to get
Manage to acquire
To get is among the most flexible verbs in English, with meanings that radiate from a core sense of obtaining or coming to have.
You get a job, get an idea, get a cold.
From obtaining comes arriving: I got home late.
From arriving comes becoming: It's getting dark.
Get combines with countless particles to form phrasal verbs: get up, get over, get away with, get around to.
It substitutes for have in I've got three dollars and for understand in I don't get it.
The passive get signals a change of state: She got fired, They got married.
Few words do more work.
- obtainCome into possession of
- acquireGain possession of
- fetchGo get and return
- grabSeize abruptly
- receiveAccept something offered
catch · earn · gain · retrieve · snag · score · land · secure · understand · grasp · comprehend · arrive · reach · become · turn · grow · contract · seize
- infinitivesto be, to do, to go, to make, to take
- verbalsgerund, infinitive, participle, present participle, past participle