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get-well
[ get-wel ]
adjective
- conveying wishes for one's recovery, as from an illness:
a get-well card.
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Idioms and Phrases
Recover from illness, as in I hope you get well soon . This idiom uses well in the sense of “in good health,” a usage dating from the mid-1500s.Discover More
Example Sentences
Mail the elementary school classroom get-well cards, bring on the casseroles, plant the flowers in the yard.
There is yet another close resemblance between the get-rich-quick and the get-well-quick systems.
In the same way, the get-well-quick practitioner profits from the conquests of material science.
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