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1 I got the impression he didn't like me | where did you get that hat?:
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;
informal get one's hands on, get one's mitts on, get hold of, grab, bag, score, swing, nab, collar, cop.
▷antonyms give.
2 I was glad to get your letter:
receive, be sent, be in receipt of, accept delivery of, be given.
▷antonyms send.
4 I'll get the children from school:
fetch, collect, go for, call for, pick up, bring, carry, deliver, convey, ferry, transport;
escort, conduct, lead, usher.
▷antonyms take; leave.
5 the chairman gets $650,000 a year:
earn, be paid, receive a salary of, take home, take home earnings of, bring in, make, receive, collect, clear, gross;
informal pocket, bank, rake in, pull in, haul in, net, bag.
6 have the police got their man?:
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;
informal collar, grab, nab, nail, run in, bust, pick up, pull in, haul in, do, feel someone's collar;
British, informal pinch, nick.
7 I got a taxi in the end:
travel by/on/in, journey by/on/in;
take, catch, use, make use of, utilize.
8 one winter she got flu:
succumb to, develop, go/come down with, sicken for, fall victim to, be struck down with, be stricken with, be afflicted by/with, be smitten by/with;
become infected with/by, catch, contract, become ill/sick with, fall ill/sick with, be taken ill with, show symptoms of;
British go down with;
informal take ill with;
North American, informal take sick with.
9 I got a sharp pain in my right arm:
experience, suffer, be afflicted with, undergo, sustain, feel, have.
10 I could get him on the radio and ask:
contact, get in touch with, communicate with, make contact with, reach, be in communication with;
phone, call, radio, speak to, talk to;
British get on to, ring up;
informal get hold of.
11 I didn't get what he said:
hear, recognize, discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, perceive, follow, keep up with, take in.
12 sorry, I don't get the joke:
understand, comprehend, grasp, see, take in, fathom, follow, puzzle out, work out, perceive, apprehend, get to the bottom of, unravel, decipher;
informal get the drift of, catch onto, latch onto, make head or tail of, figure out, get the picture, get the message;
British, informal twig, suss out, suss.
13 we got there early:
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;
informal show up, show, roll in, roll up, blow in, show one's face.
14 we got her to go:
persuade, induce, prevail on, influence, talk around;
wheedle into, talk into, cajole into, inveigle into;
win over, bring around, sway.
15 I'd like to get to meet him sometime:
contrive, arrange, find a way, engineer a way, manage;
succeed in, organize;
informal work it, fix it;
archaic compass.
16 I'll get supper if you wash up afterwards:
prepare, get ready, cook, make, put together, assemble, muster, dish up, concoct;
informal fix, rustle up;
British, informal knock up.
17 informal I'll get him for that:
take revenge on, be revenged on, exact/wreak revenge on, get one's revenge on, avenge oneself on, take vengeance on, get even with, settle a/the score with, pay back, pay out, retaliate on/against, get back at, take reprisals against, exact retribution on, give someone their just deserts, give someone a dose/taste of their own medicine;
give/return like for like, give tit for tat, take an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth);
informal give someone their comeuppance;
British, informal get one's own back on.
18 He scratched his head. “You've got me there.”:
baffle, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, bewilder, mystify, bemuse, confuse, confound, disconcert, throw, set someone thinking;
informal flummox, discombobulate, faze, stump, beat, fox, make someone scratch their head, floor, fog;
archaic wilder, gravel, maze, cause to be at a stand, pose.
19 what gets me is how neurotic she is:
annoy, irritate, exasperate, anger, irk, vex, inflame, put out, nettle, needle, provoke, incense, infuriate, madden, rub up the wrong way, try someone's patience, make someone's blood boil, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, get someone's hackles up, rattle someone's cage;
informal aggravate, peeve, miff, rile, get to, hack off, get someone's back up, get on someone's nerves, get under someone's skin, get someone's goat, get someone's dander up, get in someone's hair, be a thorn in someone's flesh, drive mad, drive crazy, drive nuts, make someone see red;
British, informal wind up, nark, get across, get someone's wick, give someone the hump, get up someone's nose;
North American, informal tee off, tick off, eat, burn up;
vulgar slang piss off;
British, vulgar slang get on someone's tits.
