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get on

v. grow late or (of time) elapse; "It is getting on midnight--let's all go to bed!"

get on, be on

v. appear in a show, on T.V. or radio; "The news won't be on tonight"

board, get on

v. get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.)

get along with, get on with, get on, get along

v. have smooth relations; "My boss and I get along very well"

age, get on, get old

v. begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast"

progress, come on, come along, advance, get on, get along, shape up

v. develop in a positive way; "He progressed well in school"; "My plants are coming along"; "Plans are shaping up"

hop on, mount, mount up, get on, jump on, climb on, bestride

v. get up on the back of; "mount a horse"

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proceed, go

v. follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?"

move, go

v. have a turn; make one's move in a game; "Can I go now?"

move, go, run

v. progress by being changed; "The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting"

go, proceed, move

v. follow a procedure or take a course; "We should go farther in this matter"; "She went through a lot of trouble"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels"

travel, go, move, locomote

v. change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"

advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on

v. move forward, also in the metaphorical sense; "Time marches on"

grow

v. become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain; "The problem grew too large for me"; "Her business grew fast"

diffuse, spread, spread out, fan out

v. move outward; "The soldiers fanned out"

rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent

v. bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"

install, instal, put in, set up

v. set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink"

put, set, place, pose, position, lay

v. put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"

gyrate, spiral, coil

v. to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"

resurrect, rise, uprise

v. return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise"

twirl, swirl, twiddle, whirl

v. turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"

eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl

v. flow in a circular current, of liquids

twine

v. make by twisting together or intertwining; "twine a rope"

whirl, birl, spin, twirl

v. cause to spin; "spin a coin"

corkscrew, spiral

v. move in a spiral or zigzag course

hop, skip, hop-skip

v. jump lightly

jump, leap, jump off

v. jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre"

climb, climb up, mount, go up

v. go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"

get off

v. leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.

disembark, debark, set down

v. go ashore; "The passengers disembarked at Southampton"

rejuvenate

v. become young again; "The old man rejuvenated when he became a grandfather"

regress, retrograde, retrogress

v. get worse or fall back to a previous condition

hop out, get off

v. get out of quickly; "The officer hopped out when he spotted an illegally parked car"

take out, move out, remove

v. cause to leave; "The teacher took the children out of the classroom"

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