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▸ verb: (transitive) To receive.
▸ verb: (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
▸ verb: (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
▸ verb: (copulative) To become, or cause oneself to become.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to do.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
▸ verb: (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
▸ verb: (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
▸ verb: (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
▸ verb: (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
▸ verb: (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
▸ verb: (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
▸ verb: (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
▸ verb: (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
▸ verb: (auxiliary, informal) Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
▸ verb: (impersonal, informal) Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
▸ verb: (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
▸ verb: (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
▸ verb: (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
▸ verb: (transitive) To find as an answer.
▸ verb: (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
▸ verb: (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
▸ verb: (transitive) To getter.
▸ verb: (now rare) To beget (of a father).
▸ verb: (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
▸ verb: (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
▸ verb: (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
▸ verb: (euphemistic) To kill.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
▸ verb: (transitive) To measure.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
▸ noun: (dated) Offspring.
▸ noun: Lineage.
▸ noun: (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
▸ noun: (informal) Something gained; an acquisition.
▸ noun: (British, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”)
▸ noun: (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
▸ noun: A member of the Getae.
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get out,
get over,
get away,
get through,
get up,
get down,
get by,
get around,
get through with,
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