get back
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost
We got back the money after we threatened to sue the company
Types & categories
- get hypernym
Sense 2 verb
take revenge or even out a score
I cannot accept the defeat--I want to get even
Types & categories
Sense 3 verb
get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
I finally settled with my old enemy
Types & categories
- fight hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | get |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | revenge |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | pay back |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | fight |