English Phrasal Verb Dictionary

List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'T'

Tack (2)

Tack on

- Add something that wasn't planned

Tack onto

- Add or attach something that wasn't planned to something

Tag (4)

Tag along

- Accompany someone, especially if they haven't specifically invited you

Tag on

- Add an additional point to something written or spoken

Tag onto

- Add an additional point to something written or spoken

Tag with

- Add a keyword link or bookmark to a blog entry or webpage

Tail (3)

Tail away

- Become silent or inaudible

Tail back

- Form a traffic jam

Tail off

- Become silent or inaudible
- Decrease

Take (16)

Take after

- Look like, resemble

Take apart

- Take something to pieces

Take aside

- Get someone alone to talk to them

Take away

- Remove

Take back

- Make someone nostalgic
- Retract a statement, admit that something was wrong

Take down

- Make notes or write down in full
- Remove

Take in

- Absorb information
- Deceive
- Make clothes smaller

Take it

- Accept criticism

Take it out on

- Abuse someone because you're angry

Take it upon yourself

- Take responsibility, often without consulting other people

Take off

- Make great progress
- Reduce the price of an item
- When a plane departs or leaves the ground
- Remove

Take on

- Allow passengers on a ship or plane
- Assume a responsibility
- Employ

Take out

- Borrow a library book
- Borrow money from a bank or other official lender
- Extract or remove
- Go out socially with someone, especially a date
- Obtain insurance
- Kill, murder

Take over

- Assume control of a company or organisation

Take to

- Make a habit of something

Take up

- Fill or occupy time or space
- Make clothes shorter
- Start a new hobby, pastime, etc.

Talk (8)

Talk back

- Respond rudely to a person in authority

Talk down

- Try to make something sound less important

Talk down to

- Talk in a way to show your superiority not communicate

Talk into

- Persuade someone to do something

Talk out of

- Persuade someone not to do something

Talk over

- Discuss

Talk through

- Guide someone through an issue

Talk up

- Make something appear more important or significant than it really is

Tap (5)

Tap for

- Get money off someone

Tap into

- Use or exploit a plentiful resource for your benefit

Tap off with

- Have sex with

Tap out

- Play a rhythm quietly

Tap up

- Approach a footballer illegally to get them to change teams

Tear (7)

Tear apart

- Disturb or upset greatly

Tear at

- Pull or try to pull something to pieces

Tear away

- Stop someone doing something unwillingly
- Remove a surface violently

Tear down

- Demolish

Tear into

- Criticise strongly or angrily

Tear off

- Remove part of a form or letter using your hands, not scissors
- Leave at high speed
- Remove with force

Tear up

- Rip into pieces
- Destroy

Tee (3)

Tee off

- Start or launch an event
- Place a golf ball on a short plastic or wooden stick before hitting it at the start of a hole.
- Annoy someone

Tee off on

- Criticise

Tee up

- Place a golf ball on a short plastic or wooden stick before hitting it at the start of a hole.
- Make preparations before starting or launching something

Tell (3)

Tell apart

- See a difference between two things

Tell off

- Chide; talk angrily to someone about something they've done wrong.

Tell on

- Report someone to an authority

Think (3)

Think over

- Consider something carefully

Think through

- Consider all the possibilities and outcomes of a situation

Think up

- Create or invent something, especially when lying

Throw (3)

Throw away

- Discard something when no longer needed

Throw out

- Get rid of

Throw up

- Vomit

Tick (4)

Tick away

- Pass (of time)

Tick by

- Pass (of time)

Tick off

- Annoy
- Scold
- Put a mark on an item in a list when it has been dealt with

Tick over

- Continue working, but without improving
- Operate but without moving (engines)

Tide (1)

Tide over

- Use something carefully so as not to finish it

Tidy (1)

Tidy up

- Put things in the correct place in a room

Tie (5)

