Some pairs of phrasal verbs with different meanings 2A
This exercise uses the same set of phrasal verbs as in 1A / 1B, but here the verbs mean something different.
1. [Match]
See if you can match the phrasal verb with its meaning!
Answers for Quiz [1].
- 1. arrive, come (correct)
- 2. lose power, stop / cause to lose power or stop functioning; become unwound (correct)
- 3. expire; be finished (correct)
- 4. succeed, be successful (correct)
- 5. supply, provide (correct)
- 6. start suddenly (correct)
- 7. meet by chance (correct)
- 8. devise, plan (correct)
- 9. get into the habit of (correct)
- 10. spend completely, waste, squander (correct)
- 11. impose, prescribe (correct)
- 12. reach in total, amount to (correct)