Getting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GETTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• come to have (something); receive
• experience, suffer, or be afflicted with (something bad)
• receive as a punishment or penalty
• contract (a disease or ailment)
• succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain
• move in order to pick up or bring (something); fetch
• prepare (a meal)
• tend to meet with or find in a specified place or situation
• travel by or catch (a bus, train, or other form of transport)
• obtain (a figure or answer) as a result of calculation.
• make contact with, especially by telephone
• respond to a ring of (a telephone or doorbell)
• used to draw attention to someone whom one regards as pretentious or vain
• reach or cause to reach a specified state or condition
• used with past participle to form the passive mood
• cause to be treated in a specified way
• induce or prevail upon (someone) to do something
• have the opportunity to do
• begin to be or do something, especially gradually or by chance
• come, go, or make progress eventually or with some difficulty
• move or come into a specified position, situation, or state
• succeed in making (someone or something) come, go, or move somewhere
• reach a specified point or stage
• catch or apprehend (someone)
• strike or wound (someone) with a blow or missile
• punish, injure, or kill (someone), especially as retribution
• be punished, injured, or killed
• be appropriately punished or rewarded
• annoy (someone) greatly
• baffle (someone)
• understand (an argument or the person making it)
• acquire (knowledge) by study; learn
NOUN:
• begetting, procreation
• a person whom the speaker dislikes or despises.
• The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.
• That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.
• the act of acquiring something
• an animal's offspring.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to obtain or acquire
• present participle of get

Words related to GETTING

get4 gets5 got4 gotten7

Words that contain GETTING

gettings10 begetting13 ungetting11 forgetting15 nuggetting13 pargetting14 forgettings16 overgetting16 pargettings15 unbegetting15 forgettingly20

How to use GETTING in a sentence

• The next news they got from Bournemouth was positively alarming! She was getting better.
• Clumsy and slow as was his mechanism, he nevertheless succeeded in getting the long arm started.
• There has been much complaint of the difficulty of getting news from men at the front.
• He undressed quickly, all his candles alight, and then sat before the fire in the armchair to read a little before getting into bed.
• This six years of vexatious swinging like a pendulum over the line between bondage and liberty was well calculated to spoil all the gratitude and glory of getting across.
• He succeeded, however, in getting to the house of his friend, which was near at hand, and here he was soon followed by Conrad, who was in great distress.
• They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others.
• But no time was to be lost in getting away from that beautiful, treacherous stream.
• I had been in the woods getting sweet-gum when I seen him.
• Our only safety now lies in getting through the ravine before they can gain a position to fire at us.
• I mean to speak to you pretty plainly, for I am getting sick of the whole business.
• Hence their loathing of all work, driving these creatures to have recourse to rapid ways of getting money.
• After an hour or so I got up to dress, and rang the bell several times without getting any answer.
• And now he climbed down again, a much more difficult feat than getting up.
• In the spring of 1848 the Saints on the Missouri river were busy getting ready for the move to the mountains.
• In those days there was some difficulty, if not a little danger, in getting in among some of the noblest regions of our Alps.
• Next time when you hear me getting started just slow me down and let me cool off.
• Not a bird or lizard or living creature in sight! The trail was getting lonely.
• He was getting hold of hands, that He might be their leader up to the highlands of a new life.
• How quickly we are getting through the park! We shall reach the church, and I shall not have heard.
• By the time we had succeeded in getting twenty-five dry cottonwood logs under our wagon, it was afloat.
• All the afternoon Bart had worked at the desk or helped in getting out packages and boxes for delivery.
• Extreme care must be used in getting them away, as we may be watched.
• We took the line of least resistance, and went skimming up the ice lane like birds for several miles before we realized how far we were getting away from home.
• It was only just past high water when she struck, and there was therefore no chance of getting her off till the next tide.
• On getting up I saw Troon several miles behind and Ailsa Craig drawing near.

Similar words containing GETT without suffix ing

getter7 getters8 begetter11 gettable11 gettered10 gettings10 ringette9 stagette9 begetters12 begetting13 courgette12 forgetter13 georgette11 gettering11 nuggetted12 pargetted13 pargetter12 ringettes10 stagettes10 ungetting11 courgettes13 forgetters14 forgettery17 forgetting15 georgettes12 getterings12 nuggetting13 pargetters13 pargetting14 forgettable17 forgettings16 overgetting16 pargettings15 suffragette18 unbegetting15 forgetteries16 forgettingly20 suffragettes19 suffragettism22 unforgettable19 unforgettably22 suffragettisms23

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