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GET WELL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Improve in health

Example:

He got well fast

Synonyms:

bounce back; get over; get well

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "get well" is one way to...):

ameliorate; better; improve; meliorate (get better)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

get worse (deteriorate in health)

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 Context examples: 

Except to get well again, Dora.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You will repay me entirely if you do not discompose yourself, but get well as fast as you can; and since you appear in such good spirits, I may speak to you on one subject, may I not?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For a little while you will perhaps be as you are now,—a very little while; and then you will turn cool; and then you will be capricious; and then you will be stern, and I shall have much ado to please you: but when you get well used to me, you will perhaps like me again,—like me, I say, not love me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)