get
verb
[ ɡɛt ]
• come to have (something); receive.
• "I got a letter from him the other day"
Similar:
acquire,
obtain,
come by,
come to have,
come into possession of,
receive,
gain,
earn,
win,
come into,
come in for,
take possession of,
take receipt of,
be given,
buy,
purchase,
procure,
possess oneself of,
secure,
gather,
collect,
pick up,
appropriate,
amass,
build up,
hook,
net,
land,
achieve,
attain,
get one's hands on,
get one's mitts on,
get hold of,
grab,
bag,
score,
swing,
nab,
collar,
cop,
be sent,
be in receipt of,
accept delivery of,
retrieve,
regain (possession of),
win back,
recover,
take back,
recoup,
reclaim,
repossess,
recapture,
retake,
redeem,
find (again),
track down,
trace,
claw back,
replevin,
replevy,
• succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain.
• "I need all the sleep I can get"
• reach or cause to reach a specified state or condition.
• "he'd got thinner"
• come, go, or make progress eventually or with some difficulty.
• "Nigel got home very late"
Similar:
arrive,
reach,
come,
make it,
turn up,
appear,
put in an appearance,
make an appearance,
come on the scene,
come up,
approach,
enter,
present oneself,
be along,
come along,
materialize,
show up,
show,
roll in,
roll up,
blow in,
show one's face,
return,
come home,
come back,
arrive home,
arrive back,
come again,
Opposite:
set out,
• see have.
• catch or apprehend (someone).
• "the police have got him"
Similar:
apprehend,
catch,
arrest,
capture,
seize,
take,
take prisoner,
take captive,
take into custody,
detain,
put in jail,
throw in jail,
put behind bars,
imprison,
incarcerate,
collar,
grab,
nab,
nail,
run in,
bust,
pick up,
pull in,
haul in,
do,
feel someone's collar,
pinch,
nick,
• understand (an argument or the person making it).
• "What do you mean? I don't get it"
Similar:
hear,
recognize,
discern,
distinguish,
make out,
pick out,
perceive,
follow,
keep up with,
take in,
understand,
comprehend,
grasp,
see,
fathom,
puzzle out,
work out,
apprehend,
get to the bottom of,
unravel,
decipher,
get the drift of,
catch on to,
latch on to,
make head or tail of,
figure out,
get the picture,
get the message,
twig,
suss out,
suss,
• acquire (knowledge) by study; learn.
• "that knowledge which is gotten at school"
get
noun
• an animal's offspring.
• a person whom the speaker dislikes or despises.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old Norse geta ‘obtain, beget, guess’; related to Old English gietan (in begietan ‘beget’, forgietan ‘forget’), from an Indo-European root shared by Latin praeda ‘booty, prey’, praehendere ‘get hold of, seize’, and Greek khandanein ‘hold, contain, be able’.
