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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
v.0.48: Get \Get\ (g[e^]t), v. i. 1. To make acquisition; to
gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased. [1913
Webster] We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get.
--Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To arrive at, or bring one's self
into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become;
-- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to
the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get
beaten; to get elected. [1913 Webster] To get rid of fools and
scoundrels. --Pope. [1913 Webster] His chariot wheels get hot by
driving fast. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] Note: It [get] gives
to the English language a middle voice, or a power of verbal
expression which is neither active nor passive. Thus we say to
get acquitted, beaten, confused, dressed. --Earle. [1913
Webster] Note: Get, as an intransitive verb, is used with a
following preposition, or adverb of mo