Get At

Definition: Get At

Get At

Verb

1. Reach or gain access to; "How does one access the attic in this house?"; "I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even if I climb on the roof".

2. Influence by corruption.

3. Cause annoyance in; disturb, esp. by minor irritations: "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves".

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

Synonyms: Get At

Acquisition

Get hold of, get between one's finger and thumb, get into one's hand, get at; take possession, come into possession, enter into possession.

Discovery

Trace, get at; hit it, have it; lay one's finger, lay one's hands upon; spot; get at the truth, arrive at the truth; put the saddle on the right horse, hit the right nail on the head.

Memory

Get at one's fingers' ends, have at one's fingers', learn at one's fingers', know one's lesson, say one's lesson, repeat by heart, repeat by rote; say one's lesson; repeat, repeat as a parrot; have at one's fingers' ends.

Truth

Get at the truth; (discover) a.

Crosswords: Get At

World peace, universal love and a chance to get at that guy with the expensive acne. (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis)

I need to know how to get at it. (Minority Report; writing credit: Scott Frank)

Because the truth isn't what you say, it's what I saydespite the methods I am obliged to employ to get at it. (Samoura�, Le; writing credit: Jean-Pierre Melville; Georges Pellegrin)

Besides that, he's on a cliff where a whole army couldn't get at him. (King Kong; writing credit: Merian C. Cooper; Edgar Wallace)

To get at least as far as their old man got (Allentown; performing artist: Billy Joel)

'Cause he's dying to get at her, (A Well Respected Man; performing artist: The Kinks)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Dick could hardly wait to get at these figures. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He rolled his cigarette down between his knees, where the wind could not get at it.

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Health

Not everyone with a UTI has symptoms, but most people get at least some. These may include a frequent urge to urinate and a painful, burning feeling in the area of the bladder or urethra during urination. (references)

Political Economy

Colombia

Nonetheless, Pastrana has been able to work with the Liberals to continue to get at least some desired legislation passed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "get at": get at smb. ♦ get at smth. ♦ get at the roots of ♦ get at the truth ♦ To get at. Additional references.

Albanian

arrij (achieve, aggregate, amount, appear, arrive, attain, catch, catch up, come, come at, come off, develop, end up, exact, gain, gain on, get, get along, get around, get down, get on, get through, go in for, grow up, hit, make, obtain, overreach, overtake, reach, run up, seek for, steal, succeed, take, take care, top, total, touch). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أدرك (apprehend, awake, comprehend, feel, follow, observe, overhaul, overtake, penetrate, perceive, pierce, realize, recognize, rejoin, see, see daylight, sense, sober up, take, twig, understand). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свързвам се с (communicate with, contact, join up with, knit up with, tie up with), намеквам (allude, hint, insinuate, intimate), надсмивам се на, подкупвам (bribe, buy, buy over, corrupt, disarm, fix up, grease, hand out bribes, lubricate, suborn), добирам се до (tap, win through). (various references)

Czech

dosáhnout na. (various references)

Finnish

päästä käsiksi johonkin (get hold of, get to grips with). (various references)

French

parvenir � (get at smth.), avoir l'intention, atteindre (get). (various references)

German

hinkommen zu, herankommen an (approach, be up to, get hold of, verge on), erreichen (accomplish, achieve, arrive at, attain, catch, contact, gain, get, get to, make, obtain, reach, to achieve, to attain, to obtain, to reach, touch, win), anspielen (allude, drive at, hint, hint at, insinuate, kick off, open, pass to, play the ball, to allude), abzielen (aim, tend). (various references)

Greek 

θέλω να πω. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תכון (aim, have in mind, intend, mean, purport, sense, stand for, will). (various references)

Hungarian

elér (accomplish, achieve, attain, gain, get, get hold of, got, made, overtake, reach, to attain, to chalk up, to come up with, to get, to make, to realize). (various references)

Pig Latin

etgay atay

Romanian

reuşi sã-şi procure (get at the truth), purta pica cuiva (bear a grudge against smb., get at the truth, grudge), nu-l avea la inimã (get at the truth), determina cauzele (get at the roots of), descoperi fapte (get at the truth), încerca sã corupe pe cineva (get at the truth), încerca sã afle adevãrul (get at the truth). (various references)

Russian 

намереваться (have a good mind, intend, mean [], meant [], meditate, plan, purpose). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prići (accost, approach), dočepati se. (various references)

