Lexic.us

Definition of Get back

1. Verb. Recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost. "He got back his son from the kidnappers"

2. Verb. Take revenge or even out a score. "I cannot accept the defeat--I want to get even"

3. Verb. Get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury. "I finally settled with my old enemy"

Definition of Get back

1. Verb. (intransitive) Return to where one came from. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) to retrieve, to have an item returned. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) to do something to hurt or harm who has hurt or harmed you. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Get Back

get a wriggle on get about get across 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 (current term) get back at get back on the horse that bucked one get back to get behind get bent

get bent out of shape get better get blood from a stone get blood out of a stone get by get carried away get changed

Literary usage of Get back

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

1. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"I must get back." In three minutes the Vicar was on horseback again, having gone magnanimously through a duty much harder th»n the renunciation of whist, ..."

2. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"But to get back to Paris was not an easy matter. The Leloir stagecoach had just left; the Lecomte berlins would not be starting; the diligence from ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"I started to crank the car to get back in the road to see how bad it was torn up. ... I will sit on the fender of the machine and wait till you get back. ..."

4. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"They were obliged to get back again to the wreck before they could be taken off. Upon November the 29th, ..."

5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"The longer the inflation continues, the more difficult will it be for us to get back to the solid ground of specie payments, to which we must return sooner ..."

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