meaning of get
1. Jet, the mineral.
2. Fashion; manner; custom.
3. Artifice; contrivance.
4. To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.
5. Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.
6. To beget; to procreate; to generate.
7. To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out ones Greek lesson.
8. To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.
9. To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.
10. To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.
11. To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.
12. To arrive at, or bring ones self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected.
13. Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.
14. receive a specified treatment abstract; "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good
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Related Words
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