Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows
or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps
Verb: get through  get throo
  1. Finish a task completely
    "I finally got through this homework assignment";
    - wrap up [informal], finish off, mop up, polish off [informal], finish up
     
  2. Succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems
    "We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister";
    - come through
     
  3. Be in or establish communication with
    "I finally got through to the customer service department";
    - reach, get hold of, contact
     
  4. Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
    "The meaning of the poem finally got through";
    - click, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place
     
  5. Spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time
    "We got through the rainy day playing board games";
    - while away, while
     
  6. Use up or consume entirely
    "We got through all the food in one day"

Derived forms: gets through, getting through, got through

Type of: arrive at, attain, communicate, complete, finish, gain, hit, intercommunicate, make, pass, reach, realise [Brit], realize, see, spend, understand