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get to
verb
1. reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team" (Freq. 4)
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We made it!

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She may not make the grade

• Syn: ↑reach, ↑make, ↑progress to
• Derivationally related forms: ↑reaching (for: ↑reach)
• Hypernyms: ↑achieve, ↑accomplish, ↑attain, ↑reach
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

2. arrive at the point of (Freq. 3)
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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:
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Somebody ——s INFINITIVE

3. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
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Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me

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It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves

• Syn:
↑annoy, ↑rag, ↑bother, ↑get at, ↑irritate, ↑rile, ↑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:
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Somebody ——s somebody

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Something ——s somebody

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The performance is likely to get to Sue

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You use get to or grow to in front of another verb to say that someone gradually acquires a particular attitude. Grow to is more formal than get to.

I got to like the whole idea.

I grew to dislike working for the cinema.

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You also use get to to say that someone gradually becomes aware of something, or gradually becomes acquainted with someone or something.

I got to realize it more as I grew older.

I got to know a few people.

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In American English, if you get to do something, you have the opportunity to do it, and you do it.

I got to do a little work in Cuba.

I never got to ride in one again.

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Get to is not usually used like this in British English.
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1) informal annoy or upset (someone) by persistent action

he started crying-we were getting to him

2) another way of saying get around to above

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get to [phrasal verb]
1 get to (something)
1 a : to start (doing something)

She sometimes gets to worrying over her health.

We got to talking about old times.

1 b : to deal with (something)

The letter is on my desk, but I haven't gotten to it yet.

I'll get to the accounts as soon as I can.

2 get to (someone)
2 a : to bother or annoy (someone)

All these delays are starting to get to me.

— see also ↑get 26a (above)
2 b : to make (someone) feel sad

The movie's sad ending really got to me.

— see also ↑get 26b (above)
2 c chiefly US : to change or influence the behavior of (someone) wrongly or illegally by making threats, paying money, etc.

The witness changed his story. Someone must have gotten to him.

3 get to (somewhere) : to go to or reach (somewhere)

We got to the station/airport just in time.

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Main Entry: ↑get

Useful english dictionary. 2012.