GET USED TO

 Dictionary entry overview: What does get used to mean? 

• GET USED TO (verb)
  The verb GET USED TO has 1 sense:

1. get or become familiar or accustomed with through experience

  Familiarity information: GET USED TO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET USED TO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get or become familiar or accustomed with through experience

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

I finally got used to my husband's odd habits

Hypernyms (to "get used to" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get used to"):

adapt; adjust; conform (adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

You’ll get used to such things in time.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"When I get used to my brains I shall know everything."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

But once get used to these slight blemishes and nothing could be more complete, for good sense and good taste had presided over the furnishing, and the result was highly satisfactory.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Very soon you seemed to get used to me: I believe you felt the existence of sympathy between you and your grim and cross master, Jane; for it was astonishing to see how quickly a certain pleasant ease tranquillised your manner: snarl as I would, you showed no surprise, fear, annoyance, or displeasure at my moroseness; you watched me, and now and then smiled at me with a simple yet sagacious grace I cannot describe.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Well, I needn't be a sour saint nor a selfish sinner, and, I dare say, old maids are very comfortable when they get used to it, but... and there Jo sighed, as if the prospect was not inviting.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He noticed my involuntary twitching and grimacing, and smirked: I only ’ope yer don’t ever ’ave to get used to such as that in this life, ’cos you’ve got a bloomin’ soft skin, that you ’ave, more like a lydy’s than any I know of.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)