get
get is a 3-letter English word with 50 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Jet, the mineral. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. Jet, the mineral.
- noun. Fashion; manner; custom.
- noun. Artifice; contrivance.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.
- transitive verb. To beget; to procreate; to generate.
- transitive verb. 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 one's Greek lesson.
- transitive verb. To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.
- transitive verb. To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.
- transitive verb. To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.
- intransitive verb. To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.
- intransitive verb. To arrive at, or bring one's 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.
- noun. Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.
- noun. a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
- verb. make children
"Abraham begot Isaac"
"Men often father children but don't recognize them"
- verb. undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
"She suffered a fracture in the accident"
"He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"
- verb. be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
"He got AIDS"
"She came down with pneumonia"
- verb. come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
"He grew a beard"
"The patient developed abdominal pains"
- verb. give certain properties to something
"get someone mad"
"She made us look silly"
- verb. cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
"He got his squad on the ball"
"This let me in for a big surprise"
- verb. enter or assume a certain state or condition
"He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"
"It must be getting more serious"
- verb. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
"We began working at dawn"
"Who will start?"
- verb. receive a specified treatment (abstract)
"These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"
"His movie received a good review"
- verb. grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
"did you catch that allusion?"
"We caught something of his theory in the lecture"
- verb. be a mystery or bewildering to
"This beats me!"
"Got me--I don't know the answer!"
- verb. reach by calculation
"What do you get when you add up these numbers?"
- verb. cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
"The ads induced me to buy a VCR"
"My children finally got me to buy a computer"
- verb. move into a desired direction of discourse
"What are you driving at?"
- verb. 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"
- verb. take vengeance on or get even
"We'll get them!"
"That'll fix him good!"
- verb. succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
"We finally got the suspect"
"Did you catch the thief?"
- verb. reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
"the rock caught her in the back of the head"
"The blow got him in the back"
- verb. go or come after and bring or take back
"Get me those books over there, please"
"Could you bring the wine?"
- verb. attract and fix
"His look caught her"
"She caught his eye"
- verb. overcome or destroy
"The ice storm got my hibiscus"
"the cat got the goldfish"
- verb. earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
"He drew a base on balls"
- verb. apprehend and reproduce accurately
"She really caught the spirit of the place in her drawings"
"She got the mood just right in her photographs"
- verb. evoke an emotional response
"Brahms's `Requiem' gets me every time"
- verb. irritate
"Her childish behavior really get to me"
"His lying really gets me"
- verb. reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
"She arrived home at 7 o'clock"
"She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"
- verb. reach and board
"She got the bus just as it was leaving"
- verb. leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
"Scram!"
- verb. go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
"get an idea"
"experience vertigo"
- verb. receive as a retribution or punishment
"He got 5 years in prison"
- verb. suffer from the receipt of
"She will catch hell for this behavior!"
- verb. perceive by hearing
"I didn't catch your name"
"She didn't get his name when they met the first time"
- verb. purchase
"What did you get at the toy store?"
- verb. come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
"She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"
"They acquired a new pet"
- verb. achieve a point or goal
"Nicklaus had a 70"
"The Brazilian team got 4 goals"
- verb. acquire as a result of some effort or action
"You cannot get water out of a stone"
"Where did she get these news?"
Synonyms
beget, engender, father, generate, mother, sire, have, suffer, sustain, contract, take, acquire, develop, grow, produce, make, let, become, go, begin, commence, start, find, incur
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in get:
Common word forms
gets, getter, getable, getting
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