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get on with

get on with verb: to proceed with; to begin or continue, especially after an interruption.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To proceed with; to begin or continue, especially after an interruption.
    • Turn off the television and get on with your homework.
    • Now that the technical difficulties have been taken care of, let's get on with the show!
  2. (transitive) To have a good relationship with.
    • Peter is not easy to get on with.
    Synonyms:
    get along with
  3. (transitive) To successfully use or adapt to.
    • I just can't get on with these new glasses.

get on with meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese

get on with in Tamil

ஆரம்பி, தொடர்ந்து செய், நல்லுறவாக இரு

get on with in Vietnamese

proceed with
quay lại, tiếp tục

Examples of get on with in a sentence

  • I have to get on with my spring cleaning.
  • I wished they would go away, but they didn't, so I had to get on with the job to the accompaniment of a background of giggles!1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:

Synonyms of get on with

Forms of get on with

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

Questions about get on with

What does get on with mean?
Get on with means to proceed with; to begin or continue, especially after an interruption.
What is get on with in Tamil?
Get on with in Tamil is ஆரம்பி, தொடர்ந்து செய், நல்லுறவாக இரு. See Get on with meaning in Tamil.
How do you use get on with in a sentence?
I have to get on with my spring cleaning.
What part of speech is get on with?
Get on with is a verb.
What is the past tense of get on with?
The past tense of get on with is got on with.

Words near get on with in the dictionary

  1. get on someone's wrong side
  2. get on the end of
  3. get on the stick
  4. get on to
  5. get on up
  6. get on with
  7. get on with you
  8. get one over on
  9. get one up on
  10. get one's
  11. get one's a into g

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Adapted from Wiktionary: get on with (page history and authors); get on with (Tamil 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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