PHRASAL VERB

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit

Example:

'turn out' is a phrasal verb in the question 'how many turned out to vote?'

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("phrasal verb" is a kind of...):

verb (the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence)

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