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View synonyms for get back

get back

verb

  1. tr to recover or retrieve
  2. introften foll byto to return, esp to a former position or activity

    let's get back to the original question

  3. intrfoll byat to retaliate (against); wreak vengeance (on)
  4. get one's own back informal.
    to obtain one's revenge
“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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Manly stopped suddenly, then added briefly: “You cannot starve that part of you, Northrup, without a get-back some day.”

Before I co-could g-g-get back the b-b-boat got away from m-m-me.

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