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get about

get about verb: to be mobile, physically active.

Verb

get about (third-person singular simple present gets about, present participle getting about, simple past got about, past participle (UK) got about or (US) gotten about)

  1. (informal) To be mobile, physically active.
    • I can't get about so much since I hurt my hip.
    • The first walk I took when I grew stronger and was able to get about was up to Aunt Jane's, notwithstanding she had never so much as been to ask after me all these days.[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC
  2. (informal) To become widely known; to be leaked to the public or a wider audience.
    • If this story gets about then I'm finished.
    Synonyms:
    get out
  3. (informal) To visit a variety of different places.
    • That's the third party Brenda's been to this week. She certainly gets about.

get about meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

get about in Malayalam

move about, move around, travel
പല സ്ഥലങ്ങളിൽ മാറിമാറി സഞ്ചരിക്കുക, ചുറ്റിസഞ്ചരിക്കുക, ചുറ്റിക്കറങ്ങുക, യാത്ര ചെയ്യുക, പര്യടനം നടത്തുക

get about in Kannada

ಅಡ್ಡಾಡು, ಹರಡು, ಪ್ರಚಾರಮಾಡು

Synonyms of get about

Forms of get about

third-person singular presentgets about
present participlegetting about
pastgot about
past participle UKgot about
past participle USgotten about

Questions about get about

What does get about mean?
Get about means to be mobile, physically active.
What is get about in Malayalam?
Get about in Malayalam is പല സ്ഥലങ്ങളിൽ മാറിമാറി സഞ്ചരിക്കുക, ചുറ്റിസഞ്ചരിക്കുക, ചുറ്റിക്കറങ്ങുക. See Get about meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is get about?
Get about is a verb.
What is the past tense of get about?
The past tense of get about is got about.

Words near get about in the dictionary

  1. get a wiggle on
  2. get a word in
  3. get a word in edgeways
  4. get a word in edgewise
  5. get a wriggle on
  6. get about
  7. get above oneself
  8. get across
  9. get across the line
  10. get action
  11. get after

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: get about (page history and authors); get about (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); get about (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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