getting
/ˈɡɛtɪŋ/ noun A1- The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.
- That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.
Plural gettings
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Are getting up and being dressed.
“Man, this is getting past a joke!” cried MacDonald, rising angrily from his chair.
Marseilles is filled with half-pay officers, who are daily, under one frivolous pretext or other, getting up quarrels with the royalists; from hence arise continual and fatal duels among the higher classes of persons, and assassinations in the lower.”
There was no way of going around it, for it seemed to extend to the right and left as far as they could see; and, besides, they did not dare change the direction of their journey for fear of getting lost.
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