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- Multi-part verbs (Upper)
- take over- to assume management or possession of or responsibility for: The first officer took over the ship when the captain suffered a heart attack
- walk out
- to go on strike.
- to leave in protest: to walk out of a committee meeting
- get across
- to make or become understandable; communicate: to get a lesson across to students.
- to be convincing about; impress upon others: The fire chief got across forcefully the fact that turning in a false alarm is a serious offense.
- get out
- to leave (often followed by of ): Get out of here! We had toget out of the bus at San Antonio.
- to become publicly known: We mustn't let this story get out.
- to withdraw or retire (often followed by of ): He decided toget out of the dry goods business.
- to produce or complete: Let's get this work out!
- get on/along
- to make progress; proceed; advance.
- to have sufficient means to manage, survive, or fare.
- to be on good terms; agree: She simply can't get on with herbrothers.
- to advance in age: He is getting on in years.
- make out
- to write out or complete, as a bill or check.
- to establish; prove.
- to decipher; discern.
- to imply, suggest, or impute: He made me out to be a liar.
- to manage; succeed: How are you making out in your newjob?
- Slang. to engage in kissing and caressing; neck.
- Slang. to have sexual intercourse.
- to turn off or extinguish(especially a light or fire): Make the light out.
- make up
- (of parts) to constitute; compose; form.
- to put together; construct; compile.
- to concoct; invent.
- Also, make up for. to compensate for; make good.
- to complete.
- to put in order; arrange: The maid will make up the room.
- to conclude; decide.
- to settle amicably, as differences.
- to become reconciled, as after a quarrel.
- to arrange set type, illustrations, etc., into columnsor pages.
- to dress in appropriate costume and apply cosmetics for apart on the stage.
- to apply cosmetics.
- to adjust or balance, as accounts; prepare, as statements.
- to repeat (a course or examination that one has failed).
- to take an examination that one had been unable to take when first given, usually because of absence.
- to specify and indicate the layout or arrangement of(columns, pages, etc., of matter to be printed).
- (weather or clouds) to develop or gather: It's making up for a storm.
- (the sea) to become turbulent: If the sea makes up, row toward land.
- come out
- to be published; appear.
- to become known; be revealed.
- to make a debut in society, the theatre, etc.
- to end; terminate; emerge: The fight came out badly, as both combatants were injured.
- to make more or less public acknowledgment of being homosexual.
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