get
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～ move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you driving at?"
get around
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～ be a social swinger; socialize a lot
get away
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～ run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"
get
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～ attract and fix; "His look caught her"; "She caught his eye"; "Catch the attention of the waiter"
get ahead
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～ obtain advantages, such as points, etc.; "The home team was gaining ground"; "After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference"; "win points"
get
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～ 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 intentions"
get
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～ irritate; "Her childish behavior really get to me"; "His lying really gets me"
get around
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～ avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass these rules!"
get
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～ grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; "did you catch that allusion?"; "We caught something of his theory in the lecture"; "don't catch your meaning"; "did you get it?"; "She didn't get the joke"; "I just don't get him"
get at
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～ cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
get away
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～ escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
get
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～ come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts"
get
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～ achieve a point or goal; "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day"
get
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～ take vengeance on or get even; "We'll get them!"; "That'll fix him good!"; "This time I got him"
get along
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～ develop in a positive way; "He progressed well in school"; "My plants are coming along"; "Plans are shaping up"
get
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～ evoke an emotional response; "Brahms's `Requiem' gets me every time"
get
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～ reach and board; "She got the bus just as it was leaving"
get away
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～ remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"
get
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～ apprehend and reproduce accurately; "She really caught the spirit of the place in her drawings"; "She got the mood just right in her photographs"