getting

getting
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [The act of procuring]
Syn. taking, obtaining, gaining, grasping, catching, earning, winning, seizing, clutching, pursuing, securing, capturing, mastering, possessing oneself of, confiscating, appropriating, assimiLating, seeking out, snatching.
Ant. losing*, giving up, abandoning.
2. [The act of changing]
Syn. succumbing, growing, becoming, altering, accepting, submitting to, being subjected to.
Ant. refusal*, rejecting, throwing off.

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