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get onto
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb get onto has 1 sense
- get onto(v = verb.cognition) catch on, cotton on, get it, get wise, latch on, tumble, twig - understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on" is one way to apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
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