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GETTING

• Go away
• Baffle (someone)
• Come to have or hold (something); receive
• Experience, suffer, or be afflicted with (something bad)
• Receive as a punishment or penalty
• Contract (a disease or ailment)
• Receive (a communication)
• Used with a past participle to form the passive mood
• Cause to be treated in a specified way
• Induce or prevail upon (someone) to do something
• Have the opportunity to do
• Begin to be or do something, esp. gradually or by chance
• Come, go, or make progress eventually or with some difficulty
• Move or come into a specified position, situation, or state
• Succeed in making (someone or something) come, go, or make progress
• Reach a specified point or stage
• Catch or apprehend (someone)
• Strike or wound (someone) with a blow or missile
• Punish, injure, or kill (someone), esp. as retribution
• Be punished, injured, or killed
• Be killed or appropriately punished or rewarded
• Annoy or amuse (someone) greatly
• Understand (an argument or the person making it)
• Acquire (knowledge) by study; learn
• Succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain
• Move in order to pick up or bring (something); fetch
• Tend to meet with or find in a specified place or situation
• Travel by or catch (a bus, train, or other form of transport)
• Obtain (a figure or answer) as a result of calculation
• Respond to a ring of (a telephone or doorbell) or the knock on (a door)
• Said as an invitation to notice or look at someone, esp. to criticize or ridicule them
• Enter or reach a specified state or condition; become
• a gaining [n -S]

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