GET THROUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does get through mean? 

• GET THROUGH (verb)
  The verb GET THROUGH has 5 senses:

1. finish a task completely

2. spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time

3. succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems

4. be in or establish communication with

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

  Familiarity information: GET THROUGH used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET THROUGH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Finish a task completely

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

clear up; finish off; finish up; get through; mop up; polish off; wrap up

Context example:

I finally got through this homework assignment

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

complete; finish (come or bring to a finish or an end)

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

cap off (finish or complete, as with some decisive action)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

get through; while away

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

pass; spend (use up a period of time in a specific way)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

come through; get through

Context example:

We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister

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

arrive at; attain; gain; hit; make; reach (reach a destination, either real or abstract)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be in or establish communication with

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

contact; get hold of; get through; reach

Context example:

He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia

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

communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)

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

ping (send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active)

ping (contact, usually in order to remind of something)

raise (establish radio communications with)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 5

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

 Context examples 

It took us a long day, traveling from seven in the morning till eight at night, with only two breaks of one hour each, to get through this obstacle.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is well, and thinks he shall get through the cold season better than we feared.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If they come the other way, we can get through the door if our job is done, or hide behind these window curtains if it is not.

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

This can affect hearing, because sound cannot get through all that fluid.

(Ear Infections, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

How they could get through it all had often amazed Mrs. Allen; and, when Catherine saw what was necessary here, she began to be amazed herself.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"Sharp-wave ripple abundance predicts how quickly a mouse can learn and memorize how to get through a maze, and short gamma power predicts how accurate that memory will be."

(Predicting Alzheimer's-like memory loss before it strikes, National Science Foundation)

He is a bulky man, and couldn't get through the window.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They could not get through; and as Miss Bertram's inclination for so doing did by no means lessen, it ended in Mr. Rushworth's declaring outright that he would go and fetch the key.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

My offer was accepted, and I talked it over with Sergeant Barclay, who was supposed to know the ground better than any other man, and who drew up a route by which I might get through the rebel lines.

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

“I see more of the world, I can assure you,” said Mr. Omer, “in this chair, than ever I see out of it. You'd be surprised at the number of people that looks in of a day to have a chat. You really would! There's twice as much in the newspaper, since I've taken to this chair, as there used to be. As to general reading, dear me, what a lot of it I do get through! That's what I feel so strong, you know! If it had been my eyes, what should I have done? If it had been my ears, what should I have done? Being my limbs, what does it signify? Why, my limbs only made my breath shorter when I used 'em. And now, if I want to go out into the street or down to the sands, I've only got to call Dick, Joram's youngest “prentice, and away I go in my own carriage, like the Lord Mayor of London.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)