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phrasal verb

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phrasal verb
n.
An English verb complex consisting of a verb and one or more following particles and acting as a complete syntactic and semantic unit, as look up in She looked up the word in the dictionary or She looked the word up in the dictionary.
phrasal verb
n
(Linguistics / Grammar) (in English grammar) a phrase that consists of a verb plus an adverbial or prepositional particle, esp one the meaning of which cannot be deduced by analysis of the meaning of the constituents ``take in'' meaning ``deceive'' is a phrasal verb
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Noun1.phrasal verb - an English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit; "`turn out' is a phrasal verb in the question `how many turned out to vote?'"
verb - the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence
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phrasal verb
n → Phrasal Verb nt, Verb mit bestimmter Präposition oder bestimmtem Adverb


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