Definition of gets

"gets" in the noun sense

1. get

a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent

"gets" in the verb sense

1. get, acquire

come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

"She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"

"They acquired a new pet"

"Get your results the next day"

"Get permission to take a few days off from work"

2. become, go, get

enter or assume a certain state or condition

"He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"

"It must be getting more serious"

"her face went red with anger"

"She went into ecstasy"

"Get going!"

3. get, let, have

cause to move cause to be in a certain position or condition

"He got his squad on the ball"

"This let me in for a big surprise"

"He got a girl into trouble"

4. receive, get, find, obtain, incur

receive a specified treatment (abstract

"These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"

"His movie received a good review"

"I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"

5. arrive, get, come

reach a destination arrive by movement or progress

"She arrived home at 7 o'clock"

"She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"

6. bring, get, convey, fetch

go or come after and bring or take back

"Get me those books over there, please"

"Could you bring the wine?"

"The dog fetched the hat"

7. experience, receive, have, get

go through (mental or physical states or experiences

"get an idea"

"experience vertigo"

"get nauseous"

"receive injuries"

"have a feeling"

8. pay back, pay off, get, fix

take vengeance on or get even

"We'll get them!"

"That'll fix him good!"

"This time I got him"

9. have, get, make

achieve a point or goal

"Nicklaus had a 70"

"The Brazilian team got 4 goals"

"She made 29 points that day"

10. induce, stimulate, cause, have, get, make

cause to do cause to act in a specified manner

"The ads induced me to buy a VCR"

"My children finally got me to buy a computer"

"My wife made me buy a new sofa"

11. get, catch, capture

succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase

"We finally got the suspect"

"Did you catch the thief?"

12. grow, develop, produce, get, acquire

come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes

"He grew a beard"

"The patient developed abdominal pains"

"I got funny spots all over my body"

"Well-developed breasts"

13. contract, take, get

be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness

"He got AIDS"

"She came down with pneumonia"

"She took a chill"

14. get

communicate with a place or person establish communication with, as if by telephone

"Bill called this number and he got Mary"

"The operator couldn't get Kobe because of the earthquake"

15. make, get

give certain properties to something

"get someone mad"

"She made us look silly"

"He made a fool of himself at the meeting"

"Don't make this into a big deal"

"This invention will make you a millionaire"

"Make yourself clear"

16. drive, get, aim

move into a desired direction of discourse

"What are you driving at?"

17. catch, get

grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of

"did you catch that allusion?"

"We caught something of his theory in the lecture"

"don't catch your meaning"

"did you get it?"

"She didn't get the joke"

"I just don't get him"

18. catch, arrest, get

attract and fix

"His look caught her"

"She caught his eye"

"Catch the attention of the waiter"

19. get, catch

reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot

"the rock caught her in the back of the head"

"The blow got him in the back"

"The punch caught him in the stomach"

20. get

reach by calculation

"What do you get when you add up these numbers?"

21. get

acquire as a result of some effort or action

"You cannot get water out of a stone"

"Where did she get these news?"

22. get

purchase

"What did you get at the toy store?"

23. catch, get

perceive by hearing

"I didn't catch your name"

"She didn't get his name when they met the first time"

24. catch, get

suffer from the receipt of

"She will catch hell for this behavior!"

25. get, receive

receive as a retribution or punishment

"He got 5 years in prison"

26. scram, buzz off, fuck off, get, bugger off

leave immediately used usually in the imperative form

"Scram!"

27. get

reach and board

"She got the bus just as it was leaving"

28. get, get under one's skin

irritate

"Her childish behavior really get to me"

"His lying really gets me"

29. get

evoke an emotional response

"Brahms's `Requiem' gets me every time"

30. catch, get

apprehend and reproduce accurately

"She really caught the spirit of the place in her drawings"

"She got the mood just right in her photographs"

31. draw, get

earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher

"He drew a base on balls"

32. get

overcome or destroy

"The ice storm got my hibiscus"

"the cat got the goldfish"

33. perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound

be a mystery or bewildering to

"This beats me!"

"Got me

34. get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence

take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

"We began working at dawn"

"Who will start?"

"Get working as soon as the sun rises!"

