get
verb (REACH) /ɡet/ (present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US gotten)Definition
A1 [I usually + adv/prep, T] to reach or arrive at a particular place: We hadn't even got as far as London when the car broke down. What time does he normally get home (from work)? If you get to the restaurant before us, just wait at the bar.Arriving, entering and invading › [I usually + adv/prep] to reach a particular stage, condition, or time: You earn loads if you get to the top in that profession. It got to Thursday and she still hadn't heard any news.informal I'm getting to the stage now where I just want to give up.Starting and beginningStarting again get far/somewhere/anywhere › to make progress or to improve: She's taking flute lessons, but she really doesn't seem to be getting anywhere with it. It's been hard settling in, but I feel I'm getting somewhere at last.Making progress and advancingBecoming better
(Definition of get verb (REACH) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Abstaining and refraining
- Acting and acts
- Avoiding action
- Becoming better
- Cancelling and interrupting
- Competing and contending (non-sporting)
- Coping and not coping
- Delaying and wasting time
- Describing the leading position
- Efficient and effective
- Expressions telling people to hurry up
- Failing and doing badly
- Failures
- Getting involved for one's own benefit or against others' will
- Hesitating
- Higher and lower points of achievement
- Hurrying and doing things quickly
- Making things better
- Performing a function
- Potential
- Reacting and responding
- Repeating an action
- Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- Success and achievements
- Successful (things or people)
- Surpassing in quality or number
- Taking part and getting involved
- Trying and making an effort
- Unsuccessful (people and things)
- Waiting
- Ways of achieving things
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Synonyms and related words:
- a step forward idiom
- advancement noun
- ahead adverb (IN FRONT)
- be cooking idiom
- betterment noun
- carry verb (DEVELOP)
- flower verb (DEVELOP)
- go great guns idiom
- graduate verb (PROGRESS)
- grow into sb/sth phrasal verb
- grow out of sth phrasal verb (IDEA)
- grow verb (INCREASE)
- have come a long way idiom
- mature verb (DEVELOP MENTALLY)
- rebuild verb
- regenerate verb (GROW)
- ripen verb
- rise noun (MOVEMENT UP)
- shape up phrasal verb
- simmer verb
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