Get About

Definition: Get About

Get About

Verb

1. Move around; move from place to place; "How does she get around without a car?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Get About

Publication

Be published; be public, become public; Adjective: come out; go about, fly about, buzz about, blow about; get about, get abroad, get afloat, get wind; find vent; see the light; go forth, take air, acquire currency, pass current; go the rounds, go the round of the newspapers, go through the length and breadth of the land; virum volitare per ora; pass from mouth to mouth; spread; run like wildfire, spread like wildfire.

Restoration

Verb: return to the original state; recover, rally, revive; come come to, come round, come to oneself; pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again; get well,get round, get the better of, get over, get about; rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave; survive; (outlive); resume, reappear; come to, come to life again; live again, rise again.

It's that feeling I get about you, deep inside (Something About The Way You Look Tonight; performing artist: Elton John)

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Brussels, Belgium, 1940-44(?)--People lining up at a butcher shop for their rations of one ounce of meat (beef, horse, dog, cat or tripe) which they get about once a week. Credit: Library of Congress.

John Frederick of Grant County, North Dakota, expects to get about twenty bushels of wheat off his forty acre field. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Business

Currently, Tijuana gets its water through purchases from Mexicali-farmers, who get about 85 percent of their water from Baja California's Colorado River water supply. (references)

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Albanian

shkoj andej-këtej (go about), përhapem (dilate, enlarge, expatiate, extend, get along, outspread, overreach, overspread, permeate, pervade, proliferate, Ravel, reach, spill out, spread, transpire), hallakatem (be dispersed, get abroad, get out), bëhem i njohur (become famous, catch on). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نشر الخبر, ‏تنقل (locomotion, move, shift), ‏تحرك (locomotion, move, movement, proceed, shift, stir, wag), ‏تجول (gallivant, knock about, move, peddle, ramble, stroll, swag, tour, wander, wandering). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разпространявам се (circulate, proliferate, travel), ходя (date, foot, go, navigate, step, walk), виждам свят, обикалям (circle, compass, get round, itinerate, orb, patrol, perambulate, ride, stooge around, stride, tour, travel, trip, walk), движа се (bear, fluctuate, forge ahead, go, heave, move, navigate, ride, run, set, stir, travel, walk, work). (various references)

Czech

rozkřiknout se, rozšířit se (dilate, get abroad, outspread, outstretch, overrun, overspread, transpire), jezdit (go, run), chodit mezi lidi (go out), cestovat (go, itinerate, travel, trek, voyage, wander). (various references)

French

se déplacer, faire diffuser. (various references)

German

herumgesprochen. (various references)

Greek 

κυκλοφορώ (circulate, get around, get round, pass, release). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תפשט (expand, pervade, propagate, spread, spread out, suffuse), ל�"סתובב (perambulate, revolve, roll, rotate, slue, swivel, tour, turn, turn around, turn over, turn round), ל� וע (get around, move, range, rove, stir, tremble, wander). (various references)

Hungarian

terjed (to augment, to be propagated, to circulate, to diffuse, to make way, to multiply, to range), mozog (move, to exercise, to move, to move in high society, to spiral, to stir, to waggle), járkál (to go about, to stroll). (various references)

Manx

goll mygeayrt (circle, go about, go round, pass round, skirt). (various references)

Pig Latin

etgay aboutay

Portuguese

expandir (dilate, distend, enlarge, evolve, expand), dilatar (dilate, distend, enlarge, expand, plump, protract, swell), aumentar (accrete, accrue, add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, develop, double, eke, enhance, enlarge, expand, explode, go up, grow, heighten, increase, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, mark up, raise, redouble, redound, rise, steepen, stiffen, thicken, up, wax), ampliar (augment, broaden, enlarge, expand, extend, increase, magnify, widen). (various references)

Romanian

circula (be about, be abroad, circulate, course, flow, go, pass, run). (various references)

Russian 

распространяться (circulate, develop, dilate, enlarge, expatiate, gain ground, get abroad, outspread, pervade, propagate, spread). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prevoziti se, širiti se (flare, permeate, sheet, spread). (various references)

Spanish

viajar mucho (gad about, get around), salir mucho (gad about, get around), saberse (break, get out), levantarse y salir (get around), ir a muchos sitios (get around), ir a muchos lugares (get around), divulgarse (break, get out, leak out), andar por aquí y por allá, andar por ahí y por aquí. (various references)

Swedish

fara omkring (get around, travel about). (various references)

Turkish

gidip gelmek (go and return, go regularly, run, seesaw, shuttle), gezmek (browse around, go about, hike, itinerate, jaunt, knock about, knock around, perambulate, peregrinate, promenade, range, rove, tour, travel, visit, walk, wander, wander in), yayılmak (be out at grass, be rife, branch, circulate, diffuse, disperse, effuse, emanate, expand, fan, fan out, get around, get round, go, grow rife, loll, lounge, mushroom, outstretch, overspread, permeate, pervade, ramble, ramp, resound, scatter, splay, sprawl, spread, spread oneself, spread out, stretch, unfold), seyahat etmek (have a trip, journey, peregrinate, travel, voyage), iyileşip ayağa kalkmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

ставати відомим (divulge, get around), пересуватися (get around, locomote). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: tugboat.

-2 letters: baguet, battue, guttae, outage, outate, outbeg, outeat, tautog, togate, tubate.

-3 letters: about, battu, beaut, begat, begot, betta, buteo, butte, gutta, tegua, togae, togue, tubae.

-4 letters: abet, abut, ague, auto, bate, batt, beat, beau, beta, boat, bota, bott, bout, bute, butt, gate, geta, goat, gout, tabu, tate, taut, teat, toea, toga, tote, tout.

+3 letters: outbleating, outdebating.

+4 letters: battleground.

+5 letters: battlegrounds, unforgettable, unforgettably.