"get up to" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: gets up to [present, singular, third-person], getting up to [participle, present], got up to [past], got up to [UK, participle, past], gotten up to [US, participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> up to|head=get up to}} get up to (third-person singular simple present gets up to, present participle getting up to, simple past got up to, past participle (UK) got up to or (US) gotten up to)
  1. To do something, especially something that is forbidden or improper. Related terms: up to Translations (to do something, especially something that you should not do): cométrer (Catalan), (Chinese Mandarin), (gàn) (Chinese Mandarin), (zuò) (Chinese Mandarin), 搞出 (gǎochū) (Chinese Mandarin), 弄出 (nòngchū) (Chinese Mandarin), ryhtyä (Finnish), touhuta (Finnish), commettre (French), cometer (Galician), begehen (German), commettere (Italian), kombinować [imperfective] (Polish), вытворя́ть (vytvorjátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), вы́творить (výtvoritʹ) [perfective] (Russian), cometer (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
          "word": "cométrer"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
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          "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
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          "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
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          "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
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          "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
      "word": "cométrer"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
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      "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
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      "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
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      "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
      "word": "搞出"
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      "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
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      "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
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      "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
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      "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
      "word": "commettre"
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      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
      "word": "cometer"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
      "word": "begehen"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
      "word": "commettere"
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      "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
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      "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
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      "sense": "to do something, especially something that you should not do",
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