Spanish

tomar el pelo (poke fun, put on, rib, wind up), sobornar (bribe, buy, buy over, grease the palm, nobble, palm, Square, suborn, sweeten, touch), querer decir (add up to, aim, imply, import, intend, mean), meterse con (go for, interfere, molest, pick on), llegar a (arrive at, attain, come at, come to, come up to, enter into, gain, get down to, get up to, grow to, hit, touch), ir (be, be almost, be behind, bet, blab, chase after, collapse, die out, discard to, drag on, escape from, exist, fail to, fart, fit, follow, get along, get round, go, going, head, lead, lose, pass, pass away, pass by, pursue, run after, run away, run for, slip down, suit, to go, walk), intimidar (browbeat, daunt, get away, intimidate, overawe, put off, scare, trouble), estropear (bang up, batter, bedevil, blemish, bungle, chew out, chew up, cripple, crumple, damage, disable, distort, emasculate, foul up, gum up, harm, hurt, knock out, lark about, lark around, maim, make a mess of, mangle, Mar, maul, mess up, muff, perish, pervert, put out of action, queer, ruin, spoil, strip, tamper, tear, tinker, wreck), entrar (access, approach, attack, bob in, bring in, call in, capture, come in, draw in, enter, fit, get in, go in, go up, input, introduce, invade, march in, pass in, perform, pull in, put in, rise, sail in, show in, step in, tackle, to enter, wade in, walk in), descubrirse (bare one's head, be discovered, dig up, get on to, plough up, zip, zip up), averiguar (ascertain, find out, inquire, learn, look up, trace back), atacar (arraign, assail, assault, attack, bite, charge, come at, commit aggression, drive, engage, go for, go in, gun, light into, pitch into, plough into, prey, raid, sail into, set about, set on, set upon, sick, slash, strike, stuff, tackle, tamp, tamp down, tamp in, walk in), apuntar a (point at), apuntar (aim, appear, break, enter, get down, jot down, lay, leak, level, log, make a note, Mark, mark down, mark up, note, point, prompt, put down, record, register, remark, score, set down, sight, train, turn up, write down), alcanzar (accomplish, achieve, acquire, add up to, amount, arrive at, attain, carry, catch up, catch up with, come up with, do, gain, get, hit, jockey, last out, make up on, obtain, overhaul, overtake, reach, throw in, throw out, touch, win, win through). (various references)

Swedish

trakassera (bullyrag, pester), syfta på (aim), komma åt (come at, reach, spite, touch). (various references)

Turkish

zorla yüklemeye çalışmak, varmak (approach, arrive, arrive at, attain, come at, come to, end up, get, get to, go into, hit, make, reach), ulaşmak (achieve, aggregate, approach, arrive, attain, come, come at, come to, come up to, come up with, effect, figure out at, gain, hit, live up to, reach, win), uğraşmak (agonize, attack, be at war with, be occupied in doing, be occupied with doing, come at, contend, cope, deal, endeavor, endeavour, engage in, exert oneself, fight, go in for, grapple, groove, haze, labor, labour, make an effort, mess around with, mess with, moil, monkey around with, monkey with, pick on, push, seek, set to, strive, strive against, struggle, tackle, toil, try hard, tug, tussle, work away, work hard, wrestle), rüşvetle etkilemek, ortaya çıkarmak (bring into the open, bring out, bring to light, bring to pass, conceive, detect, disclose, discover, expose, ferret out, hit off, lay bare, pick out, search out, show up, sift out, smoke out, throw into relief, uncloak, uncover, unearth, unveil), demek istemek (connote, drive at, mean, purport), bulaşmak (be contaminated by, be involved, be transmitted by, become entangled in, catch, get into a row, have a hand in, have one's hand in, mess with, rub on, smear, smudge, welter), üstüne varmak (bear down on, lean upon, press smb. close, provoke). (various references)

Ukrainian

збагнути (apprehend, catch, comprehend, conceive, gather one's wits, penetrate, tumble to), добиратися (attain). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gate, geta, tate, teat.

-2 letters: age, ate, att, eat, eta, gae, gat, get, tae, tag, tat, tea, teg, tet.

-3 letters: ae, ag, at, et, ta.

+1 letter: guttae, target, togate.

+2 letters: agitate, cottage, cuttage, gantlet, garotte, gavotte, gazette, gestalt, gestate, guttate, pottage, regatta, tangent, targets, tentage, togated, wattage.

+3 letters: abetting, agitated, agitates, aglitter, aigrette, baguette, cogitate, cottager, cottages, cottagey, cuttages, digitate, estating, frottage, gantlets, garotted, garotter, garottes, garrotte, gatepost, gauntest, gauntlet, gavotted, gavottes, gazetted, gazettes, gestalts, gestated, gestates, gettable, gnathite, gnattier, greatest, guttated, liftgate, litigate, megawatt, mitigate, plottage, pottages, regattas, retarget, retaught, stagiest, stagnate, strategy, tailgate, tangents, tangiest, targeted, tegmenta, tentages, tetragon, tollgate, treating, tutelage, tutorage, vegetant, vegetate, wattages.