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get into trouble

get into trouble verb: to be punished or chastised for doing something prohibited.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To be punished or chastised for doing something prohibited.
  2. (transitive) To cause to be punished.
    • You'll get us all into trouble if you don't keep quiet.
  3. (intransitive) To fall into difficulty.
    Synonyms:
    run into trouble, run aground
  4. (euphemistic, intransitive, slang) To become pregnant.
  5. (euphemistic, slang, transitive) To make pregnant.
    • He got a girl into trouble and had to marry her.

get into trouble meaning in Malayalam and Sanskrit

get into trouble in Malayalam

to get into trouble, to invite conflict, to pick a quarrel
വള്ളി പിടിക്കുക vaḷḷi piṭikkuka

get into trouble in Sanskrit

to get into trouble
आपद् āpad

Synonyms of get into trouble

Forms of get into trouble

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

Questions about get into trouble

What does get into trouble mean?
Get into trouble means to be punished or chastised for doing something prohibited.
What is get into trouble in Malayalam?
Get into trouble in Malayalam is വള്ളി പിടിക്കുക (vaḷḷi piṭikkuka). See Get into trouble meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is get into trouble?
Get into trouble is a verb.
What is the past tense of get into trouble?
The past tense of get into trouble is got into trouble.

Words near get into trouble in the dictionary

  1. get into shape
  2. get into someone's head
  3. get into someone's pants
  4. get into the act
  5. get into the wrong hands
  6. get into trouble
  7. get it
  8. get it how one gets it
  9. get it how one lives
  10. get it how one lives it
  11. get it in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: get into trouble (page history and authors); വള്ളി പിടിക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); आपद् (Sanskrit) (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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