0 a phrase that consists of a verb with a preposition or adverb or both, the meaning of which is different from the meaning of its separate parts:
1 a combination of a verb and an adverb or a verb and a preposition, or both, in which the combination has a meaning different from the meaning of the words considered separately:
"Catch on" is a phrasal verb meaning to understand.
The phrasal verb 'heal up' is intransitive.
Some phrasal verbs consist of three words, such as 'look up to'.
She was puzzled and intrigued, because she had no idea what a phrasal verb might be.
There is a third complication that needs to be borne in mind when dealing with these expressions, and that is the term phrasal verb itself.
My own term for this usage has for some years been a fused or non-separable phrasal verb.
This method of indicating the collocates of a phrasal verb, then, has two advantages.
The collocates listed represent a wider range of nouns which could combine with the phrasal verb as its subject (we might, for example, have included date, time or details).
Nonetheless, the phrasal verb is as much a part of grammar and word-formation as the complex sentence, the compound word, the subordinate clause, or the prefix.
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