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get

English

  1. 🔊 a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
  2. 🔊 cause to move
    “He got his squad on the ball”
  3. 🔊 reach by calculation
    “What do you get when you add up these numbers?”
  4. 🔊 communicate with a place or person
    “Bill called this number and he got Mary”
  5. 🔊 succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
    “We finally got the suspect”
  6. 🔊 reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
    “the rock caught her in the back of the head”
  7. 🔊 overcome or destroy
    “The ice storm got my hibiscus”
  8. 🔊 evoke an emotional response
    “Brahms's `Requiem' gets me every time”
  9. 🔊 irritate
    “Her childish behavior really get to me”
  10. 🔊 reach and board
    “She got the bus just as it was leaving”
  11. 🔊 receive as a retribution or punishment
    “He got 5 years in prison”
  12. 🔊 purchase
    “What did you get at the toy store?”
  13. 🔊 come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
    “She got a lot of paintings from her uncle”
  14. 🔊 acquire as a result of some effort or action
    “You cannot get water out of a stone”
  15. 🔊 make (offspring) by reproduction
    “Abraham begot Isaac”
  16. 🔊 give certain properties to something
    “get someone mad”
  17. 🔊 receive a specified treatment (abstract)
    “These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation”
  18. 🔊 grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
    “did you catch that allusion?”
  19. 🔊 move into a desired direction of discourse
    “What are you driving at?”
  20. 🔊 go or come after and bring or take back
    “Get me those books over there, please”
  21. 🔊 earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
    “He drew a base on balls”
  22. 🔊 apprehend and reproduce accurately
    “She really caught the spirit of the place in her drawings”
  23. 🔊 reach a destination
    “She arrived home at 7 o'clock”
  24. 🔊 suffer from the receipt of
    “She will catch hell for this behavior!”
  25. 🔊 perceive by hearing
    “I didn't catch your name”
  26. 🔊 achieve a point or goal
    “Nicklaus had a 70”
  27. 🔊 be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
    “He got AIDS”
  28. 🔊 enter or assume a certain state or condition
    “He became annoyed when he heard the bad news”
  29. 🔊 take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
    “We began working at dawn”
  30. 🔊 take vengeance on or get even
    “We'll get them!”
  31. 🔊 attract and fix
    “His look caught her”
  32. 🔊 undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
    “She suffered a fracture in the accident”
  33. 🔊 come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
    “He grew a beard”
  34. 🔊 be a mystery or bewildering to
    “This beats me!”
  35. 🔊 leave immediately
    “Scram!”
  36. 🔊 go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
    “get an idea”
  37. 🔊 cause to do
    “The ads induced me to buy a VCR”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 pescar to get
  2. 🔊 poner to get
  3. 🔊 lograr to get, to obtain
  4. 🔊 conseguir to get, obtain, acquire, find, gain, procure, extract, get to
  5. 🔊 sacar to get, to make, to take, to receive, to derive (to make or take something out of an experience or to make the most of, e.g. a benefit, a profit, money, etc.)

Similar words

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