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Sounds | geh't; gih't |
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Rhymes | abet, alphabet, anisette, and 102 more rhymes in eht at the HyperDic website... |
acquit, admit, affectionate, and 178 more rhymes in iht at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
Model | The children get the ball |
Examples | "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" |
Synonyms | acquire |
Narrower | isolate; win back, get back; press out, express, extract; capture, catch; come by; buy, purchase; lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take; receive, have; turn; buy; find; glom; enter upon, come upon, luck into; line up, get hold, come up, find; accept, take, have; obtain; recover, retrieve, find, regain; catch; recover, recoup, recuperate; reclaim, repossess; find, regain; acquire, win, gain; gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in; earn, garner; profit, gain, benefit; partake, share, partake in; preempt; collect, pick up, gather up, call for; inherit, come into; borrow; pick up; get; poll |
Similar to | receive, get, find, obtain, incur |
Nouns | getting |
Meaning | Enter or assume a certain state or condition. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective; Somebody ----s PP |
Model | John will get angry |
Examples | "It must be getting more serious"; "Get going!" |
Synonyms | become, go |
Narrower | sober up, sober; sober up, sober; work; take effect; run; take; break; settle; come |
Broader | change state, turn |
See also | get ahead; get on, get along; get over |
Meaning | Cause to move. Cause to be in a certain position or condition. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
Synonyms | let, have |
Broader | make, get |
Meaning | Receive a specified treatment (abstract). |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Synonyms | receive, find, obtain, incur |
Narrower | take |
Broader | change |
Similar to | get, acquire |
Meaning | Reach a destination. Arrive by movement or progress. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight" |
Synonyms | arrive, come |
Entailed by | immigrate |
Narrower | land, set down; drive in; land, put down, bring down; land, set ashore, shore; roll up; come, come in; reach, hit, attain; flood in; pull in, get in, move in, draw in; plump in |
Contrary | leave, go forth, go away |
Similar to | get |
Meaning | Go or come after and bring or take back. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP |
Examples | "Get me those books over there, please" |
Synonyms | bring, convey, fetch |
Entails | come, come up |
Narrower | retrieve; deliver |
Broader | transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise |
Contrary | take away, bear off, bear away, carry away, carry off |
Similar to | bring, convey, take |
Meaning | Of mental or physical states or experiences. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "get an idea"; "get nauseous" |
Synonyms | experience, receive, have, undergo |
Entails | perceive, comprehend |
Narrower | respire; labor, labour; suffer, sustain, have, get; take; horripilate |
Meaning | Take vengeance on or get even. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP |
Examples | "We'll get them!" |
Synonyms | pay back, pay off, fix |
Broader | get even, get back |
Similar to | pay |
Meaning | Achieve a point or goal. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | have, make |
Broader | score, hit, tally, rack up |
Similar to | make |
Meaning | Cause to do. Cause to act in a specified manner. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE; Somebody ----s somebody INFINITIVE |
Model | They get him to write the letter |
Synonyms | induce, stimulate, cause, have, make |
Narrower | decide; persuade; bring; solicit; encourage; let; lead; prompt, inspire, instigate; suborn; compel, oblige, obligate |
Meaning | Succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | catch, capture |
Narrower | recapture, retake; lasso, rope |
Broader | seize, prehend, clutch |
Meaning | Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes). |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | grow, develop, produce, acquire |
Narrower | fledge, feather; regrow; spring; sprout, stock; stool, tiller; leaf; pod; teethe; pupate; work up, get up; cut |
Broader | change |
Similar to | develop, acquire, evolve |
Nouns | getting |
Meaning | Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | contract, take |
Narrower | catch |
Broader | sicken, come down |
Similar to | catch |
Meaning | Communicate with a place or person. Establish communication with, as if by telephone. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "The operator couldn't get Kobe because of the earthquake" |
Broader | communicate, intercommunicate |
Meaning | Give certain properties to something. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s somebody INFINITIVE |
Examples | "get someone mad" |
Synonyms | make |
Narrower | render; get, let, have; leave |
Broader | change, alter, modify |
Meaning | Move into a desired direction of discourse. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | drive, aim |
Broader | mean, intend |
Meaning | Grasp with the mind or develop an undersatnding of. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "did you get it?"; "She didn't get the joke"; "I just don't get him" |
Synonyms | catch |
Broader | understand |
Similar to | catch, get; get |
Meaning | Attract and fix. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | catch, arrest |
Broader | attract, pull, pull in, draw, draw in |
Meaning | Reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | catch |
Broader | hit |
Meaning | Reach by calculation. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "What do you get when you add up these numbers?" |
Entails | calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure |
Similar to | get |
Meaning | Acquire as a result of some effort or action. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "You cannot get water out of a stone"; "Where did she get these news?" |
Broader | get, acquire |
Similar to | catch, get; get |
Meaning | Purchase. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "What did you get at the toy store?" |
Category | commerce, commercialism, mercantilism |
Broader | buy, purchase |
Nouns | getting |
Meaning | Perceive by hearing. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "She didn't get his name when they met the first time" |
Synonyms | catch |
Broader | hear |
Similar to | catch, take in, overhear |
Meaning | Suffer from the receipt of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | catch |
Broader | hurt, ache, suffer |
Similar to | catch; get, receive |
Meaning | Receive as a retribution or punishment. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | receive |
Similar to | catch, get |
Meaning | Leave immediately. Used usually in the imperative form. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
Synonyms | scram, buzz off, fuck off, bugger off |
Broader | leave, go forth, go away |
Meaning | Reach and board. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Broader | catch |
Similar to | arrive, get, come |
Meaning | Irritate. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s to somebody |
Examples | "Her childish behavior really get to me"; "His lying really gets me" |
Synonyms | get under one's skin |
Broader | annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil |
Similar to | get |
Meaning | Evoke an emotional response. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
Model | The bad news will get him |
Examples | "Brahms's `Requiem' gets me every time" |
Broader | touch, stir |
Similar to | get, get under one's skin |
Meaning | Apprehend and reproduce accurately. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | catch |
Broader | reproduce |
Similar to | catch, get |
Meaning | In baseball: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | draw |
Broader | effect, effectuate, bring about, set up |
Meaning | Overcome or destroy. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Broader | destroy, ruin |
Meaning | Be a mystery or bewildering to. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
Synonyms | perplex, vex, stick, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound |
Narrower | stump, mix up; riddle; elude, escape |
Broader | confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate |
Meaning | Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE; Somebody ----s VERB-ing |
Model | They get moving |
Examples | "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "Let's get down to work now" |
Synonyms | get down, begin, start out, start, set about, set out, commence |
Narrower | recommence; strike out; fall; jump off; get to; auspicate; attack; break in; plunge, launch; come on; embark, enter; get cracking, bestir oneself, get going, get moving, get weaving, get started, get rolling |
Contrary | end, terminate |
Similar to | begin |
Meaning | Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses). |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | suffer, sustain, have |
Narrower | break down, collapse; crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse |
Broader | experience, receive, have, get, undergo |
Similar to | have |
Meaning | Make children. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | beget, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth |
Broader | make, create |