List of English Phrasal Verbs Beginning With 'W'
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Wade (3)Wade in
- Start something or get involved, often without thinking or to forcefully
- Attack
Wade into
- Become embroiled or involved in a situation, without thinking or planning usually
Wade through
- Get to the end of something with difficulty
Wait (9)Wait about
- Wait somewhere doing nothing
Wait around
- Wait somewhere doing nothing
Wait behind
- Stay somewhere after other people have left
Wait in
- Stay at home because someone is going to visit
Wait on
- Serve people in a restaurant
- Sell goods in a shop
- Provide someone with everything they need or want
- Wait for a result before being able to make a decision
Wait out
- Wait till something has finished, usually something unpleasant
Wait up
- Not go to bed because you are waiting
Wait up!
- Stop (imperative)
Wait upon
- Provide someone with what they require
- Wait for a result before being able to make a decision
Wake (1)Wake up
- Stop sleeping
Walk (10)Walk away from
- Leave something you don't like
Walk away with
- Win easily
Walk in on
- Enter somewhere unexpectedly and see something
Walk into
- Get work without effort
- Be unaware of the presence of something and either enter it (a trap) or bump into it (an obstruction)
Walk off
- Go for a walk to reduce the effects of an illness or bad feeling
Walk off with
- Win easily
- Take something without permission or steal
Walk on
- Continue walking
Walk out
- Leave work because of a dispute with the management
- Leave a place angrily or because you are not satisfied
Walk out on
- Leave somebody angrily
Walk up
- Go to someone
Want (1)Want out
- Want to leave a relationship or arrangement
Warm (1)Warm up
- Do exercises before a sport
Wash (5)Wash away
- When floods or waves completely remove a structure, building, etc.
Wash down
- Drink in order to swallow something solid
Wash out
- Rain so heavily that an event has to be cancelled
Wash over
- Suddenly experience a strong emotion
Wash up
- Clean everything used to prepare food and eat it
- When something in the sea or river is left on the shore or bank
Watch (3)Watch out
- Be careful (imperative)
Watch out for
- Be careful of something
Watch over
- Keep an eye on something or someone to check that there's no trouble
Water (1)Water down
- Make something weaker and less effective
Wean (1)Wean off
- Slowly stop a dependency on something
Wear (4)Wear away
- Erode, remove gradually
Wear down
- Make something weaker
Wear off
- Stop having an effect
Wear out
- Use something until it stops working
Weed (1)Weed out
- Remove, get rid of
Weigh (2)Weigh in
- Have a certain weight (in sports like boxing)
- Enter an argument forcefully
Weigh up
- Assess
While (1)While away
- Spend time doing something because you have nothing better to do
Whip (3)Whip out
- Remove quickly
Whip through
- Do something quickly
Whip up
- Make food quickly
- Mix liquid food quickly to make it thick and creamy
- Make people feel more strongly about something
Whisk (1)Whisk away
- Take to another place quickly
White (1)White out
- Use correction fluid to cover a mistake in a written text
Wig (1)Wig out
- Become excited and lose control
Wiggle (2)Wiggle out
- Avoid doing
Wiggle out of
- Avoid doing something
Wimp (1)Wimp out
- Not be brave enough to do something
Wind (3)Wind down
- Relax
- Slowly close a business or organisation
Wind on
- Forward a film or tape to a certain point
Wind up
- Close a company because it's unprofitable
- Tighten the spring in a watch or clock to make it work
- Irritate someone or increase their stress level, especially if done deliberately
Winkle (1)Winkle out
- Find or get something that takes a great deal of effort
Wipe (1)Wipe out
- Make someone very tired
- Kill all of a population, make extinct
Wire (1)Wire up
- Make electrical connections
Wise (1)Wise up
- Stop being stupid
Word (2)Word up
- Give someone information, advice
Word up!
- A phrase that was used a greeting
Work (3)Work off
- Exercise to remove stress or weight
Work on
- Improve or develop
Work out
- End nicely
- Find the answer or solution
Wrap (1)Wrap up
- Cover in paper
- Dress warmly
- Finish
Wriggle (1)Wriggle out of
- Avoid doing something in a way other people don't like
Write (5)Write down
- Make notes
Write in
- Send a letter to a TV station, etc.
Write off
- Destroy a car in an accident
Write out
- Write something completely
Write up
- Make complete written version
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