GOT ROUND Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

got round

verb

past tense of get round

as in spread

to become known word got round that a movie star was spending the night at a local motel

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Recent Examples of got round At the end of last month, Trump finally got round to including Seth Meyers in his social media barrages against the comedians that regularly mock him. — Peter White, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025

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Mellencamp, 45, was initially diagnosed with melanoma that spread.

— Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Aug. 2026
But the war’s unintended consequences have spread far beyond the Middle East, affecting global security, diminishing America’s global standing, and potentially providing its adversaries with an opportunity to expand their influence.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of spread

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Soon afterward, the Ohio State Highway Patrol says the 20-year-old got out of his Toyota Avalon on the shoulder of Interstate 70 and stepped into westbound lanes of traffic.

— Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026
Adames also committed an error on a routine grounder in the bottom of the seventh that could’ve spelled disaster, but Houser got out of the inning unscathed.

— Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of got out

Verb

A week after losing 49-35 to Batavia, Maine South came out strong in all three phases of the game.

— Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026
The discovery came out of a community science project in the Chiricahuas, in which researchers detected bat DNA in homeowners’ hummingbird feeders.

— Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of came out

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When word got around this week that the North Collins Street restaurant might be closing after 37 years, friends rallied around Airways and gave it a business boost to keep it around through Dallas Cowboys football season.

— Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Sep. 2026
The gender data gap did not close because medicine finally got around to it.

— Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

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