get to
1. reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team" (Freq. 4)
- We made it!
- She may not make the grade
• Syn:
reach, make, progress to
• Derivationally related forms:
reaching (for: reach)
• Hypernyms:
achieve, accomplish, attain, reach
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. arrive at the point of (Freq. 3)
- She gets to fretting if I stay away from home too long
• Hypernyms:
get down, begin, get, start out, start,
set about, set out, commence
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s INFINITIVE
3. cause annoyance in;
disturb, especially by minor irritations
- Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me
- It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves
• Syn:
annoy, rag, bother, get at, irritate,
irritate, nark, nettle, gravel, vex,
chafe, devil
• Derivationally related forms:
devilment (for: devil), deviltry (for: devil), devilry (for: devil), vexation (for: vex), vexer (for: vex), irritation (for: irritate), irritant (for: irritate), botheration (for: bother), bother (for: bother), annoyer (for: annoy), annoyance (for: annoy)
• Hypernyms:
displease
• Hyponyms:
get, get under one's skin, eat into, fret, rankle,
grate, peeve, ruffle, harass, hassle, harry,
chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague,
molest, provoke, antagonize, antagonise
• Verb Group:
chafe
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- The performance is likely to get to Sue
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