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- To find the time or occasion for; deal with:
We finally got around to unpacking our knickknacks.
- To escape the consequences of (a blameworthy act, for example):
got away with cheating.
- To take revenge on.
- To begin to work; get started.
- To obtain revenge.
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Get
- get around to
- get away with
- get back at
- get cracking
- get even
- get even with
- get going
- get hold
- get it
- get it on
- get it up
- get nowhere
- get (one's)
- get on the stick
- get on with
- get out of
- get (someone's) goat
- get somewhere
- get there
- get wind of
- get about
- get across
- get after
- get along
- get anywhere
- get around
- get around to
- get at
- get away
- get away from it all
- get away with
- get back
- get someone back
- get behind
- get by
- get down
- get down to
- get in
- get into it
- get it
- get it on
- get nowhere
- get off
- get (someone) off
- get off on
- get on
- get on for
- get (right) on it
- get out
- get out of
- get over
- get one's own back
- get somewhere
- get so (that)
- get there
- get through
- get to
- get together
- get up
- get with
Origin of Get
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From Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną (compare Old English ġietan, Old High German pi-gezzan 'to uphold', Gothic bi-gitan 'to find, discover'), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰend- 'to seize'. Cognate with Latin prehendo.
From Wiktionary
Mishnaic Hebrew gēṭ from Aramaic from Akkadian giṭṭu long clay tablet, receipt, document from Sumerian gíd.da long
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English geten from Old Norse geta ghend- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Hebrew גֵּט (gēṭ).
From Wiktionary
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Variant of git
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