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Noun: getting geting- The act of acquiring something
"he's much more interested in the getting than in the giving" - acquiring Verb: get (got,getting, also gotten) get- Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
"She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" - acquire - Enter or assume a certain state or condition
"It must be getting more serious"; "Get going!" - become, go - Cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
"He got his squad on the ball"; "He got a girl into trouble" - let, have - Receive a specified treatment (abstract)
"I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" - receive, find, obtain, incur - Reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
"She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight" - arrive, come - Go or come after and bring or take back
"Get me those books over there, please" - bring, convey, fetch - Go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
"get an idea"; "get nauseous" - experience, receive, have - Take vengeance on or get even
"We'll get them!"; "This time I got him" - pay back, pay off, fix - Achieve a point or goal
"The Brazilian team got 4 goals" - have, make - Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
"My children finally got me to buy a computer" - induce, stimulate, cause, have, make - Succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
"We finally got the suspect" - catch, capture - Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
"I got funny spots all over my body" - grow, develop, produce, acquire - Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
"He got AIDS" - contract, take - Communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
"Bill called this number and he got Mary"; "The operator couldn't get Kobe because of the earthquake" - Give certain properties to something
"get someone mad" - make - Move into a desired direction of discourse
- drive, aim - Grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
"did you get it?"; "She didn't get the joke"; "I just don't get him" - catch - Attract and fix
- catch, arrest - Reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
"The blow got him in the back" - catch - Reach by calculation
"What do you get when you add up these numbers?" - Acquire as a result of some effort or action
"You cannot get water out of a stone"; "Where did she get these news?" - Purchase
"What did you get at the toy store?" - Perceive by hearing
"She didn't get his name when they met the first time" - catch - Suffer from the receipt of
- catch - Receive as a retribution or punishment
"He got 5 years in prison" - receive - Leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- scram, buzz off - Reach and board
"She got the bus just as it was leaving" - Irritate
"Her childish behaviour really get to me"; "His lying really gets me" - get under one's skin - Evoke an emotional response
"Brahms's 'Requiem' gets me every time" - Apprehend and reproduce accurately
"She got the mood just right in her photographs" - catch - Earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- draw - Overcome or destroy
"The ice storm got my hibiscus"; "the cat got the goldfish" - Be a mystery or bewildering to
"Got me--I don't know the answer!" - perplex, vex, stick, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound - Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
"Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "Let's get down to work now" - get down, begin, start out, start, set about, set out, commence - Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
"She got a bruise on her leg"; "He got his arm broken in the scuffle" - suffer, sustain, have - Make children
- beget [archaic], engender [archaic], father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth
Derived forms: gettings See also: get ahead, get on, get over Type of: ache, act, alter, annoy, attract, bedevil, befuddle, bother, buy, catch, chafe, change, change state, channel, channelise [Brit], channelize, clutch, come down, communicate, confound, confuse, create, deed, destroy, devil, discombobulate, draw, draw in, effect, effectuate, fox, fuddle, get at, get back, get even, get to, go away, go forth, gravel [US], hear, hit, human action, human activity, hurt, intend, intercommunicate, irritate, leave, make, mean, modify, nark [Brit], nettle, prehend [archaic], pull, pull in, purchase, rack up, rag, reproduce, rile, ruin, score, seize, set up, sicken, spifflicate, spiflicate, stir, suffer, tally, throw, touch, transfer, transmit, transport, turn, undergo, understand, vex Encyclopedia: Get |