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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: communicate successfully; "I couldn't get across the message"; "He put over the idea very well" [syn: get across, put over]
2: become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" [syn: click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place]
3: travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day" [syn: traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across]

Merriam Webster's

verb Date: 1913 intransitive verb to become clear or convincing transitive verb to make clear or convincing <we couldn't get our point across>

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

When an idea gets across or when you get it across, you succeed in making other people understand it. Officers felt their point of view was not getting across to ministers... I had created a way to get my message across while using as few words as possible. = get over PHRASAL VERB: V P to n, V n P

Moby Thesaurus

assail the ear, be glimpsed, be heard, broadcast, caress the ear, clarify, come through, communicate, contact, convey, dawn on, disseminate, elucidate, explain, explicate, gain a hearing, get over, get through to, get to, give, give word, hand on, impart, leave word, make an impression, make clear, make it clear, make known, make oneself heard, pass, pass along, pass on, penetrate, popularize, put across, put over, reach, reach the ear, register, render, report, send, send word, share, share with, signal, simplify, sink in, soak in, spell out, tell, transfer, transmit, vulgarize