1.
If you ~ a task or an amount of work, especially when it is difficult, you complete it.
I think you can ~ the first two chapters.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n
2.
If you ~ a difficult or unpleasant period of time, you manage to live through it.
It is hard to see how people will ~ the winter...
= survive
PHRASAL VERB: V P n
3.
If you ~ a large amount of something, you use it. (mainly BRIT)
You’ll ~ at least ten nappies a day.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n
4.
If you ~ to someone, you succeed in making them understand something that you are trying to tell them.
An old friend might well be able to ~ to her and help her...
The message was finally getting through to him.
PHRASAL VERB: V P to n, V P to n, also V P
5.
If you ~ to someone, you succeed in contacting them on the telephone.
Look, I can’t ~ to this number...
I’ve been trying to ring up all day and I couldn’t ~.
PHRASAL VERB: V P to n, V P
6.
If you ~ an examination or ~, you pass it. (mainly BRIT)
Did you have to ~ an entrance examination?
PHRASAL VERB: V P n, also V P
7.
If a law or proposal gets through, it is officially approved by something such as a parliament or committee.
...if his referendum law failed to ~...
Such a radical proposal would never ~ parliament.
= go through
PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P n