Preposition 'Away' - Phrasal Verb Quiz

Quiz for Verb: 'To away'

Choose the correct definition for each phrasal verb...

'Peel away' means...

Escape from people chasing you

Read a list aloud for someone to write down

Leave a group by moving in a different direction

'Bottle away' means...

Store up

Faint, lose consciousness

Continue without a clear aim or plan

'Give away' means...

Give an advantage to your opponent in a sport by making a mistake, playing badly, etc

Produce

Pay attention after not doing so

'Lock yourself away' means...

To go or run towards a place, especially when you are trying to escape

Go somewhere away from people to study or work

Take revenge on

'Run away' means...

Be attracted sexually

Have a good relationship

Leave home because of problems with other family members or to elope

'Get away' means...

Be connected to a time, place, belief, thing, etc

Move, leave somewhere

Manage to pass

'Scare away' means...

Join, enter

Frighten someone some much that they go away

Be small enough to wear something

'Tear away' means...

Compete or force to compete

Remove a surface violently

Try to get someone to pay a bill, debt, etc

'Pine away' means...

Suffer physically because of grief, stress, worry, etc

Fire bullets

Short circuit

'Break away' means...

Accept something less satisfactory because there's no alternative

Leave an organisation, usually to form a new one

Publish, make available for the public to see or buy

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