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getting

noun as in the act of changing

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Dora is seen getting dressed as a mermaid by a cursor being manned by some omniscient game player.

Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.

He was getting another lesson in what he had seemed not to appreciate fully about cops.

It was getting to create jokes at the source, and to get to hang out with comedians.

Getting men to do their share of care and domestic work is a key overlooked strategy in reducing poverty.

I was right, so it seems, about getting ashore before the enemy could see to shoot out to sea.

When it was too late, I could think of half a dozen ways we might have avoided getting held up.

No doubt these very batteries are now getting back into concealed positions where our ships' guns will not be able to find them.

Each seems satisfied with the way his own branch is getting on: Winter is the quicker worker.

He did not think of the matter again till just as he was getting into bed, when he noticed a red stain upon his handkerchief.

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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to getting, such as: appropriating, assimilating, capturing, catching, clutching, and null.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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