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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: finish a task completely; "I finally got through this homework assignment" [syn: get through, wrap up, finish off, mop up, polish off, clear up, finish up]
2: spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time [syn: while away, get through]
3: succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems; "We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister" [syn: get through, come through]
4: be in or establish communication with; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia" [syn: reach, get through, get hold of, contact]
5: 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]

Merriam Webster's

I. phrasal to reach the end of ; complete II. intransitive verb Date: 1619 1. to reach a destination 2. to gain approval or a desired outcome 3. a. to become clear or understood <our warnings finally got through to him> b. to complete a communications connection

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you get through a task or an amount of work, especially when it is difficult, you complete it. I think you can get through the first two chapters. PHRASAL VERB: V P n 2. If you get through a difficult or unpleasant period of time, you manage to live through it. It is hard to see how people will get through the winter... = survive PHRASAL VERB: V P n 3. If you get through a large amount of something, you use it. (mainly BRIT) You'll get through at least ten nappies a day. PHRASAL VERB: V P n 4. If you get through to someone, you succeed in making them understand something that you are trying to tell them. An old friend might well be able to get through to her and help her... The message was finally getting through to him. PHRASAL VERB: V P to n, V P to n, also V P 5. If you get through to someone, you succeed in contacting them on the telephone. Look, I can't get through to this number... I've been trying to ring up all day and I couldn't get through. PHRASAL VERB: V P to n, V P 6. If you get through an examination or get through, you pass it. (mainly BRIT) Did you have to get through an entrance examination? PHRASAL VERB: V P n, also V P 7. If a law or proposal gets through, it is officially approved by something such as a parliament or committee. ...if his referendum law failed to get through... Such a radical proposal would never get through parliament. = go through PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

1. Pass through, go through. 2. Accomplish, finish, complete, do.

Moby Thesaurus

KO, assail the ear, be heard, bring about, bring off, bring to effect, bring to pass, button up, call off, cancel, cap, caress the ear, carry into effect, carry into execution, carry off, carry out, carry through, carry to completion, clean up, climax, close out, close up, come through, come through with, complete, conclude, contact, crown, culminate, delete, dispose of, drop the curtain, end, end off, expunge, extinguish, finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, fold up, fulfill, gain a hearing, gain entree, get across, get done, get into, get it over, get over with, get through to, get through with, get to, give the quietus, go through, implement, interpenetrate, kayo, kibosh, kill, knock out, make an entrance, make an impression, make oneself heard, make way into, mop up, pass through, penetrate, perfect, pierce, polish off, pull off, put across, put in practice, put into effect, put into practice, put over, put paid to, put through, reach, reach the ear, register, round out, scrag, shoot down, terminate, top off, top out, translate into action, wind up, wipe out, work out, wrap up, zap