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get
verb as in come into possession of; achieve
Strongest matches
bring, draw, earn, gain, grab, have, land, make, obtain, pick up, pull, realize, receive, score, take, win
Strong matches
access, accomplish, acquire, annex, attain, bag, capture, clear, compass, cop, educe, effect, elicit, evoke, extort, extract, fetch, glean, hustle, inherit, net, parlay, procure, reap, secure, snag, snowball, wangle
Weak matches
bring in, build up, buy into, buy off, buy out, cash in on, chalk up, clean up, come by, get hands on, lock up, make a buy, make a killing, rack up, snap up, succeed to
verb as in fall victim to, as a diseases
Strongest match
Weak matches
be afflicted with, be given, be smitten by, become infected with, come down with, get sick
verb as in seize
verb as in come to be
verb as in understand
verb as in arrive
verb as in contact for communication
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Weak match
verb as in arrange, manage desired goal
verb as in convince, induce
verb as in have an effect on
verb as in produce offspring
verb as in irritate, upset
Example Sentences
In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?
The kids are out of school, Mom is out of get-up-and-go, Dad is out of work.
But while Yariv and Nakarin have had plenty of their friends over for dinner, this is no regular get-together.
So it's really a take-what-you-can-get kind of situation with him.
And so I knew from the get-go that they would have to add action, which they have.
The man called Shiv was driving Delancy's get-away car at a conservative pace so as not to excite suspicion.
Ten minutes later, Delancy drove the get-away car out of the service station.
It was in this room that Delancy's get-away car had changed paint jobs, and in about ten minutes.
But the exquisite was used to it; he would only have felt badly if they had ignored his new get-up.
There was some sort of a phonograph device under the cowl of that get-away car, and this was hooked up to the radio switch.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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