Synonyms for get across
get across

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1. get across, put oververb

   communicate successfully

   "I couldn't get across the message"; "He put over the idea very well"

   Synonyms:
   table, click, put over, penetrate, dawn, hold over, cover, get through, cut across, sink in, come home, defer, track, remit, pass over, cross, postpone, fall into place, cut through, prorogue, shelve, put off, get over, set back, traverse

2. click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into placeverb

   become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

   "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"

   Synonyms:
   pass over, put over, get over, flick, wrap up, come through, percolate, contact, pervade, cut across, infiltrate, bottom, snap, finish up, tick, reach, interpenetrate, permeate, get hold of, finish off, polish off, penetrate, cut through, mop up, fall into place, cluck, filter, come home, while away, perforate, traverse, dawn, click, diffuse, sink in, clear up, cover, cross, riddle, fathom, chatter, imbue, get through, track, clack

3. traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut acrossverb

   travel across or pass over

   "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"

   Synonyms:
   pass across, sweep, chase after, overcompensate, handle, cut through, deal, shroud, continue, come home, span, comprehend, embrace, hybridize, interbreed, encompass, cut across, address, give chase, get over, spoil, get well, surmount, go after, crosscut, pass through, plow, skip over, intersect, put over, tail, insure, brood, foil, penetrate, tag, master, trail, get through, click, report, transit, wipe, hide, frustrate, sink in, scotch, bounce back, overcome, compensate, cross, breed, traverse, underwrite, chase, move through, subdue, baffle, pass over, spread over, enshroud, jump, overlay, skip, overfly, track, cover, extend, wrap up, cover up, deny, incubate, crossbreed, dawn, thwart, bilk, treat, hybridise, dog, hatch, fall into place

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1. Peter Wallace:

   In the last month there's been a huge increase -- there's been about 120 people or so that have claimed they've come from Iran, they were trying to get across in dinghies and before they were trying to get through the tunnel or in the back of lorries, but it's been this huge change in the last month with over 100 people, including little tiny children, trying to get across the whole Channel in little tiny boats.

2. Todd Abel:

   They were very successful until early this morning, it did get across 77. We did... get aircraft in the air, and to try to catch this, what we call a slop over. It slopped over our containment line.

3. Kevin Bowcutt:

   When you look at the problem of getting from Point A to Point B anywhere in the world, the question is how fast do you want to go and how fast is fast enough? supersonic isn’t really fast enough to go overseas and back in one day. For the business traveler or the military, where time is really important, that’s an interesting point. Mach 5 is where you can do that. You can get across the Atlantic in about 2 hours and across the Pacific in about 3 hours.

4. Amy Vanderbilt:

   Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

5. Ross Reuter:

   It's real dangerous, motorists get out into the swift water, thinking they can get across and it ends up being deeper than they think.