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got by with

got by with is the simple past and past participle of get by with.

Meaning of get by with

Verb

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

  1. (Southern US) To escape punishment or discipline, to get away with.

Questions about got by with

What is got by with the simple past and past participle of?
Got by with is the simple past and past participle of get by with.

Words near got by with in the dictionary

  1. got blood from a turnip
  2. got blood out of a stone
  3. got busy
  4. got by
  5. got by the balls
  6. got by with
  7. got changed
  8. got cold feet
  9. got down
  10. got down on
  11. got down to

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Adapted from Wiktionary: got by with (page history and authors); get by with (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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