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GET OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
Example:
I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities
Synonyms:
escape; get away; get by; get off; get out
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "get out" is one way to...):
avoid (stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get out"):
evade (use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be released or become known; of news
Example:
News of her death broke in the morning
Synonyms:
break; get around; get out
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Verb group:
break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get out"):
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Express with difficulty
Example:
I managed to get out a few words
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "get out" is one way to...):
say; state; tell (express in words)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 4
Meaning:
Take out of a container or enclosed space
Example:
Get out your best dress--we are going to a party!
Synonyms:
bring out; get out
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "get out" is one way to...):
take out; unpack (remove from its packing)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get out"):
winkle; winkle out (remove or displace from a position)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
Example:
The mugger pulled a knife on his victim
Synonyms:
draw; get out; pull; pull out; take out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "get out" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Verb group:
pull (take away)
draw out; extract; pull; pull out; pull up; rip out; take out; tear out (remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense)
draw; take out (take liquid out of a container or well)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get out"):
unsheathe (draw from a sheath or scabbard)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 6
Meaning:
Move out or away
Example:
The troops pulled out after the cease-fire
Synonyms:
get out; pull out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "get out" is one way to...):
go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)
Verb group:
back down; back off; bow out; chicken out; pull out (remove oneself from an obligation)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 7
Meaning:
Move out of or depart from
Example:
the fugitive has left the country
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "get out" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Verb group:
go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get out"):
depart; go; go away (move away from a place into another direction)
pop out (exit briefly)
file out (march out, in a file)
get off; hop out (get out of quickly)
fall out (leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation)
get off (leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.)
step out (go outside a room or building for a short period of time)
eject (leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule)
undock (move out of a dock)
log off; log out (exit a computer)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples:
Either the fear of the law or the Duke’s purse will certainly get out of them all that they know.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My expectations were wrong, for twice during the night I was wakened by Lucy trying to get out.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
"Any instrumentation you get out into the ocean, even if it is only the first 50 kilometers from shore, is very useful."
(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)
I was only too glad to get out of such a house.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I certainly can get out that way, and I will.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
We have nothing to do but wait for him at the bank, and get out the handbills.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
So thick was the throng that it was no easy matter to get out of the George.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"No sooner do we get out of one trouble than down comes another. There doesn't seem to be anything to hold on to when Mother's gone, so I'm all at sea."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
All I ask is your word, Cap'n Smollett, to let me safe and sound out of this here stockade, and one minute to get out o' shot before a gun is fired.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
"If ever we get out of this alive, I must have a head with me," said Lord John.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