□ get something across□ get ahead□ get along□ get around□ get away with□ get back□ get something back□ get back at□ get back to□ get by□ get someone down□ get down to□ get off□ get on□ get over□ get together□ get up□ get someone up
people with ideas and the desire to get ahead:
prosper, flourish, thrive, do well, get on well;
succeed, be successful, make it, do all right for oneself, progress, make progress, make headway, advance, get on in the world, rise in the world, go up in the world, fly high, make one's mark, make good, become rich, strike gold/oil, be in clover;
informal go places, get somewhere, go great guns, make the big time.
3 her hope was that by convincing her mother to allow her to go, she would thus get around her father:
□ get atcajole, persuade, wheedle, coax, maneuver, prevail on, win someone over, bring someone around, sway, beguile, blarney, flatter, seduce, lure, entice, charm, tempt, inveigle, induce, influence, woo;
talk into;
informal sweet-talk, soft-soap, butter up, twist someone's arm;
archaic blandish.
1 it's difficult to get at the timbers once you have insulated:
access, gain access to, get to, reach, touch.
2 he had been got at by government officials:
□ get awaycorrupt, suborn, influence, bribe, buy off, pay off;
informal give someone a backhander, give someone a sweetener, grease someone's palm, fix, square;
British, informal nobble.
the prisoners got away:
escape, run away, run off, get out, break out, break/get free, break loose, make a break for it, bolt, flee, fly, take flight, make off, take off, decamp, abscond, take to one's heels, make a/one's escape, make good one's escape, make a/one's getaway, beat a hasty retreat, show a clean pair of heels, run for it, make a run for it;
disappear, vanish, slip away, steal away, sneak away;
get out of someone's clutches;
informal do a bunk, do a moonlight flit, cut and run, skedaddle, skip, head for the hills, do a disappearing/vanishing act, fly the coop, take French leave, vamoose, hightail it;
British, informal do a runner, hook it, scarper, leg it;
North American, informal take a powder, go on the lam.
she made the story up to get back at the teacher for punishing her:
take revenge on, be revenged on, exact/wreak revenge on, get one's revenge on, avenge oneself on, take vengeance on, get even with, settle a/the score with, pay back, pay out, retaliate on/against, take reprisals against, exact retribution on, let someone see how it feels, give someone their just deserts, give someone a dose/taste of their own medicine, give as good as one gets;
give/return like for like, give tit for tat, take an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth);
informal get, give someone their comeuppance;
British, informal get one's own back on.
▷antonyms forgive.
he had just enough money to get by:
manage, cope, survive, exist, subsist, muddle through/along, scrape by/along/through, make ends meet, get on, get along, make do, barely/scarcely have enough to live on, keep the wolf from the door, keep one's head above water, scrimp, scrape a living;
informal make out.
sometimes I can laugh it off but inside it gets me down:
depress, make sad, sadden, make unhappy, cast down, make gloomy, make despondent, dispirit;
dampen/break someone's spirit, dash someone's hopes, dishearten, demoralize, discourage, daunt, crush, shake, desolate, weigh down, weigh heavily on, hang over, oppress;
upset, distress, grieve, haunt, harrow, cause suffering to, break someone's heart, make one's heart bleed, bring tears to one's eyes;
informal give someone the blues, make someone fed up, knock the stuffing out of, knock for six, knock sideways.
▷antonyms cheer someone up.
1 we got on the train at Kinshasa:
board, enter, go on board, go aboard, step aboard, climb on, mount, ascend, embark, catch;
informal hop on, jump on;
formal emplane, entrain, embus.
