phrasal verb · neutral
get out
/ɡet aʊt/GET·OUT
speaking
leave a place; become known (information); or be used as an exclamation to tell someone to leave
Examples
“We need to get out of the house before it floods.”
“News got out that he was leaving the company.”
“Get out! You're being ridiculous.”
Band 8 sentence
“When the concert grew chaotic, security told everyone to get out immediately.”
Collocations
- get out of the house
- news got out
- get out of doing something
Word family
get out (v) verbgot out (past) verbgetting out (v-ing) verb
Common mistakes
get out of the car with→get out of the car
news get out→news got out
Say it for a higher band
5leave→6escape→7+get out
Synonyms
leave
escape
Easily confused
get off
“I get off the bus at the next stop.”
get away
“We managed to get away for a weekend.”
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