Phrasal verbs consists of a verb plus a particle that may be a preposition or an adverb. In some cases, they may even contain more than two words.
They are important because englihs speakers use phrasal verbs all the time. Phrasal verbs are extremely common in conversations and that makes then essential to mastering the language so if we want to sound native, we need to learn them. They will help you to express yourself far better. That’s simply because sometimes using a phrasal verb is the only way to express an idea.
Some advantages of using phrasal verbs are:
- You are understanding English converstation more easily
- You will sound more natural when speaking in English
- Your will learn how English is actually spoken.
- Using them correctly shows a good knowledge and understanding
- You sound less formal when you speak English.
La lista de 70 phrasal verbs para C1
Here is the best 70 phrasal verbs for C1 level. There we go!
| VERBS | MEANING | MEANING AND EXAMPLES |
| Be about something | To explain , describe or give facts | What is the story about? |
| Be about to do something | To be ready to start to do something | I thought my boyfriend was about to propose marriage but he broke-up with me instead. |
| Be against someone or something | To disagree or not support someone | His parents were completely against the idea. |
| Be up for | be eager | I might be up for going out later if you fancy it. |
| Be into something | Enjoy / like | He is into football. |
| Be dying for | to want something very much | I’m dying to hear your news. |
| Be over | To have finished | When will the rain be over? |
| Be up ti | To be doing something wrong or bad | What are the children up to at the momento? I can’t hear them. |
| Block off | Obstract | I’ll knock his block off if he tries anything with me! |
| Call on | To visit someone as a routine , ask someone to do something | I had intended to callo n Jack. I’ll call on him tomorrow. |
| Call after | Be named after somebody | He is called after his gandfather. |
| Clear away | To leave a plalce, remove or tidy | They had a long talk and were able to clear away all their misunderstandings. |
| Come across as someone | To seem to be a particular kind of person | |
| Come down with something | To become ill with a particular infection | I have come down with a bad viral fever. |
| Come through something | To survive a difficult event or period. | We were worried she wouldn’t be able to handle it, but she came through in the end. |
| Come up against something | To have to deal with difficulty | If you come up against difficulties, let me know and I’ll help out |
| Cut down on | To use much les of something | I’m trying to cut down on the amount of sugar I eat. |
| Cut through | To be able to deal with a problem or bureaucracy | We need to cut through the political rhetoric and see what really lies behind the policy. |
| Fall for someone | To feel strong romantic feelings | I think Charlie has fallen for Jenny. He is always trying to find reasons to be with her. |
| Fall out ( with ) ( over) | To have quarrel and end a relationship, go crazy | She’d fallen out with her boyfriend over his ex-girlfriend |
| Freak out | Go crazy | I think our music freaks people out sometimes |
| Get (something) across ( to) | To be successful explaining your idea, plan, etc | We tried to get our point across, but he just wouldn’t listen. |
| Get round to doing something | To do something you have planned or wanted to do | I meant to do the ironing but I didn’t get round to it. |
| Get away with something | To not be punished for doing something bad or wrong | If I thought I could get away with it, I wouldn’t pay my taxes at all. |
| Get your own back on someone | To take a revenge | I’ll get my own back on her one day |
| Get someone into a trouble (with) | To do something that makes yourself deserve punishment. | Even an experienced climber can get into trouble. |
| Go down with something | To start suffering from an infectious disease | Half of Valeria’s class has gone down with flu. |
| Go off something or someone | To stop liking or being interested in something or someone. | I went off beefburgers after I got food poisoning from a takeaway |
| Go through with something | To do something unpleasant or difficult | He was always threatening to quit his job, but I never thought he’d actually go through with it |
| Hold back | Prevent from progressing or moving forward | He didn’t hold back about how he felt about police harassment and fame. |
| Hold off | Prevent someone from attacking or beating you | She decided to hold off on her vacation for a while longer |
| Hold onto | Keep longer than necessary | Hold on and don’t let go until I say so |
| Hold up | Delay, especially when travelling | She got held up at work |
| Hold out for something | To wait for something better | The workers are holding out for higher pay. |
| Jump on | Attack verbally, to criticise excessively | The teacher jumped on us for being late. |
| Keep at | To continue with something difficult | The project was difficult, but we kept at it and eventually it was done. |
| Keep away from | To deny Access to | You should keep away from fried foods |
| Keep to oneself | To be introverted | One of my neighbors keeps to himself but everyone else on our street is really friendly. |
| Kick off | Be overcome with anger | When she called him a drunk, it was the last straw. He just kicked off |
| Knuckle down | concentrate on something | If I were you , I’d knuckle down and get some studying done before the end of the day. |
| Lay off | Fire and sack | In the case of a layoff, the loss of employment is usually through no fault of the employee |
| Live down | Get used to something shameful | It will be difficult to live down this humiliation. |
| Live through | Survive a difficult period or event | She can’t live through her daughter. |
| Let down | Disappoint someone | «You are coming to the party – you won’t let me down, will you? |
| Look around | Inspect an area | I’m interested in buying that house. Can we wlook aroung |
| Look ahead | Consider the future | We are trying to look ahead and see what our options are. |
| Look down on | Regard someone with a feeling of superiority | The other children looked down on her because her parents were poor |
| Make away with | Steal | he smashed a glass case and made away with a number of items of jewellery |
| Pass away | Die | His mother passed away last year |
| Pick up after | Tidy a mess someone else has made | His mother still picks up after him |
| Pick up | To begin to understand | She managed to pick up with the content. |
| Put aside | Ignore or intentionally disregard | They decided to put aside their differences |
| Put forward | Propose a consideration | I wasn’t convinced by any of the arguments that he put forward. |
| Put up with | Tolerate | I’m not going to put up with their smoking any longer. |
| Run someone down | Criticize someone | He last night denounced the British ‘genius for running ourselves down |
| Send away | Dismiss from one’s presence | We send the children away to camp every summer |
| Set off | Beging a journey or trip | What time will we have to set off for Grandma’s house tomorrow? |
| Set up | Establish a business | He invested money in a business set up to help young musicians. |
| Stand up for: | Speak or act in support or defense | «you need to have hard evidence that will stand up in court |
| Spring up | Appear suddenly | She feels as if each time she solves one problem, two more spring up to take its place. |
| Take off | Become more successful | Her singing career had just begun to take off. More examples. |
| Take pity | Feel sorry | He took pity on the street dog |
| Throw up | Vomit | I spent all night throwing up as he had eateaten too much the previous nitht |
| Think ahead | Plan for a future situatio | I wish I had thought ahead and packed some food to bring with us. |
| Think through | Consider all the possible possibilities | We have thought through the matter and have come to a decision. |
| Walk away from | Abandon | She was strong and stubborn enough to walk away from him |
| Work somebody out | Understand her behaviour | We have our disagreements, but we always work them out. |
| Watch over | Regard and protect | I’ll watch over your brother tonight |
| Wear out | exhaust | I wore out the dog when I went for a run. |
| Wind up | Annoy | Instead of winding up your mother like that, perhaps you should help her. |
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