get
verb
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get verb (OBTAIN)
Synonyms
I got the impression that they'd rather be alone.
If you can get some time off work, we could finish the decorating.
I can never get her to myself (= be alone with her) because she's always surrounded by people.
Let me go get my glasses.
[ + two objects ] Can I get you a drink?
get verb (REACH)
get far/somewhere/anywhere
- We enjoyed wonderful views when we got to the top of the mountain.
- He was exhausted by the time he got to the finish line.
- Your bags will be waiting for you when you get to the hotel.
- The aid was getting to the people who needed it most.
- She's been trying hard, but she doesn't feel that she's getting anywhere.
- annex
- annexation
- be on the scene idiom
- been
- break
- break in
- come to sth
- enter
- hit
- ingress
- interloper
- intrude
- intrusion
- invade
- land
- trespass
- turn
- turn out
- turn sth up
- turn up (somewhere)
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get verb (BECOME ILL WITH)
get verb (START TO BE)
- He got fed up with all the travelling he had to do.
- The trouble with this carpet is that it gets dirty very easily.
- Your essay gets a bit confused halfway through when you introduce too many ideas at once.
- The music just gets distorted when you play it so loud.
- It was getting dark now and we were tired.
- be in the first flush of idiom
- be/get in on the ground floor idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- develop
- get down to business idiom
- grow
- here
- here goes! idiom
- hit the ground running idiom
- inaugurate
- inauguration
- motion
- strike
- strike out
- stuck
- stumble into sth
- swing into action idiom
- touch sth off
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get verb (CAUSE)
B2 [ T + obj + to infinitive ]
to persuade someone to do something:
Why don't you get Nicole to come to the party?
- These arguments always get my adrenalin going.
- I've been running round in circles trying to get all the reports finished before the meeting.
- Can you get this cork to come out of the bottle?
- "Do you think you could get this parcel mailed for me, please?" "Consider it done."
- The law has criminalized prostitution but not got rid of it.
- activation
- actuation
- agent
- associate
- awaken (sth) in sb
- be associated with sth
- contribute
- draw
- equal
- give rise to idiom
- implement
- implementation
- in
- inaugurate
- realize
- result in sth
- self-induced
- send
- stir sth up
- wake
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get verb (BE)
- be in the first flush of idiom
- be/get in on the ground floor idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- develop
- get down to business idiom
- grow
- here
- here goes! idiom
- hit the ground running idiom
- inaugurate
- inauguration
- motion
- strike
- strike out
- stuck
- stumble into sth
- swing into action idiom
- touch sth off
get verb (MOVE)
- Journalists had insisted on getting to the front line of the battle, heedless of the risks.
- Security did not prevent an interloper from getting onto the stage at the opening ceremony.
- You get into the building through a side door.
- I tried to get in the cinema last night but it was full.
- They got into the car and zoomed off.
get verb (TRAVEL)
- aboard
- bestride
- board
- climb
- debark
- deplane
- disembark
- disembarkation
- dismount
- embark
- embarkation
- entrain
- get off (sth)
- get on (sth)
- get out
- hop
- mount
- settle
- straddle
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get verb (DEAL WITH)
- attend to sb/sth
- be all over it idiom
- beard the lion (in his/her den) idiom
- bed
- come/get to grips with sth idiom
- cut
- hold
- hold on
- I/I've got this idiom
- ill-prepared
- jump-start
- overcome
- people skills
- square
- tough sth out
- turn (sth) to sth
- unprocessed
- weather
- weather the storm idiom
- you/you've got this idiom
get verb (HAVE CHANCE)
B2 [ I + to infinitive ]
to have the chance to do something:
- a free ride idiom
- another/a second bite at/of the cherry idiom
- best bet idiom
- bite
- break
- fish
- foot
- have a field day idiom
- hay
- it's now or never idiom
- look in
- make hay while the sun shines idiom
- pass
- platform
- scope
- shop window
- smell blood idiom
- sneak peek
- the American dream
- there are plenty more fish in the sea idiom
get verb (UNDERSTAND/HEAR)
B2 [ T ]
to understand or hear something:
get verb (PREPARE)
- I thought I could score some brownie points with my mother-in-law by offering to get dinner.
- I'll do the main course, if you get the salad.
- She was already up getting breakfast when I came downstairs.
- I'll cook this evening, you got dinner last night.
- He just sat in front of the TV while I was getting the dinner.
get verb (PAY)
get verb (CONFUSE)
[ T ] informal
- addle
- baffle
- bedazzle
- befuddle
- bemuse
- blind
- discombobulate
- disorientate
- do sb's head in idiom
- flummox
- fuddle
- loop
- puzzle
- ravel
- search
- throw
- throw (sb) a curve (ball) idiom
- throw sb off balance idiom
- tie
- tie sb (up) in knots idiom
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