get out of sth

(STOP) — phrasal verb with get

/ɡet/ verb (present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US gotten)

Definition

› to give up or stop a habit or a regular activity: I must get out of the habit of finishing off people's sentences for them. If you get out of a routine, it's very hard to get back into it.Causing something to endComing to an end

(Definition of get out of sth (STOP) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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