get
/ɡɛt/ verb A1- To obtain; to acquire. · I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.· Lance is going to get Mary a ring.
- To receive. · I got a computer from my parents for my birthday.· He got a severe reprimand for that.
- To have. See usage notes. · I've got a concert ticket for you.
- To fetch, bring, take. · Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?· I need to get this to the office.
- To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives). · Near-synonyms: become, turn, go, come, fall, grow, wax· I'm getting hungry; how about you?
- To cause to become; to bring about. · That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it.· I'll get this finished by lunchtime.
- To cause to do. · Somehow she got him to agree to it.· I can't get it to work.
- To cause to come or go or move. · I got him to his room.
Plural get · He/she/it gets · Past got · Past participle got · -ing form getting
Verb forms
- Base form
- get
- He/she/it
- gets
- Past
- got
- Past participle
- got
- -ing form
- getting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- get about To be mobile, physically active.
- get across To cross; to move from one side (of something) to the oth...
- get after To move into action in pursuit of something.
- get along To interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble.
- get around To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstr...
- get away To move away (from).
- get back Return to where one came from.
- get by To subsist; to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a...
- get down To bring or come down; to descend; to cause to bring or c...
- get in Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, in.
- get into To move into (an object), such that one ends up inside it.
- get off To move (something) from being on top of (something else)...
From the library
Then Dorothy and the Lion got up, and the girl helped the Tin Woodman put the straw back into the Scarecrow again, until he was as good as ever.
“And then,” said Madame de Villefort, endeavoring by a struggle, and with effort, to get away from her thoughts, “however skilfully it is prepared, crime is always crime, and if it avoid human scrutiny, it does not escape the eye of God.
Rachel got up with an air of offended dignity.
“For,” he said, “if I should get caught in the rain, and rust again, I would need the oil-can badly.”
Other matches
- get Offspring, especially illegitimate. C2
- get A Jewish writ of divorce. C2
- get about To be mobile, physically active.
- get across To cross
- get after To move into action in pursuit of something.
- get along To interact or coexist well, without argument o...
- get around To move to the other side of
- get away To move away
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