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GET BACK
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
Example:
I finally settled with my old enemy
Synonyms:
get back; settle
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "get back" is one way to...):
contend; fight; struggle (be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost
Example:
He got back his son from the kidnappers
Synonyms:
get back; win back
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "get back" is one way to...):
acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 3
Meaning:
Take revenge or even out a score
Example:
I cannot accept the defeat--I want to get even
Synonyms:
get back; get even
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "get back" is one way to...):
avenge; retaliate; revenge (take revenge for a perceived wrong)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get back"):
fix; get; pay back; pay off (take vengeance on or get even)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
When we get back to Dawson she ask me to buy good revolver for her. I buy a Colt's 44. It is very heavy, but she carry it in her belt all the time.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I do not exactly know the distance, but when you get back to Portsmouth, if it is not very far off, you ought to go over and pay your respects to them; and I could send a little parcel by you that I want to get conveyed to your cousins.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
“And I shall not go so far but what I can get back before night. Yes, all said and done, I think it vastly better for you to remain, and sleep, and rest and do nothing.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
By reducing the need for medications that come with serious side effects or intravenous therapies that may require hospital stays, children don't have to miss as much school and can get back to being a kid sooner.
(Innovative Treatment Offers Relief to Children with Frequent Migraine Headaches, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It was so late that I could not get back to Blackheath, so I spent the night at the Anerley Arms, and I knew nothing more until I read of this horrible affair in the morning.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He stopped at Highbury, at the Bates's, I fancy, some time—and then came on hither; but was in such a hurry to get back to his uncle, to whom he is just now more necessary than ever, that, as I tell you, he could stay with us but a quarter of an hour.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Dorothy's life became very sad as she grew to understand that it would be harder than ever to get back to Kansas and Aunt Em again.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
We must never go so far that we can't get back to our base.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you open your mouth when you get back to Dawson, I'll have you run out of town. Understand?
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I understand that you give me carte blanche to act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you place no limit on the sum I may draw.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
