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Definition of Get to

1. Verb. Reach a goal, e.g.,. "She may not make the grade"

2. Verb. Arrive at the point of. "She gets to fretting if I stay away from home too long"

3. Verb. Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations. "The performance is likely to get to Sue"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"

Definition of Get to

1. Verb. (&lit get to) ¹

2. Verb. To affect adversely; to upset or annoy. ¹

3. Verb. To track down and intimidate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Get To

get the jump get the knack get the lead out get the memo get the picture get the point get the sack get the time get the vapors get the wind up

get there get this show on the road get through get through to get tied up get to (current term) get to grips get to grips with get to know get to one's feet

get to the bottom of get to the point get together get turned around get under one's skin get under someone's skin get underway get up get up on the wrong side of the bed get up someone's nose

Literary usage of Get to

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

1. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"What it will get to when 1 shall have crossed the Tweed, God only knows. I wish very much that I could stop a day at Berwick, in order to find some ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"I was one of the first to get to the fire. When I reached the store the fire was burning a little on the outside, just opposite the barber chair. ..."

3. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1908)
"They will leave anything else you give them! to get to alfalfa. ... You can't give them anything else that they won't leave to get to alfalfa. ..."

4. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1900)
"CHAPTER XXI How King Pelleas suffered himself to be taken prisoner because he would have a sight of his lady, and how Sir Gawaine promised him to get to him ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"Valentine went to find a way to the water, but did not get to it. 8th.—Our fresh meat is getting very short, and if we do not soon get a bear, we must start ..."

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