Phrasal Verb


Phrasal verbs are two or more words that come together to give us a new verb with a different meaning from the original words.


Phrasal Verb:
mess around and mess about

Meaning / Example:

1. to waste time; to do something ineffectually.
> Stop messing around and get busy.
> I wish you wouldn't mess about so much. You waste a lot of time that way.

2. to play [with someone] sexually.
> Pete was messing around with Maria during the summer.


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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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