Phrasal Verb


Phrasal verbs are compound verbs that result from combining a verb with an adverb or a preposition. The resulting compound verb is idiomatic.


Phrasal Verb:
wear someone down

Meaning / Example:

1. to exhaust someone.
> This hot weather wears me down.
> The steamy weather wore down the tourists and made them stay in their hotels.

2. to reduce someone to submission or agreement by constant badgering.
> Finally they wore me down and I told them what they wanted to know.


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A group of words which have a different meaning when used together from the one they would have if you took the meaning of each word separately.

A compilation of 50 phrasal verbs.
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