get better

verb

To improve.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person gets better · participle present getting better · past got better · UK participle past got better · US participle past gotten better

  1. intransitiveliterallyTo improve.
  2. idiomaticintransitiveTo recover from illness or other incapacitation.

    I wrote a song about getting better / It's a feeling I can't remember / Arf, arf / Counting worms

    2016 September 16, “Counting Worms”, in Laugh Tracks (Hardcore Punk, Metalcore), performed by Knocked Loose
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    [Sir Bedevere]: What makes you think she's a witch? [Peasant]: Well, she turned me into a newt! [Sir Bedevere]: A newt? [Peasant]: ... I got better.

    1975 from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Wikiquote)

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
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Cite this entry
APA

get better. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20better

MLA

“get better.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20better. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “get better,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20better.

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