▷antonyms get off.
2 how are you getting on?:
fare, manage, progress, advance, get along, do, cope, survive, muddle through/along;
succeed, prosper, flourish;
informal get by, make out.
3 he just got on with his job:
continue, proceed, go ahead, carry on, go on, keep on, press on, push on, press ahead, persist, persevere;
keep at;
informal stick with/at, soldier on with.
▷antonyms give up.
4 my father and I don't get on:
□ get outbe friendly, be on friendly terms, be in harmony, be compatible, get along, feel a rapport;
agree, see eye to eye, concur, be in agreement, be in accord, be in sympathy, sympathize, be united, be as one man, accord;
be of the same mind/opinion (as);
informal hit it off, be on the same wavelength (as).
1 several prisoners had got out:
escape, break out, break free, get free, break loose, make a break for it, bolt, clear out, run away, run off, get away, flee, fly, take flight, make off, take off, decamp, abscond, take to one's heels, make a/one's escape, make good one's escape, make a/one's getaway, beat a hasty retreat, show a clean pair of heels, run for it, make a run for it;
disappear, vanish, slip away, steal away, sneak away;
get out of someone's clutches;
informal bust, do a bunk, do a moonlight flit, cut and run, skedaddle, skip, head for the hills, do a disappearing/vanishing act, fly the coop, take French leave, vamoose, hightail it;
British, informal do a runner, hook it, scarper, leg it;
North American, informal take a powder, go on the lam.
2 the news has got out:
□ get out ofbecome known, become common knowledge, become apparent, come to light, emerge, transpire, materialize, prove to be the case;
come out, be discovered, be uncovered, be made public, be revealed, be divulged, be disclosed, be reported, be publicized, be released, leak out;
literary be noised about/abroad.
he tried to get out of paying the survivors any compensation:
evade, dodge, shirk, slide out of, avoid, escape, sidestep;
informal duck, duck out of, wriggle out of, cop out of;
British, informal skive off, funk;
North American, informal cut;
Australian, New Zealand, informal duck-shove;
archaic decline.
▷antonyms agree to.
1 I have only just got over flu:
recover from, recuperate from, get better after, pull through, shrug off, survive, come around from.
▷antonyms sicken for.
2 to get over this problem the architect angled the exit into the piazza slightly:
□ get something over□ get aroundovercome, surmount, prevail over, triumph over, get the better of, master;
get around, circumvent, find an/the answer to, find a/the solution to;
sort out, take care of, resolve, solve, crack;
deal with, cope with;
informal lick.
1 he got around his mother and she bought it for him:
□ get throughcajole, persuade, wheedle, coax, maneuver, prevail on, win someone over, bring someone around, sway, beguile, blarney, flatter, seduce, lure, entice, charm, tempt, inveigle, induce, influence, woo;
talk into;
informal sweet-talk, soft-soap, butter up, twist someone's arm;
archaic blandish.
1 I managed to get through the audition and land the job:
pass, be successful in, succeed in, gain a pass in, come through, meet the requirements of, pass muster in;
informal come up to scratch in, come up to snuff in, sail through, scrape through.
▷antonyms fail.
2 how did we get through a pack of twelve so fast?:
□ get toinformal consume, go through, use, exhaust, deplete, expend, spend, waste, fritter away, squander, dissipate.
what really got to me was the lack of respect:
irritate, annoy, anger, vex, irk, nettle, pique, exasperate, infuriate, get on someone's nerves, rub up the wrong way, get/put someone's back up, ruffle someone's feathers, try someone's patience;
goad, provoke, bait, taunt, pester, harass, prick, prod, sting;
informal aggravate, rile, niggle, hassle, bug, miff, peeve, get under someone's skin, hack off;
British, informal wind up, get at, nark, get across, get up someone's nose;
North American, informal ride;
vulgar slang piss off;
rare exacerbate, hump, rasp.