{"id":73209,"date":"2020-03-21T13:43:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T13:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73209"},"modified":"2020-03-21T13:43:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T13:43:35","slug":"phrasal-verbs-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/phrasal-verbs-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal Verbs | D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of phrasal verbs beginning with the letter\u00a0<b>D.<\/b>\u00a0Each phrasal verb is followed by its meaning. Example sentences are also given.<\/p>\n<p><b>Die away \/ die down<\/b>: diminish in intensity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The excitement soon died away.<\/li>\n<li>The controversy about the minister\u2019s involvement in the scam soon died down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Die off \/ die out<\/b>\u00a0= become extinct<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asiatic lions are in danger of dying off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disagree with<\/b>\u00a0= used to talk about foods or drinks that make a person sick.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alcohol disagrees with me. (= Alcohol makes me sick.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Do away with<\/b>\u00a0= abolish<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many countries have done away with the death penalty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Do over<\/b>\u00a0(separable) = repeat a job<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The teacher asked the boy to do the sum over.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Do without<\/b>\u00a0= manage to live without something that one wants<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We can\u2019t do without food or water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Dress down<\/b>\u00a0(separable) = reprimand severely; wear casual clothes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The teacher dressed the boy down because he was always late for school.<\/li>\n<li>She always dresses down.<\/li>\n<li>I guess you can dress down a bit. After all, we aren\u2019t going to a business meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Dress up<\/b>\u00a0(separable) = decorate, wear elegant clothes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She likes to dress her baby up.<\/li>\n<li>They dressed the venue up with bright lights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Drive at<\/b>\u00a0= mean<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What\u2019s he driving at? (= What is the purpose behind what he is saying?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Drive back<\/b>\u00a0(separable) = repulse; force someone to go back<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The militants were driven back by the army.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Drop behind<\/b>\u00a0= fail to keep up with<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you don\u2019t work hard you will drop behind your peers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Drop in<\/b>\u00a0= visit unexpectedly<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She always drops in when you least expect it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Drop in on somebody<\/b>\u00a0= visit somebody unexpectedly<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As we were driving by her house, we decided to drop in on Sophia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Drop out<\/b>\u00a0= quit<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I can\u2019t keep up with the schedule so I am thinking about dropping out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Drop out of<\/b>\u00a0= quit school etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As he had dropped out of school, he found it difficult to get a good job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Drop off<\/b>\u00a0= become fewer or less; fall asleep<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His customers are dropping off.<\/li>\n<li>The baby kept crying until she dropped off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Drop at\u00a0<\/b>(separable) = allow somebody to get out of a car, etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can you drop me at the bus station?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Drop over<\/b>\u00a0= visit casually<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feel free to drop over any time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of phrasal verbs beginning with the letter\u00a0D.\u00a0Each phrasal verb is followed by its meaning. Example sentences are also given. Die away \/ die down: diminish in intensity The excitement soon&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1059,1928,3],"class_list":["post-73209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phrasal-verbs","tag-common-phrasal-verbs","tag-english-phrasal-verbs","tag-phrasal-verbs-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73209","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73210,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73209\/revisions\/73210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}