GET ACROSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does get across mean? 

• GET ACROSS (verb)
  The verb GET ACROSS has 3 senses:

1. communicate successfully

2. become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

3. travel across or pass over

  Familiarity information: GET ACROSS used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET ACROSS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Communicate successfully

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

get across; put over

Context example:

He put over the idea very well

Hypernyms (to "get across" is one way to...):

communicate; pass; pass along; pass on; put across (transmit information)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

click; come home; dawn; fall into place; get across; get through; penetrate; sink in

Context example:

she was penetrated with sorrow

Cause:

understand (know and comprehend the nature or meaning of)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Travel across or pass over

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse

Context example:

The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day

Hypernyms (to "get across" is one way to...):

pass (go across or through)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get across"):

tramp (cross on foot)

stride (cover or traverse by taking long steps)

walk (traverse or cover by walking)

crisscross (cross in a pattern, often random)

ford (cross a river where it's shallow)

bridge (cross over on a bridge)

jaywalk (cross the road at a red light)

drive; take (proceed along in a vehicle)

course (move swiftly through or over)

hop (traverse as if by a short airplane trip)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

So I believe the best way to get across the desert will be through the air.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

And now, Watson, not another word of the matter until we have a few solid stepping-stones on which we may hope to get across to our solution.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"We can never get across," I gasped.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Both contained the antibiotic ciprofloxacin and chemical permeation enhancers, which help the drug get across the eardrum into the middle ear.

(Developing novel ear infection treatments, NIH)