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Meanings of get at in English

Portuguese
importunar
Catalan
amoïnar
Spanish
provocar

To make someone rather angry or impatient; to cause annoyance.

      importunar
      Portuguese
      acessar
      Spanish
      acceder

      Reach or gain access to.

            acessar
            Usage of get at in English
            1
            Hektor just needed to figure out a way to get at it.
            The unincorporated man
            2
            Why can't Chief Holland get at them that way, without involving me?'
            61 hours
            3
            They must get at the truth; they must crush out the insurrection.
            The Rebel of the School
            4
            Xavier would take all the help he could get at this point.
            Once bitten, twice dead
            5
            The ones you get at Target don't work anywhere near as well.
            NY Magazine
            6
            I get at least a dozen prospective reporters a year through here.
            In every heartbeat
            7
            Easily; if I can get at the means of establishing a defence.
            Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks / Book Number Fifteen...
            8
            Harder for Locust to get at them when they put to sea.
            Aspho Fields
            9
            It can't get at this underlying value, this thing that people want.
            Wired
            10
            She was trying to get at it now in the narrow pew.
            Women of the Country
            11
            The warrior who had brought them said, We can't get at them.
            Brisingr
            12
            The struggles of the mule rendered it dangerous to get at him.
            Tracks of a Rolling Stone
            13
            These three spies took pains to get at Kah-kwah-ka in the night.
            Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, a...
            14
            Or, more likely, jumping over each other to get at the opportunity.
            The Disposable Male
            15
            He did not know how to get at the little red animal.
            Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's
            16
            It is likely the PIABA's last chance to get at the records.
            Reuters
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            Translations for get at
            Get at through the time
            Get at across language varieties
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            Common
            United States of America
            Common
            South Africa
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