Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
get (verb)transitive verb
1.
a) to gain possession of
b) to receive as a return - earn he got a bad reputation for carelessness
2.
a) to obtain by concession or entreaty - get your mother's permission to go
b) to become affected by (a disease or bodily condition) - catch got measles from his sister
3.
a) to seek out and obtain - hoped to get dinner at the inn
b) to obtain and bring where wanted or needed - get a pencil from the desk
4.
- beget
5.
a) to cause to come or go - quickly got his luggage through customs
b) to cause to move - get it out of the house
c) to cause to be in a certain position or condition - got his feet wet
d) to make ready - prepare get breakfast
6.
a) to be subjected to - got a bad fall
b) to receive by way of punishment
c) to suffer a specified injury to - got my nose broken
7.
a) to achieve as a result of military activity
b) to obtain or receive by way of benefit or advantage - he got little for his trouble get the better of an enemy
8.
a) - seize
b) - overcome
c) to have an emotional effect on - the final scene always gets me
d) - irritate the delays were starting to get her
e) - puzzle
f) to take vengeance on , specifically - kill
g) - hit
9.
to prevail on - cause finally got them to tidy up their room
10.
a) - have used in the present perfect tense form with present meaning I've got no money
b) to have as an obligation or necessity - used in the present perfect tense form with present meaning you have got to come
11.
a) to find out by calculation - get the answer to a problem
b) - memorize got the verse by heart
c) - hear
d) - understand he got the joke
12.
to establish communication with
13.
to put out in baseball
14.
intransitive verb
- deliver the car gets 20 miles to the gallon
1.
a) to succeed in coming or going to bring or move oneself - get away to the country got into the car
b) to reach or enter into a certain condition - got to sleep after midnight
c) to make progress - hasn't gotten far with the essay
2.
to acquire wealth
3.
a) to be able - never got to go to college
b) to come to be - often used with following present participle got talking about old times
4.
a) to succeed in becoming - become how to get clear of all the debts I owe Shakespeare
b) to become involved - people who get into trouble with the law
5.
verbal auxiliary
to leave immediately - told them to get - used with the past participle of transitive verbs as a passive voice auxiliary they got caught in the act
1.
a) something begotten
(1) - offspring
(2) the entire progeny of a male animal
b) - lineage
2.
a return of a difficult shot in a game (as tennis)
1.
a document of release from obligation in Jewish law , specifically a bill of divorce
2.
a religious divorce by Jewish law
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
get (noun)the descendants of a person, animal, or plant
SYNONIMS:
fruit, get, issue, posterity, progeny, seed, spawnRELATED WORDS:
brood, hatch, litter, young; child, scion; family, kin; lineage, stockNEAR ANTONYMS:
ancestor, antecedent, father, forebear ( forbear), forebearer, forefather, grandfather, parent, primogenitor, progenitor1.
to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in
SYNONIMS:
get, master, pick upRELATED WORDS:
apprehend, comprehend, grasp, know, understand; absorb, assimilate, digest, drink (in), imbibe; ascertain, descry, detect, determine, dig up, discern, discover, examine, find out, hear, hit (on upon), run down, scare up, search (for), see, track (down), tumble (to), unearth; major (in), study; memorizeNEAR ANTONYMS:
forget; misunderstand; miss, overlook; disregard, ignore, neglect2.
to become affected with (a disease or disorder)
SYNONIMS:
catch, come down (with), get, go down (with), sicken (with), takeRELATED WORDS:
break out (with); die (from), succumb (to); fail, languish, sink, waste (away), weaken, wilt, wither, worsenNEAR ANTONYMS:
come back, gain, heal, mend, recoup, recover, recuperate, snap back; rally, rebound, recover (from), shake (off)3.
to become the father of
SYNONIMS:
beget, get, sireRELATED WORDS:
multiply, procreate, propagate, reproduce, spawn; bear, engender, gender, generate, produce4.
to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest requests
SYNONIMS:
argue, bring, bring around, convert, convince, gain, get, induce, move, prevail (on upon), satisfy, talk (into), win (over)RELATED WORDS:
blandish, blarney, cajole, coax, entreat, exhort, fast-talk, urge, wheedle; allure, beguile, lead on, lure, seduce, snow, tempt; brainwash, overpersuade; incline, influence, move, prompt, sell, sway; attract, draw, entice, interest; chew over, converse, debate, discuss, dispute, hash (over), moot; reason (with)NEAR ANTONYMS:
deter, discourage, dissuade, unsell5.
to come upon after searching, study, or effort
SYNONIMS:
ascertain, descry, detect, determine, dig out, dig up, discover, dredge (up), ferret (out), find out, get, hit (on upon), hunt (down up), learn, locate, nose out, root (out), rout (out), rummage, run down, scare up, scout (up), track (down), turn upRELATED WORDS:
espy, sight, spot; look for, search (for out), seekNEAR ANTONYMS:
lose, mislay, misplace, misset6.
to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts
SYNONIMS:
aggravate, annoy, bother, bug, burn (up), chafe, eat, exasperate, frost, gall, get, grate, gripe, hack (off), irk, itch, nark, nettle, peeve, persecute, pique, put out, rasp, rile, ruffle, spite, vexRELATED WORDS:
hassle, heckle; nag; inflame ( enflame), provoke, rouse; badger, bait, bullyrag ( ballyrag), devil, hagride, harass, harry, pester, plague, tease; anger, antagonize, enrage, incense, infuriate, madden, rankle, roil; agitate, discomfort, discompose, disquiet, distress, exercise, freak (out), fret, perturb, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, worry; affront, insult, miff, offend, outrageNEAR ANTONYMS:
appease, conciliate, mollify, oblige, pacify, placate, propitiate; delight, gladden, gratify, please, satisfy; assure, cheer, comfort, console, content, quiet, reassure, solace, soothe7.
