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GET WELL
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Improve in health
Example:
He got well fast
Synonyms:
bounce back; get over; get well
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "get well" is one way to...):
ameliorate; better; improve; meliorate (get better)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
get worse (deteriorate in health)
Context examples:
Except to get well again, Dora.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You will repay me entirely if you do not discompose yourself, but get well as fast as you can; and since you appear in such good spirits, I may speak to you on one subject, may I not?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
For a little while you will perhaps be as you are now,—a very little while; and then you will turn cool; and then you will be capricious; and then you will be stern, and I shall have much ado to please you: but when you get well used to me, you will perhaps like me again,—like me, I say, not love me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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