Preposition 'Across' - Phrasal Verb Quiz

Quiz for Verb: 'To across'

Choose the correct definition for each phrasal verb...

'Run across' means...

Tease, deceive

Meet or find accidentally

Stop doing something annoying

'Get across' means...

Communicate successfully

Dig a plant out of the ground

Oblige or force someone to carry out an obligation

'Come across' means...

Approach someone without their knowing

Reduce the price of something

Find by accident

'Go across' means...

Move to another side or place

Develop or change over time to fit something

Get someone to pay or donate money

'Come across' means...

The way other people see you or something.

Try to find something

Close a particular computer program that requires a name and password

'Put across' means...

Cause a problem to occur

Communicate, convey a message

Give

'Get across' means...

Lose a decision or a verdict of a court

Face (of a building)

Go from one side to the other

'Cut across' means...

Go across a place rather than around it to make the journey quicker

Destroy

Finish

'Get across' means...

Go into a building to steal something

Move something from one side to the other

Comment, make a statement

'Stumble across' means...

Find something accidentally

Control someone or something to stop them causing more trouble

Stop working, especially computers

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