PHRASAL VERB


Meaning of PHRASAL VERB in English

Gram.

a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.

[ 1875-80 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .