- past participle of get.
gotten
Americanverb
verb
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a past participle of get
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(not usually in the infinitive)
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to have obtained
he had gotten a car for his 21st birthday
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to have become
I've gotten sick of your constant bickering
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Usage
See get.
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The waves could have gotten the vessel to oscillate back and forth, Sharpe said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
There is no end to the coverage of how difficult it is to afford a home and how challenging the real-estate market has gotten for sellers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Has Taylor Swift, a self-proclaimed “childless cat lady,” gotten a new dog?
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2026
Dimitri Semenikhin, a real-estate developer in Dubai, said he offloaded the majority of his $5 million stake in Stretch after deciding it had gotten too risky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
I was still trying to figure out how the monkeys had gotten out of my net when I heard a noise from the bur oak tree.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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