for instance a play, show)
- put out 1 (extinguish)
- put out 2 (make something known or accessible to the public)
- rule out (exclude something as a cause, explanation or possibility)
- set out (present something clearly, especially in writing, in formal style)
- shut down (stop or make something stop working)
- read over (peruse)
- send out (distribute or disseminate to a number of people; send to a place for a certain purpose)
- set off (cause, especially by accident, something to explode or to start, for instance an alarm; unwittingly make something emerge or happen)
- sort out (take the necessary actions to solve a conflict or problem; find out information relevant to one’s understanding)
- set up (establish, create something; place something in a particular spot or position)
- sum up (represent the essential, for instance the most representative features, facts, especially briefly)
- take back (take somebody or something to a place or time they were in before; regain control over or possession of something)
- take down (make a written note; disable, destroy, kill; take somebody to a place, especially southwards or at a lower level)
- take in (provide a place for somebody to live or stay; fully understand the meaning of something; deceive by behaving dishonestly)
- take off (remove something, for instance clothing, jewellery)
- take over (gain control or possession of something or somebody)
- talk over (discuss)
- throw out (put something in a rubbish bin; refuse to accept or consider; expel, make somebody leave an activity, organization or place, forcibly and unexpectedly)
- throw away (discard)
- try on (wear clothes, jewellery to see whether they fit or look good)
- try out (test)
- turn around (make something better or more successful)
- turn down 1 (lower sound volume)
- turn down 2 (dismiss, refuse, reject)
- turn up (raise sound volume)
- turn off 1 (stop a piece of equipment working temporarily or a supply flowing, by turning a tap, pressing a button, or moving a switch)
- turn off 2 (repulse, cause to feel strong dislike)
- turn over (surrender possession or control to somebody or something, especially in authority)
- turn on (switch on the electricity)
- turn up1 (yield; be found)
- turn up 2 (increase the volume or level of something)
- use up (exhaust)
- write down (record information on paper)
- work out (devise, plan, think about something carefully and thoroughly)
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