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- I'm not sure I ever got the new math
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- don't cough on me—I don't want to get your cold
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- catch,
- come down (with),
- contract,
- go down (with)
- [chiefly British],
- sicken (with),
- take
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- tried to get the mayor to let us stage the concert in the town square, but she refused
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- redid the math problem until I got the right answer
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- continuously clearing your throat like that is starting to get to me
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- agitate,
- discomfort,
- discompose,
- disquiet,
- distress,
- exercise,
- freak (out),
- fret,
- perturb,
- undo,
- unhinge,
- unsettle,
- upset,
- worry
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- it's going to get colder as winter approaches
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- got an A on his final paper
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- she was speaking so fast—did you get what she said?
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- appreciate,
- apprehend,
- assimilate,
- behold,
- catch,
- catch on (to),
- cognize,
- compass,
- comprehend,
- conceive,
- cotton (to or on to),
- decipher,
- decode,
- dig,
- discern,
- grasp,
- grok,
- intuit,
- know,
- make,
- make out,
- perceive,
- recognize,
- register,
- savvy,
- see,
- seize,
- sense,
- tumble (to),
- twig,
- understand
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- the defense tackled the running back and got the ball
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- will get away to the Bahamas for a vacation
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- bail,
- bail out,
- begone,
- book
- [slang],
- bug off,
- bug out,
- bugger off
- [British slang],
- buzz (off),
- clear off
- [chiefly British],
- clear out,
- cut out,
- depart,
- dig out,
- exit,
- get off,
- go,
- go off,
- move,
- pack (up or off),
- part,
- peel off,
- pike (out or off),
- pull out,
- push off,
- push on,
- quit,
- run along,
- sally (forth),
- scarper
- [British],
- shove (off),
- step (along),
- take off,
- vamoose,
- walk out
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- beat it,
- hit the road,
- pull stakes
- (or pull up stakes),
- take a hike
- (also take a walk),
- take a powder
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- you may have won this game, but I'll get you next time
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- I've been trying all day, but I can't get either of them in order to ask the question
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- "I'll get you if you talk to the cops," the loan shark warned
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- what gets me is why she would do such a weird thing
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nounSynonyms & Antonyms of get (Entry 2 of 2)
- in some animal species, a new mate will refuse to raise another male's get
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- ancestor,
- antecedent,
- father,
- forebear
- (also forbear),
- forebearer,
- forefather,
- grandfather,
- parent,
- primogenitor,
- progenitor
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“Get.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/get. Accessed 21 Feb. 2020.
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