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| Main Entry: |
get by
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | manage, survive |
| Synonyms: | contrive, cope, do, do well enough, exist, fare, flourish, get along, get on, make ends meet, make out, muddle through, prosper, shift, subsist, succeed, thrive |
| Main Entry: | cope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | manage, contend |
| Synonyms: | battle with, buffet, carry on, confront, deal, dispatch, encounter, endure, face, get a handle on, get by, grapple, hack it, hack*, handle, hold one's own, live with, make go of it, make it, make out, make the grade, pit oneself against, rise to occasion, struggle, struggle through, suffer, survive, tangle, tussle, weather, wrestle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | do |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act, behave |
| Synonyms: | acquit oneself, appear, bear, carry, come on like, comport, conduct, demean, deport, discourse, enact, fare, get along, get by, give, go on, impersonate, make out, manage, muddle through, operate, perform, personate, play, playact, portray, present, produce, put on*, quit, render the role, seem, stagger along |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eke out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make something last |
| Synonyms: | barely exist, be economical with, be frugal with, be sparing with, economize on, get by, stretch out |
| Antonyms: | use up, waste |
| Main Entry: | exist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get along in life |
| Synonyms: | consist, dwell, eke out a living, endure, get by, go on, inhere, kick*, lie, live, make it, reside, stay alive, subsist, survive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get along; turn out |
| Synonyms: | advance, do, get by, get on, go, handle, happen, hie, journey, make headway, make out, manage, muddle through, pass, proceed, progress, prosper, prove, shift, stagger |
| Notes: | a fair (noun) is a traveling show or carnival or a gathering of producers to promote business - fair (adjective) means free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception, or very pleasing to the eye, or not excessive or extreme; fare (noun) is the sum charged for transportation, or the food and drink that are regularly consumed - fare (verb) to get along or proceed |
| Main Entry: | get along |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make progress |
| Synonyms: | cope, develop, do, fare, flourish, get by, get on, make out, manage, muddle through, prosper, shift, succeed, thrive |
| Antonyms: | cease, halt, stop |
| Main Entry: | get on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cope, progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, do, do well enough, fare, get along, get by, make out, manage, muddle through, prosper, shift, succeed |
| Main Entry: | live |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exist |
| Synonyms: | abide, be, be alive, breathe, continue, draw breath, endure, get along, get by, have life, last, lead, maintain, make it, move, pass, persist, prevail, remain, remain alive, subsist, survive |
| Antonyms: | cease, depart, die |
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