GET AROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does get around mean? 

• GET AROUND (verb)
  The verb GET AROUND has 4 senses:

1. be released or become known; of news

2. avoid something unpleasant or laborious

3. be a social swinger; socialize a lot

4. move around; move from place to place

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET AROUND (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be released or become known; of news

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

break; get around; get out

Context example:

News of her death broke in the morning

Verb group:

break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)

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

leak; leak out (be leaked)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Avoid something unpleasant or laborious

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bypass; get around; go around; short-circuit

Context example:

You cannot bypass these rules!

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

avoid (stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be a social swinger; socialize a lot

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

get around; swing

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

socialise; socialize (take part in social activities; interact with others)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Move around; move from place to place

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

get about; get around

Context example:

How does she get around without a car?

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

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

The communication informs bacteria as they try to get around an obstacle.

(Bacteria change behavior to tackle tiny obstacle course, National Science Foundation)

A question about whether an individual is or was able to get around by themselves.

(Able to Get Around by Myself, NCI Thesaurus)

This allows blood to bypass (get around) the blockage.

(Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)