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Definition & Synonyms
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• Get
- (n.) Artifice; contrivance.
- (v. t.) Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.
- (v. i.) To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.
- (v. t.) To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.
- (v. t.) To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.
- (v. t.) To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.
- (v. i.) To arrive at, or bring ones self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected.
- (n.) Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.
- (n.) Fashion; manner; custom.
- (v. t.) To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.
- (n.) Jet, the mineral.
- (v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to generate.
- (v. t.) To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out ones Greek lesson.
Synonyms:
Acquire, Aim, Amaze, Arrest, Arrive, Baffle, Beat, Become, Beget, Begin, Bewilder, Bring, Can, Capture, Catch, Cause, Come, Commence, Contract, Convey, Develop, Draw, Drive, Engender, Experience, Father, fetch, Find, Fix, Generate, Go, Gravel, Grow, Have, Incur, Induce, Let, Make, May, Mother, Mystify, Nonplus, Obtain, Perplex, Pose, Produce, Puzzle, Receive, Sire, Start, Stimulate, Stupefy, Suffer, Sustain, Take, Undergo, Vex,
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• Geten
- () p. p. of Get.
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• Get-penny
- (n.) Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair.
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Covalents, Cove, Hazy, Appropriate, Coval, Joy Rides, Headcheese, Emulsify, Cognizant, Berate, Larkspur, Cognizably, Polite, Cognate, Headband, Cognacs, Sinister, Cogitable, Coges, Belong, Coge, Gross, Cofuse, Hungry, Contradictory, Grain Sorghum, Headac, Coffin, Lipoid, Victoriou, Drawers, Head, |
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A, A1, Aquiline, Aardvark, Aardwolf, Abaca, Aback, Abacus, Abaft, Abalone, Abandon, Abandoned, Abandonment, Abase, Abasement, Abash, Abashed, Abashment, Abate, Abatement, Abater, Abattoir, Abb, Abbacy, Abbess, Abbey, Abbot, Abbreviate, Abbreviation, Abdicate, Abdication, Abdomen, |
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