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Definition of Get well

1. Verb. Improve in health. "He got well fast"

Definition of Get well

1. Verb. (idiomatic) To recover from an illness or injury. ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic business) To recover from financial straits. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Get Well

Literary usage of Get well

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"He never said anything about hoping to get well." Another witness testified that he saw the decedent before the physician arrived; decedent "was mighty ..."

2. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"After dinner, Deane and I had great discourse again about my Lord Chancellor's timber, out of which I wish I may get well. llth. Comes Cocker, with my rule, ..."

3. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1866)
"Cases of sudden attack are in general more apt to get well than those in which the disease comes on slowly and insensibly. Relapses are said to be more ..."

4. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of by Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland (1843)
"... for he had seen a vision of his lost master, king James, in ihe night, who told him he would get well, but that he owed his health to his prayers, ..."

5. Memoir of William Francis Bartlett by Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1878)
"If I do not get well and fit for work speedily, why the sooner I am quietly " planted," the better Ever yours, FRANK BARTLETT. RICHMOND, VA., February 14, ..."

6. Lives of Eminent British Lawyers by Henry Roscoe (1841)
"... or that God hath given you all that you have, if you think wealth to be his gift, I mean that you get well, for I know sure the rest is not, ..."

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