Grow out of

Grow out of (sth) : to age out of something; to outgrow something; to abandon something as one matures.

• Example in context:

• Night activities are often something many people experience as children and later grow out of, but for one in ten people the restlessness continues.

Abandonar, dejar de hacer, quitarse con el tiempo (mala costumbre, defecto, etc).

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Go out

1- Go out: Leave a place
2- Go out: Stop burning, be extinguished

1-  Salir
2-  Apagarse (luz, fuego, cigarrillos) 

• Intransitive

• Examples in context:

1.-  As she was going out for a walk, she decided to drop off the letter at the correct house.
1.-  Once the allocated time in front of the box has expired, the TV automatically switches off and the child must go out to play if he wants to earn more time.
1.-  There were also some good effects though, as people developed survival skills and went out for walks and visited friends rather than sitting in front of a computer.
1.- The proportion of women going out to work is probably the main force pushing this time-saving trend.
1.- Some people are good at being fugitives from the police. They stay at home, they go out in disguise or even create a new identity.
1.- Things reached an all-time low one night in 1989 when a female Wall Street executive went out jogging, only to be brutally raped and beaten by a gang of black teenagers.

2.-  I have a packet at home, but I don’t like them. They always go out.

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Go on

Go on: Happen

• Intransitive

• Examples in context:

• (...) including a man who unknowingly tried to have sex with his wife; she, by contrast, was wide awake and well aware of what was going on.

• Flats in which there are no dining tables are also flats in which not much in the way of cooking fresh ingredients goes on.

• But if you're constantly living in the future, ignoring what's going on right now because you're always trying to achieve difficult goals, you're not really living.

Pasar

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Go back

1- Go back : Have a long history

• Intransitive

        2- Go back : Return to, start doing something again

• Inseparable

• Examples in context:

1. Artificial intelligence (AI) is an area of research that goes back to the very beginnings of computer science. 
2. Peter waited for an hour to go back  home, and there he told his wife about the ghost.

1- Remontarse
2- Volver

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Get out

1- Get (sb) out of (sth): Give up

• Separable (optional)
• Intransitive

        2- Get out (of sth):  Go out

• Inseparable
• Intransitive

• Examples in context:

1. (...) if they need surgery they must undergotherapy for three months in order to get out of the habit.
2.  If they are passengers in your car, stop, ask them to get out, especially if it’s raining.

1- Dejar, abandonar (vicio, costumbre, rutina)
2- Apearse, bajar de (coche, tren, avión)

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Find out

Find (sth/sb) out : Discover

• Separable (optional)

• Examples in context:

• As the country has no free press, no one will find out what exactly happened.

• Experts claimed that scientists now had to find out why the effect occurred.

• Banderas is finding out the cost of being a star: newspapers around the world have been talking about his romance with Melanie Griffiths, begun while filming Two Much in Miami. 
• Dr Robert Provine conducted research in shopping centres in the USA to find out when and why people laugh. He found out that most laughter did not occur after jokes but in response to simple statements, such as “It was nice to meet you, too”.
• But we can find out how computers work, and once we understand them we can use computers instead of worrying about being used by them.
• If you are used to sunbathing topless on the beach, for example, you had better find out if that’s acceptable where you’re going. 
• The day I found out I'd passed my degree was full of emotion.
• We can find out from one person how others are likely to behave, how we should react to them when we actually meet them (...).
• The third step is reformation – getting the person I’m disappearing to a destination without anybody finding out. 
• You can use the Internet to find out about Scotland’s many festivals.

Enterarse (de algo), descubrir, pillar a alguien

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Fill out

Fill (sth) out: Complete a form

• Separable (optional)

• Example in context:
• The youngsters’ mothers were asked to (...) fill out questionnaires about their child's hyperactivity, inattention and daytime sleepiness.

Rellenar (formulario, impreso, solicitud).

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End up

1-2 End up : Become or do something unplanned

• Inseparable

         3- End up in :  To arrive, especially by a circuitous or lengthy route or process

• Inseparable
• Intransitive

• Examples in context:

• 1- 
• (...) students who drank it this fall at Ramapo College in New Jersey ended up in emergency rooms, some with high levels of alcohol poisoning. 
• (...) the region could end up with no floating ice in summers sometime between 2050 and the early decades of the next century. 
• This involves coating the silk in a sweet potato paste, (...). It is later rinsed many times in water, and ends up a soft, off-black colour.  
• Under current trade agreements, industries can compete by spending so little on wages and infrastructure, such as decent sewerage, that their labourers end up in very poor health.

