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🚪 To leave 🗝️ To remove 🙈 To avoid blame 🗣️ To say with effort 📰 To become known
to get out

to get out

434 3.8
Say something with difficulty because you feel nervous or upset
  • phrasal verb
  • /ɡɛt aʊt/
translation icon : lograr decir
  • He found it difficult to get the excuses out when confronted about his tardiness.

And so one of the techniques I use is to, to get those out onto the page.

Examples

  • What I want kids to get out of our PE program is an enjoyment of being active.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Moussaoui started talking faster, trying to get the words out before he was shut down.

    Academic text (2007)

  • So there are ways to get yourself out of talking.

  • Later, Cook began thinking about how to get the information out to other states.

    Academic text (1998)

  • So it's really hard for me to get out of that habit.

  • After struggling with her emotions, she finally managed to get the truth out about what happened.

  • During the interview, she took a deep breath to get her thoughts out clearly.

Synonyms

to let out
vsto get out
50 3.1

Make a sound like a laugh, cry, or sigh

expresses words with difficulty and deliberate effort rather than spontaneously
to squeeze out
vsto get out
2 4.9

To get something with great effort

conveys words or ideas through speech rather than producing objects

Antonyms

to conceal
282 3.7

To hide something so others cannot see or find it

to suppress
88 5.8

To hold back feelings or reactions

How Easily

to say
∞ 1.0
to blurt out
  • Informal
42 3.9
to mumble
103 4.9
to get out
434 3.8
to stammer
26 4.8

Surface Forms

get out infinitive
getting out present participle
gets out third person singular
got out past
got out past participle

Morphology

get + out

The sense 'to become known' is directly derivable from combining 'get' (to come to a state/arrive) with 'out' (into the open/public). This particle-verb composition (information getting 'out' into the public) is a transparent, cross-linguistically common metaphor, so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer the meaning.

Etymology

Get out, literally get and out, may come from the image of forcing a word out of your mouth, like pushing a small object through a narrow hole when it is hard to move. So it means 'to say or express something with difficulty or effort'.