Phrasal Verb of the Day
brighten up (1)
✍🏾 Meaning
to make a place or a thing look more cheerful and more lively
Synonym
liven up
❕ For example
brighten up sth
🔺 Some pictures and plants would definitely brighten up the apartment.
brighten sth up
🔺 Don't you think it'd brighten the garden up a bit if we had more flowering plants?
Nouns often used as objects with brighten up (1): room, office, apartment, garden, design, packaging, advertisement, poster
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act out
✍🏾 Meaning
If you act out, you express your feelings through acts or words.
Synonym
express
❕For example
📌act out sth
🔺Jim often gets into trouble because he acts out his emotions without thinking about the consequences.
act sth out
🔺We can all have violent thoughts and aggressive feelings sometimes, but society doesn't usually allow us to act them out.
