get across
v 1: communicate successfully; "I couldn't get across the
message"; "He put over the idea very well" [syn: put
over]
2: become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It
dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was
penetrated with sorrow" [syn: click, get through, dawn,
come home, sink in, penetrate, fall into place]
3: travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100
miles each day" [syn: traverse, track, cover, cross,
pass over, get over, cut through, cut across]
WordNet (r) 2.0
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "get across":
assail the ear, be glimpsed, be heard, broadcast, caress the ear,
clarify, come through, communicate, contact, convey, dawn on,
disseminate, elucidate, explain, explicate, gain a hearing,
get over, get through to, get to, give, give word, hand on, impart,
leave word, make an impression, make clear, make it clear,
make known, make oneself heard, pass, pass along, pass on,
penetrate, popularize, put across, put over, reach, reach the ear,
register, render, report, send, send word, share, share with,
signal, simplify, sink in, soak in, spell out, tell, transfer,
transmit, vulgarize
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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