Tie back

- Fasten or secure so that it doesn't obstruct

Tie down

- Secure something to prevent it moving
- Remove or restrict freedom
- Stop people (often police or military) going where they are needed

Tie in

- Agree, be connected or support

Tie in with

- Occur at the same time

Tie up

- Tie or fasten something securely
- Stop someone doing something
- Fasten
- Block a road, etc

Tighten (1)

Tighten up

- Make something more secure or function better

Tip (2)

Tip off

- Secretly inform the police or authorities

Tip over

- Spill, make something fall on its side

Tire (2)

Tire of

- Get bored of something

Tire out

- Make someone exhausted

Toddle (1)

Toddle off

- Leave, go home

Tone (1)

Tone down

- Make something sound more moderate

Tool (1)

Tool up

- Provide equipment
- Arm yourself or somebody

Top (3)

Top off

- Finish something in a special way

Top out

- Stop increasing, reach the highest point

Top up

- Refill something that isn't empty yet

Touch (6)

Touch down

- Land (planes)

Touch for

- Borrow money

Touch off

- Cause a problem to occur

Touch on

- Mention

Touch up

- Improve the appearance of something
- Touch someone in a sexual way

Touch upon

- Mention

Toy (3)

Toy at

- Pretend to think about or think about in a casual way

Toy over

- Think about something

Toy with

- Not eat much of a meal
- Consider something, but not very seriously
- Move or play with something to occupy your hands

Track (1)

Track down

- Find after a long search

Trade (6)

Trade down

- Sell something and replace it with something cheaper

Trade in

- Exchange something old as part of the price of something new
- Leave your wife or husband to marry someone younger

Trade off

- Bargain, make a deal or compromise
- Accept something you don't really want to get something you do want

Trade on

- Exploit, use something to your advantage

Trade up

- Buy larger or more expensive items
- Leave your wife or husband and marry someone better looking, richer, etc

Trade upon

- Exploit, use to your advantage

Trickle (1)

Trickle down

- Pass benefits from economic expansion through the economy to the less fortunate

Trip (2)

Trip over

- Fall
- Fall because you hit an obstacle

Trip up

- Make a mistake

Trot (1)

Trot out

- Make a statement (meant negatively)

Trump (1)

Trump up

- Charge or accuse someone falsely

Try (6)

Try back

- Phone back

Try for

- Make an attempt to get something

Try it on

- Provoke someone by being annoying or behaving badly
- Attempt to get something, usually by deceit, without great hopes of success

Try on

- Put clothes on to see if they fit

Try out

- Test
- Test something to see if you like it or want to buy it

Try out for

- Be tested for a sports team

Tuck (4)

Tuck away

- Put something in a safe place
- Eat a lot

Tuck in

- Tidy the ends of items of clothing by placing them inside something
- Start eating enthusiastically
- Arrange the sheets, duvet or blankets to make someone, usually a child, comfortable in bed

Tuck into

- Start eating something

Tuck up

- Arrange the sheets, duvet or blankets to make someone, usually a child, comfortable in bed

Tune (4)

Tune in

- Watch or listen to a TV or radio show

Tune in to

- Watch or listen to a TV or radio programme

Tune out

- Ignore, not pay attention

Tune up

- Improve the performance of a machine or engine
- Tune a musical instrument before playing

Turn (11)

Turn against

- Stop liking and start disliking

Turn away

- Not allow someone to enter a place

Turn down

- Reduce volume, temperature, etc.
- Reject an offer, invitation, etc.

Turn in

- Go to bed

Turn into

- Become

Turn off

- Stop a machine

Turn on

- Cause someone to feel attraction or pleasure
- Start a machine
- Attack

Turn out

- Produce
- Produce an unexpected result
- Stop a light
- Attend

Turn over

- Give to the authorities

Turn to

- Try to get help
- Take up a habit

Turn up

- Appear
- Increase volume, temperature, etc.

Type (1)

Type up

- Type a finished version