1. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
   "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work";
   - acquire
    
2. Enter or assume a certain state or condition
   "It must be getting more serious"; "Get going!";
   - become, go
    
3. Cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
   "He got his squad on the ball"; "He got a girl into trouble";
   - let, have
    
4. Reach a destination by movement or progress
   "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight";
   - arrive, come
    
5. Achieve a point or goal
   "The Brazilian team got 4 goals";
   - have, make
    
6. Bring about an action, state, or response
   "My children finally got me to buy a computer";
   - induce, stimulate, cause, have, make
    
7. Go or come after and bring or take back
   "Get me those books over there, please";
   - bring, fetch
    
8. Go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
   "get an idea"; "get nauseous";
   - experience, receive, have
    
9. Take vengeance on or get even
   "We'll get them!"; "This time I got him";
   - pay back, pay off, fix [informal]
    
10. Be subject to a specified treatment or analysis
    "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions";
    - receive, find, obtain
     
11. Acquire as a result of some effort or action
    "You cannot get water out of a stone"; "Where did she get The news?"
     
12. Purchase
    "What did you get at the toy store?"
     
13. Grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
    "did you get it?"; "She didn't get the joke"; "I just don't get him";
    - catch
     
14. Succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
    "We finally got the suspect";
    - catch, capture
     
15. Communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
    "Bill called this number and he got Mary"; "The operator couldn't get Kobe because of the earthquake"
     
16. Perceive by hearing
    "She didn't get his name when they met the first time";
    - catch
     
17. Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
    "He got AIDS";
    - contract, take
     
18. Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
    "I got funny spots all over my body";
    - grow, develop, produce, acquire
     
19. Give certain properties to something
    "get someone mad";
    - make
     
20. Move into a desired direction of discourse
    "What are you getting at?";
    - drive, aim
     
21. Attract and fix
    "His look got her";
    - catch, arrest
     
22. Reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
    "The blow got him in the back";
    - catch
     
23. Reach by calculation
    "What do you get when you add up these numbers?"
     
24. Suffer from the receipt of
    "She will get hell for this behaviour!";
    - catch
     
25. Receive as a retribution or punishment
    "He got 5 years in prison";
    - receive
     
26. Reach and board
    "She got the bus just as it was leaving"
     
27. Irritate or annoy, esp. persistently
    "Her childish behaviour really gets to me"; "His lying really gets me";
    - get under one's skin
     
28. Evoke an emotional response
    "Brahms's ‘Requiem’ gets me every time"
     
29. Apprehend and reproduce accurately
    "She got the mood just right in her photographs";
    - catch
     
30. (baseball) earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
    "The batter got to first base on four balls";
    - draw
     
31. Overcome or destroy
    "The ice storm got my hibiscus"; "the cat got the goldfish"
     
32. Confuse or leave at a loss because of something complex or difficult to understand
    "Got me — I don't know the answer!";
    - confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate [informal], perplex, vex, stick, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, dumbfound
     
33. Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
    "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "Let's get down to work now";
    - get down, begin, start out, start, set about, set out
     
34. Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
    "She got a bruise on her leg"; "He got his arm broken in the scuffle";
    - suffer, sustain, have

1. A return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
   "His incredible get saved the match point"

Derived forms: gets, gotten, getting

See also: make up

Type of: ache, act, affect, alter, annoy, arrive at, attain, attract, bear on, bear upon, bother, buy, catch, chafe [archaic], change, change state, channel, channelise [Brit], channelize, clutch, come down, communicate, destroy, devil, draw, draw in, effect, effectuate, even up, experience, gain, get at [informal], get back, get even, get to, gravel [US], have, hear, hit, hurt, impact, intend, intercommunicate, irritate, make, mean, modify, move, nark [Brit, slang], nettle, prehend [archaic], pull, pull in, purchase, rack up, rag, reach, receive, reproduce, return, rile, roil [N. Amer], ruin, score, seize, set up, sicken, stir, suffer, take hold, take hold of, tally, tick off [informal], touch, transfer, transmit, turn, undergo, understand, vex

Encyclopedia: Get