get (sb/sth) out
— phrasal verb with get uk/ɡet/us/ɡet/verb present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US usually gotten
C1 to (help someone or something to) escape from or leave a place:
I left the door open and the cat got out.
A team of commandos got the hostages out from the rebel base.
More examples
- Rescuers managed to get all the residents out before the building collapsed.
- The firemen were called to get the cat out put of the tree.
- The prisoners got out through a hole in the fence.
- Helicopters were used to get the troops out of the region.
- The fire was so severe that no one got out alive.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Liberating, relaxing and releasing
- chillax
- decontrol
- deregulate
- emancipate
- exempt
- free
- get
- liberate
- loose
- loosen
- loosen (sb) up
- loosen sb's tongue idiom 1
- loosen sb's tongue
- relax your grip/hold idiom
- release
- unbind
- unconfined
- unhand
- untethered
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