{"id":233,"date":"2014-07-08T07:22:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T07:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2016-03-15T06:53:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T06:53:05","slug":"phrasal-verbs-beginning-with-letter-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/phrasal-verbs-beginning-with-letter-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal verbs beginning with letter E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Here is a list of phrasal verbs beginning with letter E.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Ease off<\/h3>\n<p>When pain or discomfort eases off, it becomes less severe.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The tablets couldn\u2019t ease off the pain.<\/li>\n<li>The heavy rain showed no sign of easing off, so we stayed indoors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ease up<\/strong> has the same meaning as <strong>ease off.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Eat away<\/h3>\n<p>When A eats B away, A destroys B or makes it less strong, prominent or important.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Labor unrest has been eating away our profits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Eat in \/ eat out<\/h3>\n<p>To eat in is to eat at home. To eat out is to eat in a restaurant.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I thought we could eat out tonight.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t feel like going out. I would rather eat in tonight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Eat up<\/h3>\n<p>To eat something up is to consume it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Where are the cookies?\u2019 \u2018I <strong>ate them up<\/strong>.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If a car eats up fuel, it consumes too much fuel.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My car <strong>eats up<\/strong> petrol. I should buy a more fuel-efficient one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When mosquitoes eat you up, they bite you all over.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t forget to apply some insect repellant cream when you go hiking. Otherwise, the bugs will<strong> eat you up.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When an idea <strong>eats you u<\/strong>p, it becomes an obsession.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The desire to become an actress was eating her up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Egg on<\/h3>\n<p>To egg somebody on is to encourage them to do something (silly).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They egged him on to jump across the stream.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Eke out<\/h3>\n<p>To<strong> eke something out<\/strong> is to make it last longer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We will need to develop renewable energy sources if we want to eke out our natural resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To eke out a living is to earn enough to live.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It simply isn\u2019t easy to eke out a living with a part time job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>End up<\/h3>\n<p>This is an inseparable phrasal verb. To end up somewhere is to end there after a series of events.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He frequently had trouble with the law so when he ended up in prison nobody was surprised.<\/li>\n<li>He ended up marrying his ex-girlfriend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Explain away<\/h3>\n<p>To explain something away is to give an excuse for something you have done.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He couldn\u2019t explain away his absence from work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Eye up<\/h3>\n<p>To eye somebody up is to look at them in a certain way that shows you are interested in them.<\/p>\n<p>Sally knew Martin was eyeing her up, but she chose to ignore him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of phrasal verbs beginning with letter E. Ease off When pain or discomfort eases off, it becomes less severe. The tablets couldn\u2019t ease off the pain. The heavy rain showed&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phrasal-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}