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Get going

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To leave, to depart, to get moving. intransitive

    "It is quite late, I'd best get going before sunset."

  2. 2
    start to be active wordnet
  3. 3
    To begin or commence. intransitive, transitive

    "We'd better get this project going. If we don't get going on it soon, we won't finish in time."

  4. 4
    begin or set in motion wordnet
  5. 5
    To excite intellectually. transitive

    "She got him going with all these stories, and then she'd leave him, and he'd be up all night trying to figure out the end."

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  1. 6
    To arouse sexually. transitive

    "During the preliminaries I, as usual, "got her going" by irritation of the clitoris, among other things."

  2. 7
    To talk passionately without interruption. intransitive

    "Once she got going about my wages and everything else she had to pay out. She couldn't keep the wolf from the door, she said."

  3. 8
    To cause someone to talk passionately without interruption. transitive

    "I got him going about the moon or stars, he would fall into that trap, he forgot about his questions and for hours talked to me about the universe."

  4. 9
    To cry or bawl loudly. intransitive

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