1000 Phrasal Verbs In Context

1000 Phrasal Verbs In Context © Matt Errey 2007

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wait around

Doctors sometimes get behind schedule and their patients have to wait

around for a long time before seeing them.

wait around

wait around for sth/sb

Our flight was delayed, so
we had to wait around in
the airport for hours.

✍  see also:^ hang around, sit

around

wait on
One of the staff waiting on guests at the presidential dinner spilled wine
on the president’s wife. He lost his job.

wait on sb

The CEO has a personal
assistant who waits on
him ‘hand and foot’.

✍ ^

wait up

I’ll be working late tonight and I’m not sure what time I’ll be getting

home, so don’t wait up for me. Just go to bed at the usual time.

wait up

wait up for sb

She waited up most of the

night for her teenage

daughter to come home.

✍  see also:^ stay up^

wake up
If Bobby’s still asleep at 7 o’clock, could you wake him up and make
sure he gets up? He’s got to catch the bus at 8.15.

wake up
wake sb up
wake up sb
Neil fell asleep in the
seminar so I poked him in
the ribs and he woke up.

✍ ^

walk out
He didn’t try to work on the problems he had in his marriage. He just
walked out on his family and never came back.

walk out
walk out on sb
walk out of sth
She walked out when her
husband beat her, and
she’s never been back.

✍  see also:^ run out on^

ward off
The economic recession destroyed many companies, and many others
had to ward the effects off by reducing costs and limiting expenditure.

ward sth off

ward off sth

Many people believe that
vitamin C can ward off
the common cold.

✍  see also:^ fend off, fight

off

warm up
His wife left some food in the oven for him to warm up when he got
home.

warm up
warm sth/sb up
warm up sth/sb
It’s freezing at night in the
desert, but it warms up
when the sun comes up.

✍  see also:^ heat up^

warm up
Before the game, the players warmed up by jogging and doing some
stretching exercises.

warm up

The choir did some vocal
exercises to warm up
before the concert.

✍ ^

wash away
Many houses were washed away by the huge tsunami waves that
followed an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in 2004.

(be) washed away
wash away sth
wash sth away
The river flooded and the
water washed away many
roads and bridges.

✍ ^

wash down
We had a delicious salmon steak with salad and washed it down with a
good white wine.

wash sth down

wash down sth

Would you mind getting
me a glass of water to
wash down these pills?

✍ ^