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List of antonyms from "getting a handle on something" to antonyms from "getting back feet"


Discover our 427 antonyms available for the terms "getting an eyeful of, getting at, getting away, getting along with" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.


Definition of the day : « getting around »

  • As in inveigle : verb entice, manipulate
  • As in negotiate : verb traverse, cross
  • As in overcome : verb beat, defeat
  • As in prevail upon/prevail on : verb persuade, influence
  • As in shirk : verb avoid, get out of responsibility
  • As in shun : verb avoid, ignore
  • As in sidestep : verb dodge
  • As in socialize : verb be friendly at gatherings
  • As in veer : verb change direction
  • As in weasel : verb avoid, evade
  • As in prevail on : verb persuade
  • As in bypass : verb avoid
  • As in cajole : verb attempt to coax; flatter
  • As in goldbrick : verb idle
  • As in circulate : verb flow
  • As in circumvent : verb fool, mislead
  • As in nationalize : verb socialize
  • As in deviate : verb stray from normal path
  • As in divert : verb take attention away
  • As in dodge : verb avoid
  • As in elude : verb avoid; escape
  • As in evade : verb get away from
  • As in foil : verb circumvent, nip in the bud
Example sentences :
  • There warn't no explaining it, but there it was and there warn't no getting around it.
  • Extract from : « Tom Sawyer Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • These might carry him away from the shore and prevent him from getting around the point.
  • Extract from : « An American Robinson Crusoe » by Samuel. B. Allison
  • The only hope he had of getting around them was to drive through this mud.
  • Extract from : « The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point » by Laura Lee Hope
  • It is mostly a matter of getting around to the more remote peoples.
  • Extract from : « Adaptation » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
  • Old Dutcher was a crank—there was no getting around that fact.
  • Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Well, there was no getting around the fact that he was in for a fight.
  • Extract from : « The Backwoodsmen » by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • It was the thing that would have happened, there was no getting around that.
  • Extract from : « A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • I never was so humiliated in my life, but there's no getting around the truth.
  • Extract from : « At Good Old Siwash » by George Fitch
  • I guess Tom Fairfield can find some plan for getting around it.
  • Extract from : « Tom Fairfield in Camp » by Allen Chapman
  • But the tradesmen are remarkably late about getting around in the morning.
  • Extract from : « One Irish Summer » by William Eleroy Curtis