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get across

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. get across, put oververb

    communicate successfully

    "I couldn't get across the message"; "He put over the idea very well"

  2. click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into placeverb

    become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

    "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"

  3. traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut acrossverb

    travel across or pass over

    "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"

Wiktionary

  1. get acrossverb

    To cross; to move from one side (of something) to the other, literally or figuratively.

  2. get acrossverb

    To make an idea evident; to successfully explain a thought or feeling.

ChatGPT

  1. get across

    "Get across" generally refers to the action of successfully conveying or communicating an idea, message or information clearly so others could understand it. It can also mean successfully moving from one side to another, usually when referencing a physical barrier such as a road or river etc.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of get across in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of get across in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of get across in a Sentence

  1. Chad Michael Murray:

    Over the course of a few days they are in need of shelter and water and supplies to get across the border so they can run for freedom and be done and they fall upon this home; and basically what goes on inside this home is far more disturbing than anything they could have done. It is kind of that coming age tale of a man and redemption. because I think it’s America! It’s one of those things where we have that, you know, that defines us as a country.

  2. Al Abdallah:

    This is going to help them get across the finish line, you can work as hard as you want, but it is very difficult if not impossible to save $ 70,000 to put down on a home.

  3. Ryan Servaites:

    The fact that it happened on this day, in a way, reinforces what we are trying to get across, this happens. It is an issue. We see more people dying. Children are being hurt.

  4. Cynthia Graham:

    The main thing that is important to get across is that this isn’t scientific research, while watching it, I started wondering what’s the difference between super orgasms and multiple orgasms, and the answer I got was ‘not very much.’.

  5. Bryan Kibler:

    We’re just stealing the language that sanctuary cities use, we wanted to … get across that our Second Amendment rights are slowly being stripped away.


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