Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To come into possession or use of; receive.
- intransitive verb To meet with or incur.
- intransitive verb To go after and obtain.
- intransitive verb To go after and bring.
- intransitive verb To purchase; buy.
- intransitive verb To acquire as a result of action or effort.
- intransitive verb To earn.
- intransitive verb To accomplish or attain as a result of military action.
- intransitive verb To obtain by concession or request.
- intransitive verb To arrive at; reach.
- intransitive verb To reach and board; catch.
- intransitive verb To succeed in communicating with, as by telephone.
- intransitive verb To become affected with (an illness, for example) by infection or exposure; catch.
- intransitive verb To be subjected to; undergo.
- intransitive verb To receive as retribution or punishment.
- intransitive verb To sustain a specified injury to.
- intransitive verb To perceive or become aware of by one of the senses.
- intransitive verb To gain or have understanding of.
- intransitive verb To learn (a poem, for example) by heart; memorize.
- intransitive verb To find or reach by calculating.
- intransitive verb To procreate; beget.
- intransitive verb To cause to become or be in a specified state or condition.
- intransitive verb To make ready; prepare.
- intransitive verb To cause to come or go.
- intransitive verb To cause to move or leave.
- intransitive verb To cause to undertake or perform; prevail on.
- intransitive verb To take, especially by force; seize.
- intransitive verb Informal To overcome or destroy.
- intransitive verb To evoke an emotional response or reaction in.
- intransitive verb To annoy or irritate.
- intransitive verb To present a difficult problem to; puzzle.
- intransitive verb To take revenge on, especially to kill in revenge for a wrong.
- intransitive verb Informal To hit or strike.
- intransitive verb Baseball To put out or strike out.
- intransitive verb To begin or start. Used with the present participle.
- intransitive verb To have current possession of. Used in the present perfect form with the meaning of the present.
- intransitive verb Nonstandard To have current possession of. Used in the past tense form with the meaning of the present.
- intransitive verb To have as an obligation. Used in the present perfect form with the meaning of the present.
- intransitive verb Nonstandard To have as an obligation. Used in the past tense with the meaning of the present.
- intransitive verb To become or grow to be.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Even beyond that most people in the province probably know residents who had never shown an interest in jigging a cod before they were told they couldnt, and those same residents were among the first to decide they simply had to get out and get their fish.
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Rather than making it harder to get divorced, which would cause problems for people in abusive situations, why not just make it harder to *get* married?
Low blue-state teen pregnancy and divorce rates are not red herrings! 2005
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Yes, -- and, to confirm my suspicions, here rattle in the drums and pipe in the fifes, wooing us to get up, _get up_, with music too peremptory to be harmonious.
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"How or where or when does not interest me -- but get him, you understand, _get him_!"
Broken to the Plow Charles Caldwell Dobie 1912
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Three to get ready; and four to -- _get ready to go!
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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_And by what law can you expect to get what you believe you can not get_?
Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887
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This enables me to easily get the hash value and update my page, whether that action is as simple as updating the page with the hash data itself, as shown below or whether it involves requesting data from the server based on a unique identifier stored in the hash: function HashChanged () {$get ( "content"). innerHTML = window. location.hash;}
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So that when the little beginner in the use of language, as he wakes up in his crib, and stretching out his hands to his mother says, "I want _to get up_" she comes to take him, and replies, her face beaming with delight, "My little darling! you shall _get up_;" thus filling his mind with happiness at the idea that his mother is not only pleased that he attempts to speak, but is fully satisfied, and more than satisfied, with his success.
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"It is impossible to say what quantity of gold the Kunsi may get; but their pretence that they _get none_ must be false, when every common Malay obtains from half to one bunkal per month.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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Don't you see it -- can't you get it -- can't you _get_ it! "
The Miracle Man 1909
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In Judaism, a divorce document called a get is presented from husband to wife, in the presence of rabbis and witnesses, to spiritually dissolve the union.
‘It was one of the best nights of my life’: the joy of divorce parties Sirin Kale 2019
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The PACE trial study protocol, which was designed in collaboration with a British ME/CFS patient charity, strove to determine whether graded exercise therapy, or GET, and cognitive behavioral therapy could improve outcomes.
We Might Have Long Covid All Wrong Natalie Shure 2023
frindley commented on the word get
Australians are taught to avoid this word at all costs. I remember a teacher in primary school telling me there was no sentence where the word "get" couldn't be replaced by an alternative (implication: superior) word. Being something of a smart-ass, I responded by writing a sentence about the word, making "get" necessary.
Of course, she was simply urging her students to broaden their vocabularies and, more important, seek out powerful and specific verbs. Good on her!
(See also Aussie prejudices re gotten.)
March 30, 2008