Health Phrasal Verbs with Meaning and Examples

Health Phrasal Verbs with Meaning and Examples

Pass away

§  Meaning: Die

§  Example: His mother passed away last year.

Run over

§  Meaning: Hit by a vehicle

§  Example: Two children were run over and killed.

Break out

§  Meaning: Develop skin sores or irritation

§  Example: The measles caused me to break out in a rash.

Fight off

§  Meaning: Resist an illness

§  Example: I’m trying to fight off a cold.

Come to

§  Meaning: Become conscious

§  Example: When he came to, he was lying on the floor with his hands tied behind his back.

Pass out

§  Meaning: Faint, lose consciousness

§  Example: People everywhere were passing out from the heat.

Get over

§  Meaning: Recover from something

§  Example: It’s taken me ages to get over the flu.

Come down with

§  Meaning: Become sick (not seriously)

§  Example: I think I’m coming down with the flu.

Throw up

§  Meaning: Be sick, vomit

§  Example: The baby’s thrown up her dinner.

Come round

§  Meaning: Become conscious

§  Example: Your mother hasn’t yet come round from the anesthetic.

Work out

§  Meaning: Train the body by physical exercise

§  Example: I work out regularly to keep fit.

Warm up

§  Meaning: Begin a physical activity gradually

§  Example: It’s necessary to warm up before exercise to prevent injuries.

Block up

§  Meaning: Stop something from moving through something else

§  Example: My nose is blocked up.

Lay (Laid) up

§  Meaning: Unable to work, etc. because of an illness or injury

§  Example: She’s laid up with a broken leg.

Swell up

§  Meaning: Become large, inflated, or bulging

§  Example: The boy’s arm swelled up where the bee had stung him.

Clog up

§  Meaning: Become or cause to become obstructed

§  Example: High fat foods can clog up our arteries.

Dose up (UK)

§  Meaning: Give medicine to

§  Example: You should dose up with vitamin C to fight colds off.

Lay low

§  Meaning: Render someone unable to move or leave their bed

§  Example: The flu usually lays people low for five to ten days.

Let up

§  Meaning: Become less strong or stop

§  Example: A cold continues at its peak for several days, then it gradually let up.

Shake off

§  Meaning: Shake something in order to get something off of it

§  Example: She has failed to shake off her stomach injury.