List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'R'
Showing 27 Verbs, 77 Phrasal Verbs
Rack (1)Rack up
- Acquire a lot of something
Rain (1)Rain down on
- Fall in large numbers
Rake (2)Rake it in
- Make a lot of money
Rake up
- Bring something back to people's attention
Ramp (1)Ramp up
- Increase price, speed or power of something
Rat (3)Rat on
- Inform authorities about someone's wrongdoings
- Fail to keep a promise
Rat out
- Inform the authorities about someone
Rat through
- Look for something hurriedly
Ratchet (1)Ratchet up
- Increase
Rattle (1)Rattle off
- Quote figures rapidly
Reach (3)Reach out
- Stretch your arm to get something
Reach out for
- Try to achieve something difficult
Reach out to
- Ask for help
- Offer help
- Try to communicate and establish good relations with people
Read (3)Read off
- Read a list aloud for someone to write down
Read out
- Read aloud rather than silently
Read up on
- Research
Reckon (1)Reckon on
- The minimum expected
Reel (3)Reel in
- Catch a fish on a line and pull the line to land
- Attract people, especially customers, to get them to do what you want them to
Reel off
- Quote statistics or facts rapidly
- Score a lot of points or win a lot of games one after the other
Reel out
- Unwind
Rein (1)Rein in
- Control someone or something to stop them causing more trouble
Ride (4)Ride off
- Go away on a bike, horse, etc
Ride on
- Depend on
Ride out
- Survive a difficult time
Ride up
- Move higher on the body (of clothes)
Ring (3)Ring back
- Return a phonecall
Ring off
- Finish a phone conversation
Ring up
- Telephone
Rip (1)Rip off
- Charge excessively or obtain money unfairly
Roll (7)Roll back
- Retreat
- Reduce or remove
Roll in
- Arrive somewhere, especially if late
- Arrive in large numbers, for military vehicles
Roll on
- When something continues to happen
Roll on!
- Said when you can't wait for something nice in the future
Roll out
- Launch or introduce a new product, initiative, etc.
Roll up
- To appear in large numbers for an event
Roll up!
- An imperative used to attract people to a public event
Romp (2)Romp in
- Win easily
Romp through
- Do something easily or quickly
Room (1)Room in
- To keep a mother and baby together after the birth
Root (5)Root about
- Look in a place to try to find something
Root around
- Look in a place to try to find something
Root for
- Support
Root out
- Look for and find
- Find the source of a problem and remove it
Root up
- Dig a plant out of the ground
Rope (1)Rope in
- Get somebody to help
Rough (1)Rough up
- Assault
Round (1)Round off
- Finish something in a satisfactory manner
Row (1)Row back
- Retreat from a position
Rub (8)Rub along
- Have a reasonably good relationship
Rub down
- Dry or clean something with a cloth
- Massage or rub someone to help them relax
Rub in
- Apply a substance like cream or ointment and rub it until it is absorbed
Rub it in
- Emphasise how bad a situation is to make someone feel worse
Rub off on
- Pass a quality or characteristic to people
Rub out
- Delete ink or pencil with an eraser
- Kill
Rub up against
- Touch someone in a sensual or sexual way
Rub up on
- Revise
Rule (1)Rule out
- Exclude a possibility
Run (19)Run across
- Meet or find accidentally
Run after
- Chase, pursue
- Try to become romantically involved with someone
Run against
- Oppose, make difficulties
Run along
- Go away, leave (often as an imperative)
Run away
- Escape from people chasing you
- Leave home because of problems with other family members or to elope
Run down
- Hit a pedestrian with a vehicle
- Lose energy or power
- Criticise, disparage
- Find the source or origin of something
Run for
- Campaign for a position
Run in
- Arrest, take to police station for questioning
- Drive a new car carefully in order not to damage the engine
- Pay a casual visit
- Insert
Run into
- Cost
- Meet by accident
Run off
- Make photocopies
Run on
- Be powered by
Run out of
- Have none left
Run over
- Explain quickly
- Hit with a vehicle
- Exceed a time limit
Run through
- Practise a dramatic work like a play quickly
- Stab or wound deeply with a knife, sword, etc.
Run to
- Go to someone for help
- Include in things you like
- Have enough money to buy something, often negative
Run up
- Move quickly to where someone is
- Hoist, raise a flag
- Do or make something very quickly
- Spend a lot of money on credit
Run up against
- Encounter problems, often unexpected
Run up on
- Approach someone without their knowing
Run with
- Keep company, normally bad
Rush (1)Rush into
- Do something too quickly
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