get back

Definition of get back in English English dictionary: Return to where one came from
When I get back from holiday, I expect the house to be tidy.; to retrieve, to have an item returned
I lent her my guitar over the Christmas holidays, and will get it back when the term starts.; If you get back at someone or get them back, you do something unpleasant to them in order to have revenge for something unpleasant that they did to you. The divorce process should not be used as a means to get back at your former partner I'm going to get you back so badly you'll never to be able to show your face again; get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury; "I finally settled with my old enemy"; return; take revenge or even out a score; "I cannot accept the defeat--I want to get even"; If you get something back after you have lost it or after it has been taken from you, you then have it again. You have 14 days in which you can cancel the contract and get your money 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"; come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity; If you get back to a subject that you were talking about before, you start talking about it again. It wasn't until we had sat down to eat that we got back to the subject of Tom Halliday. = return; If someone or something gets back to a state they were in before, they are then in that state again. Then life started to get back to normal I couldn't get back to sleep
get back at: To retaliate; to take revenge
She put toothpaste in his shoes to get back at him for the frog he left in her refrigerator.
get back to: Return to (an activity)
I'll get back to work as soon as I've finished this game.
get back to: To return contact with (someone)
I'll get back to you when I have an answer.
get back to work: continue
get back to work: proceed
get back on one's feet: (Slang) return to normal life (after being sick or following serious problems)
get back to: If you get back to an activity, you start doing it again after you have stopped doing it. I think I ought to get back to work
get off someone's back: To cease pestering or criticizing someone, i.e. to leave them alone
get one's back up: To become angry, defensive, or irritable
get someone's back up: To annoy a person either deliberately or inadvertently
Telling someone that her child can and should be doing better and not offering some solutions immediately gets my back up.
get somebody back: (deyim) Get revenge, get back at
Lyle wants to get me back for seeing Betty. He's jealous.
get someone's back up: (deyim) Annoy or anger a person, either deliberately or inadvertently
get someone's back up: (deyim) Annoy or anger someone
get back: get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury; "I finally settled with my old enemy"
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"
get back: take revenge or even out a score; "I cannot accept the defeat--I want to get even"
get back: come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity
get off one's back: (Slang) stop annoying or bothering a person
to get one's back up: be steadfast about, be stubborn about

get back

Turkish pronunciation

get bäk

Synonyms

reclaim, recoup, recover, repossess, retrieve, salvage, arrive home, come back, come home, reappear, revert, revisit, turn back

Antonyms

lose, miss, pass, depart, go away, leave

Pronunciation

/ˈget ˈbak/ /ˈɡɛt ˈbæk/

Etymology

[ 'get, ÷'git ] (verb.) 13th century. Middle English, from Old Norse geta to get, beget; akin to Old English bigietan to beget, Latin prehendere to seize, grasp, Greek chandanein to hold, contain.