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Verb get back has 4 senses
- return, go back, get back, come back - come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity
--1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentence:
The children get back to the playground
- win back, get back - recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost; "We got back the money after we threatened to sue the company"; "He got back his son from the kidnappers"
--2 is one way to get, acquire
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- get even, get back - take revenge or even out a score; "I cannot accept the defeat--I want to get even"
--3 is one way to revenge, avenge, retaliate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- settle, get back - get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury; "I finally settled with my old enemy"
--4 is one way to fight, struggle
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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