get

Meanings

• a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
• come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
  • "Get your results the next day"
  • "Get permission to take a few days off from work"
• enter or assume a certain state or condition
  • "It must be getting more serious"
  • "Get going!"
• cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
• receive a specified treatment (abstract)
• reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
  • "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"
• go or come after and bring or take back
  • "Get me those books over there, please"
• go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
  • "get an idea"
  • "get nauseous"
• take vengeance on or get even
  • "We'll get them!"
• achieve a point or goal
• cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
• succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
• come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
• be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
• communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
  • "The operator couldn't get Kobe because of the earthquake"
• give certain properties to something
  • "get someone mad"
• move into a desired direction of discourse
• grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
  • "did you get it?"
  • "She didn't get the joke"
  • "I just don't get him"
• attract and fix
• reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
• reach by calculation
  • "What do you get when you add up these numbers?"
• acquire as a result of some effort or action
  • "You cannot get water out of a stone"
  • "Where did she get these news?"
• purchase
  • "What did you get at the toy store?"
• perceive by hearing
  • "She didn't get his name when they met the first time"
• suffer from the receipt of
• receive as a retribution or punishment
• leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
• reach and board
• irritate
  • "Her childish behavior really get to me"
  • "His lying really gets me"
• evoke an emotional response
  • "Brahms's `Requiem' gets me every time"
• apprehend and reproduce accurately
• earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
• overcome or destroy
• be a mystery or bewildering to
• take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
  • "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"
  • "Let's get down to work now"
• undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
• make children

Synonyms

acquire, aim, amaze, arrest, arrive, baffle, beat, become, beget, begin, bewilder, bring, bring forth, bugger off, buzz off, capture, catch, cause, come, commence, contract, convey, develop, draw, drive, dumbfound, engender, experience, father, fetch, find, fix, flummox, fuck off, generate, get down, get under one's skin, go, gravel, grow, have, incur, induce, let, make, mother, mystify, nonplus, obtain, pay back, pay off, perplex, pose, produce, puzzle, receive, scram, set about, set out, sire, start, start out, stick, stimulate, stupefy, suffer, sustain, take, vex