to eventually have as a state or quality
SYNONIMS:
come, get, go, grow, run, turn, waxRELATED WORDS:
alter, change, metamorphose, modify, mutate, transfigure, transform, transmuteNEAR ANTONYMS:
abide, be, continue, linger, remain, stay8.
to receive as return for effort
SYNONIMS:
acquire, attain, bag, bring in, capture, carry, come by, draw, gain, garner, get, knock down, land, make, obtain, procure, pull down, realize, reap, secure, winRELATED WORDS:
clear, gross, net; accomplish, achieve, notch (up), score; accumulate, amass, draw, rack up; catch, pick up; annex, occupy, take over; reacquire, reattain, recapture, regain, remakeNEAR ANTONYMS:
accord, give, grant, pay; give up, hand over, part (with), relinquish, surrender, yield9.
to have a clear idea of
SYNONIMS:
appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, behold, catch, catch on (to), cognize, compass, conceive, cotton (to on to), decipher, decode, dig, discern, get, grasp, grok, intuit, know, make, make out, perceive, recognize, register, savvy, see, seize, sense, tumble (to), twig, understandRELATED WORDS:
absorb, digest, take in; realize; fathom, penetrate, pierceNEAR ANTONYMS:
misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misperceive, misread, mistake, misunderstand10.
to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly
SYNONIMS:
bag, capture, collar, cop, corral, get, glom, grab, grapple, hook, land, nab, nail, net, nobble, rap, seize, snag, snap (up), snare, snatch, trapRELATED WORDS:
glove, halter, lasso, rope; apprehend, arrest, detain; bay, corner; clasp, clutch, fasten (on), fist, grasp, grip, hold, latch (on onto), secure; rend, wrest; enmesh ( immesh), ensnare, entangle, entrap, mesh; abduct, kidnap, spirit (away off)NEAR ANTONYMS:
discharge, free, liberate, release; drop, loosen, unhand11.
to leave a place often for another
SYNONIMS:
bail, bail out, begone, book, bugger off, bug off, bug out, buzz (off), clear off, clear out, cut out, depart, dig out, exit, get, get off, go off, move, pack (up off), part, peel off, pike (out off), pull out, push off, push on, quit, run along, sally (forth), scarper, shove (off), step (along), take off, vamoose, walk outRELATED WORDS:
set out, start, strike out; abscond, decamp, escape, evacuate, flee, fly, get out, mizzle [], run away, scat, scram, skip; go out, light out, step out; abandon, desert, forsake, vacate; emigrate; adjourn, remove, retire, retreat, withdrawNEAR ANTONYMS:
abide, dwell, lodge, remain, settle, stay, tarry; approach, close, near; hit, land, reach12.
to achieve a victory over
SYNONIMS:
best, conquer, defeat, dispatch, do down, get, get around, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), skunk, stop, subdue, surmount, take, trim, triumph (over), upend, win (against), worstRELATED WORDS:
sweep; edge (out), nose out, pip []; annihilate, blow away, blow out, bomb, break, bury, clobber, cream, crush, drub, finish, flatten, overwhelm, rout, shellac, skin, slaughter, smoke [], snow under, thrash, trounce, upset, wallop, wax [], whip; cap, excel, flourish, score, succeed; knock off, knock over, overpower, overthrow, subjugate, unseat, vanquish; ace (out), better, eclipse, exceed, excel, outdistance, outdo, outfight, outshine, outstrip, overtop, surpass, top, transcendNEAR ANTONYMS:
fall, give up, go down, go under; collapse, fail, flop, flunk, fold, wash out13.
to transmit information or requests to
SYNONIMS:
address, communicate (with), get, reachRELATED WORDS:
get through (to); acquaint, advise, apprise, brief, clue, enlighten, familiarize, fill in, inform, instruct, notify, tell, wise (up); buzz, call, phone, ring (up) [], telephone; keep up (with)14.
to put to death deliberately
SYNONIMS:
assassinate, bump off, croak, dispatch, do in, execute, get, ice, knock off, liquidate, neutralize, off, put away, rub out, slay, snuff, take out, terminate, whackRELATED WORDS:
blow away, shoot, shoot down; blot out, carry off, claim, cut down, destroy, fell, kill, smite, zap; butcher, massacre, mow (down), slaughter; annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, exterminate, wipe outNEAR ANTONYMS:
animate, raise, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revive15.
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty
SYNONIMS:
addle, baffle, bamboozle, beat, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, buffalo, confound, discombobulate, disorient, flummox, fox, fuddle, get, gravel, maze, muddle, muddy, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, vexRELATED WORDS:
stick, stump, weird out; abash, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, embarrass, faze, fluster, mortify, nonplus, rattle; agitate, bother, chagrin, discomfort, discompose, dismay, disquiet, distress, disturb, perturb, stun, unhinge, unsettle, upset; beguile, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fool, gull, hoax, hoodwink, humbug, misguide, mislead, snow, string along, take in, trickNEAR ANTONYMS:
assure, reassure, satisfy; enlighten, inform