Another word for getting | Synonyms for getting

Another word for getting

getting Synonyms

getting

n.

The act of procuring
taking, obtaining, gaining, grasping, catching, earning, winning, seizing, clutching, pursuing, securing, capturing, mastering, possessing oneself of, confiscating, appropriating, assimilating, seeking out, snatching.
Antonyms losing*, giving up, abandoning.
The act of changing
succumbing, growing, becoming, altering, accepting, submitting to, being subjected to.
Antonyms refusal*, rejecting, throwing off.

WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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They are getting ready to start this very night.
Are the weeds getting a little high along the drive?
I could not follow with my eyes the geometrical figures drawn on the blackboard, and my only means of getting a clear idea of them was to make them on a cushion with straight and curved wires, which had bent and pointed ends.
But come, my children; let us explore the mountain and discover which way we must go in order to escape from this cavern, which is getting to be almost as hot as a bake-oven.
Is she still getting worse?

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