get through

get through

English

Verb

get through (third-person singular simple present gets through, present participle getting through, simple past got through, past participle (UK) got through or (US) gotten through)

1. To overcome; to endure.

   Military training was hard, but I got through it.

2. To complete; to finish.

   She got through her book this morning!

   I was so thirsty that I got through three glasses of orange juice.

   He was such a dyed-in-the-wool partisan that I just couldn't get through to him and change his mind.

3. To communicate successfully; to make contact, or get one's point across.
   • 1920, Margot Asquith, An Autobiography:

     My father had a horror of girls' schools (and if he could “get through”—to use the orthodox expression of the spookists—he would find all his opinions on this subject more than justified by the manners, morals and learning of the young ladies of the present day) […]

   • 1976, Paddy Chayefsky, Network, spoken by Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty):

     And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU… WILL… ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

4. (of communication) To be made successfully; to reach the addressee.

   The call wouldn't get through no matter how many times I tried.

Translations

to overcome

Chinese: Mandarin: 度過 (zh) (dùguò) Finnish: selviytyä (fi), suoriutua (fi) French: franchir (fr) Italian: superare (it), farcela (it)

to make contact by telephone

Ukrainian: додзво́нюватися impf (dodzvónjuvatysja), додзвони́тися pf (dodzvonýtysja)

See also

• go through
• live through