get wrong
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Northumbria/ɡɛt ɹæŋ/
get wrong verb: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, wrong.
Verb
get wrong (third-person singular simple present gets wrong, present participle getting wrong, simple past got wrong, past participle (UK) got wrong or (US) gotten wrong)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, wrong.
- You've got it all wrong: I'm innocent of this crime!
- Emily got three of the sums wrong in her maths test.
- To be told off or reprimanded; to get into trouble.
- […] she couldn't tell her mother and father, because she would have got wrong off her mother and father […]1976, John Henry Taylor, The Half-Way Generation: A Study of Asian Youths in Newcastle upon Tyne, NFER Publishing Company, page 138
- When the silence had gone on a long time, Kath said, ‘I got wrong for saying nowt.’1986, Pat Barker, The Century's Daughter, Virago; republished as Liza's England, 1996, page 238
Forms of get wrong
| third-person singular present | gets wrong |
|---|---|
| present participle | getting wrong |
| past | got wrong |
| past participle UK | got wrong |
| past participle US | gotten wrong |
Questions about get wrong
- What does get wrong mean?
- Get wrong means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, wrong.
- What part of speech is get wrong?
- Get wrong is a verb.
- How do you pronounce get wrong?
- Get wrong is pronounced /ɡɛt ɹæŋ/ (Northumbria).
- What is the past tense of get wrong?
- The past tense of get wrong is got wrong.
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