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obtain
Overview of verb obtain
The verb obtain has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (118) obtain -- (come into possession of; "How did you obtain the visa?")
2. (18) receive, get, find, obtain, incur -- (receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions")
3. (1) prevail, hold, obtain -- (be valid, applicable, or true; "This theory still holds")
Grep of noun obtain
obtainment
Antonyms of verb obtain
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb obtain
3 senses of obtain
Sense 1
obtain
=> get, acquire
Sense 2
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> change
Sense 3
prevail, hold, obtain
=> exist, be
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb obtain
2 of 3 senses of obtain
Sense 1
obtain
=> carry
=> excavate, dig up, turn up
=> extort, wring from
=> kite
=> source
=> procure, secure
=> extract
=> take out
=> get in, get into
=> eke out, squeeze out
=> mooch, bum, cadge, grub, sponge
=> derive, gain
=> shop
=> snag
=> grab
Sense 2
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> take
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb obtain
3 senses of obtain
Sense 1
obtain
=> get, acquire
Sense 2
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> change
Sense 3
prevail, hold, obtain
=> exist, be
'Cause To' of verb obtain
Derived Forms of verb obtain
1 of 3 senses of obtain
Sense 1
obtain
RELATED TO>(adj) obtainable#1
=> gettable, getable, obtainable, procurable
RELATED TO>(noun) obtention#1
=> obtainment, obtention
RELATED TO>(noun) obtainment#1
=> obtainment, obtention
Domain of verb obtain
Domain Terms of verb obtain
Familiarity of verb obtain
obtain used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb obtain
3 senses of obtain
Sense 1
obtain
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s something from somebody
Sense 2
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
*> Something ----s
Sense 3
prevail, hold, obtain
*> Something ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb obtain
3 senses of obtain
Sense 1
obtain
> get, acquire
=> isolate
=> win back, get back
=> press out, express, extract
=> capture, catch
=> come by
=> buy, purchase
=> lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take
=> receive, have
=> turn
=> buy
=> find
=> glom
=> enter upon, come upon, luck into
=> line up, get hold, come up, find
=> accept, take, have
=> obtain
=> recover, retrieve, find, regain
=> catch
=> recover, recoup, recuperate
=> reclaim, repossess
=> find, regain
=> acquire, win, gain
=> gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in
=> earn, garner
=> profit, gain, benefit
=> partake, share, partake in
=> preempt
=> preempt
=> collect, pick up, gather up, call for
=> inherit, come into
=> borrow
=> pick up
=> get
=> poll
Sense 2
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Sense 3
prevail, hold, obtain
> exist, be
=> come
=> preexist
=> kick around, knock about, kick about
=> coexist
=> prevail, hold, obtain
=> dwell, consist, lie, belong, lie in
=> endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, peril
=> flow
=> distribute
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb obtain
Sense 1
obtain
=> get, acquire
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Sense 2
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> change
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Sense 3
prevail, hold, obtain
=> exist, be
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Grep of verb obtain
obtain
Grep of adj obtain
obtainable
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