Phrasal Verbs/C

If you call someone back, you return their telephone call.

If a person or an organisation calls for something, they state in public that it's needed, or should be done.

to cancel an event that was planned or scheduled

to visit someone for a short time

If you call out, you use a loud voice to tell something to someone who's far away, or tell something to a large group.

If a person who is excited or agitated calms down, they become calmer and less excited or agitated.

If you care for someone, you like them a lot and have a strong affection for them.

If you care for someone or something, you look after them and make sure they have what they need.

If you ask someone if they would care for something, you want to know if they'd like to have something.

to continue doing something

If you carry out a task or a piece of work, you do whatever is needed to complete it.

If something catches on, it becomes popular.

If you catch on, you suddenly understand something that you couldn't understand at first.

If you catch up with someone who is ahead of you, you go faster than them until you reach them.

If two people meet again after a while and catch up, they tell each other what they've been doing.

to provide people with what they need

to change from one state or form into another

to stop using one thing or one system and start using another one instead

If someone is charged with a crime, they are officially accused of committing it.

to try to find out what is being done about something, or what has happened to something

to talk to someone in the hope of beginning a romantic relationship with them

to be disloyal to your spouse or partner by having sex with someone else

to get something from somebody by cheating them

If you check in, you give your details at a hotel's reception desk, or at an airline's check-in counter, when you arrive.

to register your details after arriving for treatment at a hospital, a rehabilitation centre or a health resort

to look at someone or something to make sure that nothing is wrong

to pay the bill and leave after staying at a hotel, a hospital or a rehabilitation centre

to look at something, or go somewhere, to see what it's like

to examine something carefully to make sure nothing is wrong, or to look for something

to shout loudly to encourage someone, especially someone who's playing sport or competing in a race

to feel happier after being sad

If you chop down something like a tree, you cause it to fall by cutting through its base.

to cut something into pieces with an axe or a knife

to clean the inside of something

If you have been cleaned out, all your money has been taken by someone, or spent on something.

to make something clean and tidy

to tidy a place by removing things that shouldn't be there

to leave a place, usually for a long time or forever

If an illness or a condition like acne clears up, it improves until it's no longer a problem.

If a business closes down, or if someone closes it down, it stops operating.

to happen, especially partly or totally by chance

to find something or meet someone by chance

If somebody comes across as being a certain type of person, they appear that way to other people.

to arrive or to appear

to make progress or to improve in some way

to go with somebody when they're going somewhere

to separate into several pieces, or to break into several parts

to visit somebody, usually at their home

to return to a place

to move to a lower level or a lower position

to be born and raised in a place

to be made in or obtained from a particular place or thing

to enter a room or a building

If something like a train or plane comes in, it arrives at a station or an airport.

to be given something after its owner dies

to be the result of an event or situation

If something comes off, it becomes separated from the thing it's usually attached to.

to result in the intended outcome

to make progress or to improve in some way

If a light or a computer comes on, it starts working.

If a TV or radio show comes on, it starts.

to become available

to become known

to visit a place, or to move from one place or country to another

to seem to be a particular type of person

to survive a difficult or dangerous situation or time

to regain consciousness after an accident or an operation

to add up to a particular total

If a thought or an idea comes to you, you remember it or you think of it

to suddenly experience or suffer something dangerous or unpleasant

to walk up to someone or something

If an issue or a name comes up in something like a conversation, a meeting, or a report, the issue or name is discussed or mentioned.

to appear, occur, or become available

to face a difficult situation or a difficult opponent

to think of something like a plan, an idea or a solution to a problem

to depend on someone or something to do what is expected or needed

to try to stop people finding out about something bad

to start enforcing a law or a rule more strictly

to remove a name or an item from a list by drawing a line through it

If you cross something out, you draw a line through it with a pen or a pencil, usually because it's wrong or is no longer necessary.

to scream or yell because of pain or fear

to reduce the amount of money spent on something, or to reduce the size or scale of something

to reduce the amount, number or size of something

to stop the supply of something like electricity, water, gas or telephone service.

to isolate somebody or something by making transport or communication very difficult or impossible

to remove an area of paper or cloth from a larger sheet by cutting

to stop doing something, such as eating fatty foods or gambling or taking drugs, usually in order to improve one's health or one's life

If you tell someone to "Cut it out!", you want them to stop doing something annoying.

to cut something into small pieces