get back
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.84 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To do something to hurt or harm (someone) who has hurt or harmed one; to take revenge.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "When I get back from holiday, I expect the house to be tidy."
- "He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it."
- "The night air may have sobered him a bit by the time they got back to Beattock."
- "I'll get back to you on that by Wednesday."
- "Please get back to me about his complaint. ["to" here connotes "reply".]"
- "Please get back with me about his complaint. ["with" here connotes "meet with", physically or virtually.]"