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Definition of Get across

1. Verb. Communicate successfully. "He put over the idea very well"

2. Verb. Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions. "She was penetrated with sorrow"

3. Verb. Travel across or pass over. "These men get across the river"; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"

Definition of Get across

1. Verb. (context: transitive intransitive) To cross; to move from one side (of something) to the other, literally or figuratively. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To make an idea evident; to successfully explain a thought or feeling. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Get Across

get a load get a load of get a look get a move on get a noseful get a rise get a rise from get a rise out of get a room get a whiff

get a wiggle on get a word in edgeways get a word in edgewise get a wriggle on get about get across (current term) get after get ahead get ahead of oneself get along

get along with get around get around to get at get away get away with get away with murder get back get back at

Literary usage of Get across

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1871)
"Now, how is he to get across that jungle and bring his artillery to the front, for the artillery cannot get across it as it is ? He must first make roads on ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"Now, then, I think I can get across. ( Makes her tint rush, but is arrested by a solemn procession of street-sweeping machines.) Oh, dear, dear ! ..."

3. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"... afraid I would not get across the rubbish in my cab without a pilot. They are all looking well, I think,—even Elizabeth. Many friendly inquiries about ..."

4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1903)
"As soon as we agreed, they came forward and, in a most friendly way, helped us to get across. Major Manifold's bedding fell off the rope in mid-stream, ..."

5. Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde: Accompanied by a Geographical and by Henry Pottinger (1816)
"THE SHIPS TKY TO get across THE BAR, BUT FAIL. DIVISION VI. HT^HE causes that led to the mission to the King of Persia in 1808,* •*• rendered a similar ..."

6. The Nucleation of the Uncontaminated Atmosphere by Carl Barus (1906)
"He answered : "I am going to be killed if I do not get across the water. I must get across, not so much on my own account ..."

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