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GET THROUGH
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Finish a task completely
Example:
I finally got through this homework assignment
Synonyms:
clear up; finish off; finish up; get through; mop up; polish off; wrap up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "get through" is one way to...):
complete; finish (come or bring to a finish or an end)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get through"):
cap off (finish or complete, as with some decisive action)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
Example:
she was penetrated with sorrow
Synonyms:
click; come home; dawn; fall into place; get across; get through; penetrate; sink in
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Cause:
understand (know and comprehend the nature or meaning of)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Be in or establish communication with
Example:
He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia
Synonyms:
contact; get hold of; get through; reach
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "get through" is one way to...):
communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get through"):
ping (send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active)
ping (contact, usually in order to remind of something)
raise (establish radio communications with)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sense 4
Meaning:
Succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems
Example:
We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister
Synonyms:
come through; get through
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "get through" is one way to...):
arrive at; attain; gain; hit; make; reach (reach a destination, either real or abstract)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 5
Meaning:
Spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time
Synonyms:
get through; while away
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "get through" is one way to...):
pass; spend (use up a period of time in a specific way)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
But in spite of gleams of sunshine, there was thunder in the air, and Champion Harrison had just whispered in my ear that he was quite sure that we should never get through the night without trouble, and was advising me, if it got very bad, to take refuge under the table, when the landlord entered the room hurriedly and handed a note to my uncle.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was several days before Willoughby's name was mentioned before Marianne by any of her family; Sir John and Mrs. Jennings, indeed, were not so nice; their witticisms added pain to many a painful hour;—but one evening, Mrs. Dashwood, accidentally taking up a volume of Shakespeare, exclaimed, We have never finished Hamlet, Marianne; our dear Willoughby went away before we could get through it.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
'Let us in, good Master Gourval!' cried Simon, and 'Let us in, good Master Gourval!' cried I, but no word could we get through the hole in the door, save that he would draw an arrow upon us unless we went on our way.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The advantage of his having to come only to Uppercross, instead of going six miles another way; of his having, in every respect, a better curacy; of his belonging to their dear Dr Shirley, and of dear, good Dr Shirley's being relieved from the duty which he could no longer get through without most injurious fatigue, had been a great deal, even to Louisa, but had been almost everything to Henrietta.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Pretend to believe him, and you may get through all right.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Besides, the best have to get through the hobbledehoy age, and that's the very time they need most patience and kindness.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I remember Miss Andrews could not get through the first volume.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
“The importance of the point struck me so forcibly that I sent a special wire to Dartmoor yesterday to clear the matter up. The boy locked the door before he left it. The window, I may add, was not large enough for a man to get through.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Even when I did get through the morning with tolerable credit, there was not much gained but dinner; for Miss Murdstone never could endure to see me untasked, and if I rashly made any show of being unemployed, called her brother's attention to me by saying, Clara, my dear, there's nothing like work—give your boy an exercise; which caused me to be clapped down to some new labour, there and then.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I am, I know, either being deceived, like a baby, by my own fears, or else I am in desperate straits; and if the latter be so, I need, and shall need, all my brains to get through.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
