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getting on (to)

verb , present participle of get on (to)

Synonyms and Antonyms of getting on (to)

to come to an awareness of

by the time the CIA got on to the terrorist plot, it was already in progress

Synonyms of getting on (to)

ascertaining, catching on (to), discovering, finding out, hearing, learning, realizing, seeing, wising (up)

Words Related to getting on (to)

hitting (on or upon), tumbling (to)

descrying, detecting, encountering, espying, seeing, spotting

calculating, doping (out), figuring out, finding, puzzling (out)

discerning, minding, noting, observing, perceiving

Phrases Synonymous with getting on (to)

getting wind of

Near Antonyms of getting on (to)

missing, overlooking

disregarding, ignoring

forgetting, unlearning

blanketing, blotting out, cloaking, concealing, covering, curtaining, enshrouding, hiding, masking, occulting, screening, shrouding, veiling

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