get through

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

1. informaltransitiveTo overcome; to endure.

   Military training was hard, but I got through it.

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   But, while the others took weeks - hell, even months - to get used to everything, myself included, you found your footing in a matter of days. And not just that - you've also become someone they can trust, even if they don't seem receptive. It's times like these they're gonna need someone like that the most. You're very strong, Pomni. And I know you'll be able to get through this.

   2026 June 19, Gooseworx, “Remember” (5:06 from the start), in The Amazing Digital Circus, episode 9, spoken by Kinger (Sean Chiplock)

2. informaltransitiveTo complete; to finish.

   She got through her book this morning!

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

3. informaltransitiveTo use up; to expend.

   Near-synonyms: burn through, run through

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   With near-daily trips to Houston and back, he really gets through a lot of fuel in one month.

   Synonyms: burn through, run through

4. informalintransitiveTo reach its destination.

   Switch to bank 2 tab to see if money got through, it has timed out.

   2022 July 15, Jeff Gaines, “How To...”, in uk.people.silversurfers (Usenet)

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   The earliest arrival was able to ameliorate the lot of the other, especially as he was the lucky recipient of no less than thirteen parcels of comforts and food. So you see, O women of little faith, parcels are getting through to our brave lads.

   1917 August 23, Clio [pseudonym], “The Ladies Letter”, in Punch, volume CXXVII, number 3239, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 310, column 2

   My ISP offers filtering through Postini but lately there's a lot of stuff getting through even with the most aggressive filter settings.

   2003 February 25, Mike59Lark, “SPAM (OT)”, in alt.autos.studebaker (Usenet)

5. informalintransitivetransitiveTo communicate successfully across a barrier; to make contact, or get one's point across; to reach the addressee, possibly with difficulty.

   Near-synonym: get across

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

   He was such a dyed-in-the-wool partisan that I just couldn't get it through his skull.

   "You bloody fools!" shrieked Nickle, stung by a sudden dreadful inspiration, "we've let him phone. He has got through!"

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London

   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) […]

   1920, Margot Asquith, An Autobiography

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

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

   Synonyms: patch, get across