Phrasal Verbs (C-F)

             Phrasal Verbs (C-F)

1. Call at (visit a place ) : I shall call at your home next week.

2. Call by (pay a short visit): They have called by a Zoo today. 

3. Call for (demand): People called for Justice in this case.

4. Call forth (elicit): His honesty calls forth people's respect for him.

5. Call in (invite): Please call in a doctor.

6. Call off (cancel): The wedding has been called off as the couple was not compatible. 

7. Call on (visit a person): He called on me for a discussion.

8. Call out ( summon): The Manager called him out for his treachery.

9. Call upon(appeal, exhort): He was called upon to prove the correctness of the press reports. 

10. Call up( remember): I can not call up birth dates of my friends. 

11. Carry away by (lose control): On hearing the news of his marriage he was carried away by joy. 

12. Carried off : i) (own) : She carried off all the prizes in sports.

ii)(take life of): Covid has carried off many men and women. 

13. Carry on (continue): One should carry on one's hobbies.

14. Carry out(execute): The students of our school always carry out what the teachers say. 

15. Cast about for ( looking for): The thief was casting about for an opportunity to escape.

16. Cast aside/away/off (reject): He has cast aside his bad old habits. 

17. Cast down (depressed): One should never cast down in failure. 

18. Come about (happen) : He was responsible for the meeting to come about between the government and the opposition 

19. Come across (meet): I came across her last time in a train.

20. Come after (hunt down/chase): The police came after the thief. 

21. Come at (attack): The enemy came at him with a sharp knife.

22. Come away (become detached): The handle of the chair came away.

23. Come by ( to obtain/ to get) : How did you come by the precious gold ring ? 

24. Come down: i) ( collapse): The roof came down all of a sudden.

ii) (reduce): The price of the daily commodities come down after the budget.

25. Come in for (receive):  He came in for the award for her dance performance. 

26. Come of (belong to) :Reeta comes of a family of freedom fighters.

27. Come off  (fade, get separated): I was surprised to see that plaster had come off the walls.

28. Come over (get over, overcome): You can come over your problems by honest means.

29. Come out (become exposed): The secret came out at last.

30. Come round (agree, recover from illness): My father at first refused to let me continue study but he came round in the end.

31 Come upon (come across, get by chance): My friend came upon the evidence just by chance.

32. Come through (arrive): The train came through the station before time.

33. Cope with (manage): They coped with all their problems cheerfully.

34. Cry down (decry): We should not cry down our enemy.

35. Cry off (abandon): The cried off girl child was rescued and adopted by the couple. 

36. Cry to (beg): The beggars cried to the man for food. 

37. Cry up (extol): He cried up his achievements. 

38. Cut down (curtail, reduce):  Since you are out of job these days, you must cut down your expenditure.

39. Cut in ( to take part suddenly): He cut in the middle of our discussion. 

40. Cut off:i) (separate): His smartness cuts him off from others 

ii) (die): The soldiers cut off at an early stage for our country. 

41. Cut out for (suitable) : She is cut out for this job. 

42. Cut out (to take a piece from the whole): He cut out a piece of the cake and put it in my plate.

43. Cut up (distressed, cut into small pieces): She was cut up because she had been scolded by her teacher.

44. Cut back :(use less of something): You should cut back on the amount of coffee that you drink. 

45. Catch up with (make up for deficiency, overtake): He remained ill for many days but caught up with the pending work very soon.

45.Catch on (develop understanding or knowledge of something) : Bholu had caught on computer very quickly.

46. Calm down (become calm/less agitated or upset; help someone become calm/ less agitated or upset) : You should calm down and stop being angry. 

47. Care for (take care of; supply care to; attend/watch) : Ann is caring for her father at home.

48. Check in (to) (register for/at a hotel, conference, etc; let someone know officially that you have arrived): I have asked all the guests to check in at the registration desk.

49.Check off : (make a mark to indicate that something on a list has been completed): Here are the things you need to check off when you’ve finished it.

50.Check out (of) : (follow procedures for leaving a hotel etc.) : Don’t forget to check out of the hotel at the mentioned time.

51.Cheer up : (help someone feel less worried/ depressed/sad) :She sent her brother a funny card to cheer him up.

52. Chew out : (scold someone severely; berate) : Golu’s father chewed him out for being late.

53. Chicken out : (lose the courage or confidence to do something-often at the last minute): Rahul decided to ¹convince his father for his job abroad but he chickened out.

54. Chip in : (contribute/donate (often money) to something done by a group] : We are chipping in money to organize a birthday party for the orphan children. 

55. Clam up : (suddenly become quiet/refuse to talk about something) : Lila clammed up as she did not like to talk about the accident.