GET WELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does get well mean? 

• GET WELL (verb)
  The verb GET WELL has 1 sense:

1. improve in health

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET WELL (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Improve in health

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bounce back; get over; get well

Context example:

He got well fast

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

ameliorate; better; improve; meliorate (get better)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

get worse (deteriorate in health)

 Context examples 

What I needed was rest, if it were ever to get well. Rest! I never before knew the meaning of the word.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"In life little girl die or get well. Something happen in life. In picture nothing happen. No, I do not understand pictures."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Ah, see now,” said she, “how they have bruised and wounded those poor trees; they will never get well.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Get well—and return to us.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

So you must make haste to get well, my dear.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If Jane does not get well soon, we will call in Mr. Perry.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"Amy is left for him, and they would suit excellently, but I have no heart for such things, now. I don't care what becomes of anybody but you, Beth. You must get well."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

From my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference between Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a motive for wishing to get well: a change seemed near,—I desired and waited it in silence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When John Thornton froze his feet in the previous December his partners had made him comfortable and left him to get well, going on themselves up the river to get out a raft of saw-logs for Dawson.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Poor Mr. Norris's indifferent state of health made it an impossibility: he could no more bear the noise of a child than he could fly; if, indeed, he should ever get well of his gouty complaints, it would be a different matter: she should then be glad to take her turn, and think nothing of the inconvenience; but just now, poor Mr. Norris took up every moment of her time, and the very mention of such a thing she was sure would distract him.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)