• 2- 
• Once you make a robot for human environments (...) you end up getting closer to a human shape.
• Illegal copies of movies end up being sold on street corners and made available through online networks just after they are shown in cinemas for the first time.                              
• You end up missing parts of the film.

• 3- 
• If you click on it, you'll end up in their site , so they could, for example, set off a certain code to remotely access and control your computer.
• (...) some end up in special schools, such as the Riverside Young Mothers’ Unit in North Shields.

1- terminar, acabar (en un estado)
2- terminar, acabar (haciendo algo)
       3- ir a parar a, terminar en (un lugar)


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Dress up

Dress up (as sb) : to put fancy dress or disguise on (oneself or another), as in children's games

• Intransitive

• Examples in context:
• They began to dress up in costumes and go from house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today's trick-or-treat tradition.

Disfrazarse


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Cut down

1- (on sth) Consume less
2- (to sth) Reduce

• Separable (optional)
• Intransitive

• Examples in context:
• 1- "We don't need to go vegetarian (...) but we do need to cut down on meat," said Peter Bennett.
  (...) graphic picture warnings lead to greater awareness of the risks associated with smoking and help encourage people to cut down or quit.
• 2- Time needed depends on effort – as you progress to moderate activities, you can cut down to thirty minutes, four days a week.

Reducir el consumo (de tabaco/bebida/comida/droga, etc)
Reducir, acortar, abreviar 

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Come across

Find sth or meet sb by chance

• Inseparable

• Example:
• If you come across some rude mobile phone addicts, don’t hesitate to interrupt (...)

Encontrar(se)/dar/toparse con algo/alguien (que no se está buscando).

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Chop down

Fell or cut down a tree

• Separable (optional)

• Example:
• Dramatically reduced meat consumption would slow down deforestation in South America, where rainforests are being chopped down to raise cows (...)

Atacar violentamente

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Catch up

(on, with sth) Reach the same point/level as

• Separable (optional)

• Example:
• The BRICs are younger and hungrier than us, and catching up fast.

Alcanzar, llegar a la altura de

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Put on

Put (sth) on : Start wearing

• Separable (optional)

• Example in context:

• These were designed to button up the back, so that you couldn’t put them on without the help of others.

Ponerse (ropa, gafas, sobrero)


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Carry out

Carry out: Perform a task

• Separable (optional)

• Examples in context:

• A series of weather modification experiments carried out by General Electric Laboratories showed that releasing chemicals into clouds caused (...).
• A study carried out in Germany over eight years has found that chocolate may be good for your heart. 

Llevar a cabo, realizar

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Burn down

Burn completely

• Separable (optional)

• Examples:
• "Liberate yourself. The missed call won’t be someone saying your house has burnt down".

• "We're building it up to burn it down" - Burn it down by Linkin Park

Incendiar (se)

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Get across

Get across (sth): Go from one side to the other

• Inseparable

• Example in context:

• If several hundreds attempt to get across, at least a few are bound to succeed.

Pasar/cruzar (de un lado a otro), atravesar

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Put off

Put sb off (sth/doing sth) : to make someone dislike something or someone, or to discourage someone from doing something

• Separable (optional)

• Example in context:

• (...) immigrants have been storming the borders between Morocco and the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla massively. The double three-metre-high barbed-wire fences that divide Spanish and Moroccan territories have not put them off.

Desanimar a alguien, quitarle a alguien las ganas de/interés por, disuadir a alguien (de algo/hacer algo)


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Creep into

Occur or develop gradually and almost imperceptibly

• Inseparable

• Example:
• A spider crept into the beam of radiation and bit Peter's hand.

Entrar sigilosamente, colarse

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Burn out

Lose enthusiasm and energy to continue in a demanding job

• Intransitive

• Example:
• Lotscher is (...) helping parents and burnt out mothers to cope with the day-to-day reality of caring for a child with special needs.

Quemarse (perder entusiasmo y energía)

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