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单词 get round
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to get round
to get round
1. intransitive. To succeed in passing from one place to another by a roundabout or circuitous route; to pass through a number of places on a circuit; (also) (of a rumour, etc.) to circulate. Also: to move by rotation.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > move in a certain direction [verb (intransitive)] > from place to place
to get round1653
circulate1691
1653 T. Taylor Moses & Aaron xxiv. 294 Even in Countries, above a hundred yeares reformed, it [sc. Popery] gets round?
1677 E. Coles Eng. Dict. (new ed.) at Shingles A heat arising in the body, if it get round, it kills.
1679 Earl of Castlemaine Eng. Globe i. v. 31 Never having the Sun but on one side of them (as still setting before he gets round).
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 160 Pizarro's squadron..had got round into these seas.
1756 J. Ferguson Astron. Explained iv. 55 When the planet has got round to B, it's projectile force is as much diminished..as it was augmented.
1842 J. F. Cooper Two Admirals II. x. 151 They got round, and headed north-north-east.
1858 R. T. S. Lowell New Priest in Conception Bay xx. 182 The vane of suspicion having, within twenty-four hours,..got round, and pointed straight to Mr. Urston's house.
1887 W. B. Allen Northern Cross xi. 139 Somehow the word got round that mischief was brewing between the Second Class and the Third.
1930 Oxf. Ann. Girls 26/2 The street beyond..grew steadily narrower... Some of the corners were so sharp that it was only by repeated tackings of an inch or so at a time that we were able to get round.
1968 A. S. C. Ross in Proc. Leeds Philos. & Lit. Soc. (Lit. & Hist. Section) 13 ii. 59 The player who had got round most times..might be the winner.
1973 ‘B. Mather’ Snowline x. 116 How long do you think I'd last if word got round that I'd been snouting?
2008 F. Ashbee Child in Jerusalem xviii. 109 After that, September and the other months with long names filled up the year till you got round to Christmas and January again.
2. intransitive. To recover from illness, get well. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > recover or be healed [verb (intransitive)]
wholeeOE
botenc1225
cover1297
amendc1325
recovera1375
warisha1386
recovera1387
healc1390
recurec1400
soundc1402
mendc1440
convalesce1483
guarish1489
restore1494
refete?a1505
revert1531
to gather (or pick) up one's crumbs1589
cure1597
recruit1644
to perk upa1656
retrieve1675
to pick up1740
to leave one's bed1742
to sit up and take nourishment1796
to get round1798
to come round1818
to pull through1830
rally1831
to fetch round1870
to mend up1877
to pull round1889
recoup1896
recuperate1897
1798 D. Crawford Poems 88 It's dung me fairly down, Nor ken I, gin I'll e'er get roun!
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. vi. 349 Did they tell you..that poor Thompson died last week? The other three boys are getting quite round, like you.
1885 C. L. Pirkis Lady Lovelace III. xli. 64 She would get round fifty times as quickly in the lighter, brighter room.
3. intransitive. With to: to succeed in finding the time, energy, or inclination for (doing something); to come to the point of dealing with.
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the world > action or operation > doing > do [verb (transitive)] > come to the point of doing
to get around1852
to get round1873
1873 Rep. Vt. Central Railroad Managem. 202 Then when I got round to it I would make out a voucher and take up my receipts.
1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xiv. 221 Everything in Lost Haven was put off until someone should have enough time to ‘get round to it’.
1961 J. Seymour Fat of Land viii. 106 Our neighbour Richard cans hares, but we never got round to that.
1967 K. Giles Death in Diamonds viii. 145 He must take Elizabeth there for a weekend, he resolved, with a slight undertone of sadness at the thought he would probably never get round to it.
2001 B. Broady In this Block there lives Slag 117 There was so much cooking, cleaning, doling out pocket money, rowing over TV programmes that we never got round to doing any proper work.
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1. intransitive. To induce (a person) to relax or abandon his or her reluctance, caution, or resistance; to circumvent, get the better of; to win round.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > speech intended to deceive > beguile, cajole [verb (transitive)]
bicharrea1100
fodea1375
begoc1380
inveiglea1513
to hold in halsc1560
to get within ——1572
cajole1645
to cajole with1665
butter1725
veigle1745
flummer1764
to get round ——1780
to come round ——1784
to get around ——1803
flatter-blind1818
salve1825
to come about1829
round1854
canoodle1864
moody1934
fanny1938
cosy1939
mamaguy1939
snow1943
snow-job1962
1780 Earl of Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. (1844) I. 309 The French are indefatigable in the pains they take to get round the Empress.
1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 40 But Tabby was terribly wroth To think he should think to get round her.
1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West iii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 130/2 One from the Land of Cakes..sought to ‘get round’ (in trade) a right ‘smart’ Yankee, but couldn't ‘shine’.
1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus 40 I must..ask her for the ring, very polite and civil, and try if I can't get round her that way.
1890 Harper's Mag. Nov. 963/2 She probably managed to get round him in various ways.
1934 G. B. Shaw Too True to be Good iii. 102 You think you can get round me by pretending to be my daughter; but that just shews what a fool you are; for I hate my daughter and my daughter hates me.
a1956 K. Sekyi Blinkards (1974) i. ii. 38 So you want to get round the old man? All right, come to my office tomorrow.
2000 H. Simpson Hey Yeah Right (2001) 161 And don't think you're going to get round me like that.
2. intransitive. To evade (a difficulty); to solve or deal successfully with (a problem).
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1801 F. Ames in Mercury & New-Eng. Palladium 4 Dec. 1/4 That one great barrier of the constitution..may be subverted indirectly though not directly. The democrats cannot get over it; but they say they will get roundit.
1854 Merry's Museum 27 374/2 Please don't attempt to get round the question..by denying the facts, but meet it fair and square on its logical merits.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 24 July 1/2 With every change in the rules comes a fresh ingenuity in getting round them.
1934 G. D. H. Cole & M. Cole Guide Mod. Politics ii. iv. 108 Not even American democracy can get round the fact that the fittest in the modern world are commonly those who possess the largest incomes.
1954 A. Skira Degas 54 Degas got round this drawback by using pastels instead of oils.
1971 G. Moore tr. M. Beti Poor Christ of Bomba ii. 101 ‘But the chief knows that the legal maximum is five hundred francs.’ ‘Don't be a donkey, my dear Vidal. You know that the natives always find ways of getting round that.’
1988 J. Trefil Dark Side of Universe xi. 152 To get round this disparity, superstring theorists postulate that [etc.].
2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 18 July 23 A bar is trying to get round the ban on smoking..by declaring itself part of the One and Universal Smokers' Church of God.
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