get past
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[edit]Verb
[edit]get past (third-person singular simple present gets past, present participle getting past, simple past got past, past participle (UK) got past or (US) gotten past)
- To continue around a blockage; to get around (something); to surpass something that is in the way.
- To cause something to get around a blockage; to cause to get around or surpass something that is in the way.
- (of a mistake) To pass by unnoticed by someone who would have the power to stop or correct it.
- He was an intelligent mathematician, and very few mistakes got past him in his works.
- (figurative, by extension) To get through a difficult time; to overcome a source of grief.
- Synonym: reach past
- (figurative, by extension) To cause someone to overcome a source of grief or get through a difficult time.