"The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"

"He began early in the day"

"Let's get down to work now"

35. suffer, sustain, have, get

undergo (as of injuries and illnesses

"She suffered a fracture in the accident"

"He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"

"She got a bruise on her leg"

"He got his arm broken in the scuffle"

36. beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth

make (offspring) by reproduction

"Abraham begot Isaac"

"John fathered four daughters"

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Quotations for gets

Flattery gets favour. [ Proverb ]

The mill gets by going. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No merchant gets always. [ Proverb ]

A dumb man never gets land. [ Proverb ]

To be too busy gets contempt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The lame tongue gets nothing. [ Proverb ]

It gets late early out there. [ Yogi Berra, About the sun conditions in left field ]

A poor man gets a poor marriage. [ Proverb ]

Impatience never gets preferment. [ Proverb ]

An angler eats more than he gets. [ Proverb ]

Who loses his due gets no thanks. [ Proverb ]

Not God above gets all men's love. [ Proverb ]

And he who serves his brother best,
Gets nearer God than all the rest.

He that gets out of debt, grows rich. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A bad workman never gets a good tool. [ Proverb ]

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks. [ Proverb ]

He that loseth his due gets not thanks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wisdom not only gets, but, got, retains. [ Quarles ]

It is a silly bargain where nobody gets. [ Proverb ]

He gains enough who gets rid of a sorrow. [ French Proverb ]

No honest man gets an estate of a sudden. [ Proverb ]

God cures us, and the doctor gets the fee. [ German Proverb ]

A man has no more goods than he gets good by. [ Proverb ]

He's born in a good hour who gets a good name. [ Proverb ]

Biting and scratching gets the cat with kitten. [ Proverb ]

A man gets no thanks for what he loses at play. [ Proverb ]

Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in vain;
It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse. [ George Herbert ]

One pirate gets nothing of another but his cask. [ Proverb ]

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety. [ Fletcher ]

Likely lies in the mire, when unlikely gets over. [ Proverb ]

Till vice gets an habit, there is a remedy for it. [ Proverb ]

It is he who is in the wrong who first gets angry. [ William Penn ]

He that gets an estate will probably never spend it. [ Proverb ]

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts. [ Proverb ]

When every one gets his own, you will get the gallows. [ Proverb ]

Consideration gets as many victories as rashness loses. [ Proverb ]

A bad woman is the sort of woman a man never gets tired of. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Prosperity gets followers, but adversity distinguishes them. [ Proverb ]

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. [ Haliburton ]

Knowledge is like money, - the more a man gets, the more he craves. [ H.W. Shaw ]

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. [ Spurgeon ]

One gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves. [ Auerbach ]

He gets a double victory who overcomes himself, when he does his enemy. [ Proverb ]

Example is a hazardous lure: where the wasp gets through, the gnat sticks. [ La Fontaine ]

Man's activity is all too fain to relax; he soon gets fond of unconditional repose. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

In this country every one gets a mouthful of education, but scarcely any one a full meal. [ Theodore Parker ]

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. [ Cervantes ]

If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty. [ Horace ]

It may serve as a comfort to us in all our calamities and afflictions that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss. [ L'Estrange ]

The one advantage of playing with fire is that one never even gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it that get burned up. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock. [ Henry George ]

I think a good movie would be about a guy who's a brain scientist, but he gets hit on the head and it damages the part of the brain the makes you want to study the brain. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it. [ Lowell ]

The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets the notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance around his book-shelves. [ O. W. Holmes ]

The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it Axes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. [ Pascal ]

We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners. [ Whipple ]

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger? [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Music has certainly a powerful influence on the passions, and produces happy effects upon the human heart and mind when cultivated moderately; but when it becomes the general prevailing passion of a nation, or, as it were, gets dominion over them, it unquestionably produces not effeminacy merely, but a hateful depravity of manners. [ S. F. Bradford ]

In most old communities there is a commonsense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity. [ Whipple ]

gets in Scrabble®

The word gets is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters gets:

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gets in Words With Friends™

The word gets is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters gets:

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Words containing the sequence gets

Words that start with gets (1 word)

Words with gets in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving gets

Shorter words in gets

get

Longer words containing gets

begets

budgets fussbudgets

budgets rebudgets

budgets underbudgets

fidgets

forgets

gadgets

midgets

nuggets

pargets

targets nontargets

targets retargets

targets subtargets

widgets