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View synonyms for get down

get down

verb

  1. intr; also preposition to dismount or descend
  2. tr; also preposition to bring down

    we could not get the wardrobe down the stairs

  3. tr to write down
  4. tr to make depressed

    your nagging gets me down

  5. tr to swallow

    he couldn't get the meal down

  6. intrfoll byto to attend seriously (to); concentrate (on) (esp in the phrases get down to business or brass tacks )
  7. informal.
    intr to enjoy oneself uninhibitedly, esp by dancing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The first thing I do in the show is get down on my knees.

“I’m still gonna go to community jams. I’m still probably gonna get down and enter a community jam and things like that.”

He said neighbours had to move a car so the ambulance could get down the street.

From BBC

“So every phone call and door knock matters as we get down to the wire.”

In her victory speech, Badenoch told members it was "time to tell the truth” and “get down to business".

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