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get late

get late verb: to approach nighttime.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, impersonal) To approach nighttime.
    • It's getting late. Let's go home.

get late meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

get late in Tamil

to approach nighttime
இருட்டு iruṭṭu

get late in Malayalam

to get late
വൈകുക vaikuka

Forms of get late

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

Questions about get late

What does get late mean?
Get late means to approach nighttime.
What is get late in Tamil?
Get late in Tamil is இருட்டு (iruṭṭu). See Get late meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is get late?
Get late is a verb.
What is the past tense of get late?
The past tense of get late is got late.

Words near get late in the dictionary

  1. get it twisted
  2. get it up
  3. get jiggy
  4. get knotted
  5. get laid
  6. get late
  7. get life
  8. get lost
  9. get lucky
  10. get Mario Karted
  11. get married

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Adapted from Wiktionary: get late (page history and authors); വൈകുക (Malayalam) (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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